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    First Google Chromium OS laptop goes on sale

    By Hunter Skipworth | Pocket-lint – Fri, Jun 3, 2011

    Google's Chromium OS has materialised on the Kogan Agora, priced in at just £269, it becomes the first piece of hardware to ship with the operating system.

    Somewhat confusingly Chromium OS is the open source development version of Google's Chrome OS. Being open source means it is a constant work in progress, so expect the odd bug.

    The Kogan Agora is powered by a 1.30 Intel Celeron M and boasting 1GB of RAM, with a 30GB solid state drive for local storage. Chromium OS is based entirely on the cloud so don't expect to be storing many documents locally, do however consider investing in a MiFi if you want to keep working on the go.

    Despite being little more than a web browser, the Kogan Agora is only reported to manage about 3.5 hours of battery when not being charged. The laptop also has a webcam, 12" display and weighs just 1.32 kg. Portable then.

    Pocket-lint spent 7 days living entirely in the cloud last week, using nothing but a Chrome OS laptop to work with. To clarify, Chromium is a piece of development software and not released officially by Google. Chrome OS however is that which we will see shipping with the Google stamp of approval on laptops made by Samsung and Acer. Confusing, eh?




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    3 comments

    • Yapoo!
      Yapoo!  •  11 months ago
      BAAAAD Bad laptop. Dont buy into this "cloud computing" that google visualises will be the only source of computing in the future.

      You can forget about security, yeah google pushes them to be secure as its all on the web you cant get viruses but then people will focus more on getting your google ID and password with phishing. Once they gain acess to your password they have access to ALL your files and other saved banking and paypal logins and they dont even need to get access to your computer to do it!

      Another thing, if for example the government or police want to look at your files for any reason, you can forget hiding your computer. that little agreement you sign when you make your google account means that google and whoever has the right to look at your data whenever they feel like it!.

      Welcome to the dumbing down of the computers and even more so, humans.
      • FC360
        FC360 11 months ago
        That's called being paranoid. What's so different between the cloud and your computer? When you turn on your computer you type in a username and password, or not if you don't have 1 setup. With the cloud you go to a website and login with a username and password. The cloud is as secure as the user makes it, if you choose a really easy to figure out password then it's less secure then a really difficult and random password, same as on a computer to login.

        How is it dumbing down a computer and humans? That statement makes no sense, I would say it is infact making computers and humans smarter as the computer is learning to primarily communicate with other computers and servers which windows, mac and linux computers don't primarily do.
      • FC360
        FC360 11 months ago
        That's called being paranoid. What's so different between the cloud and your computer? When you turn on your computer you type in a username and password, or not if you don't have 1 setup. With the cloud you go to a website and login with a username and password. The cloud is as secure as the user makes it, if you choose a really easy to figure out password then it's less secure then a really difficult and random password, same as on a computer to login.

        How is it dumbing down a computer and humans? That statement makes no sense, I would say it is infact making computers and humans smarter as the computer is learning to primarily communicate with other computers and servers which windows, mac and linux computers don't primarily do.
    • Stealth
      Stealth  •  11 months ago
      I totally agree with the bloke that is concerned about security, having all your files stored on the internet is a bad idea at best google will keep check on all your files and websites you have visited and ram adverts down you throat aimed at what it thinks you might like, at worst allow total access by governments to your files, we are already spy on enough already, your best off buying your self an external hard drive and doing the back ups regularly your self.
    • FC360
      FC360  •  11 months ago
      I like the idea of having stuff stored on a server however I don't want to just use the cloud, I want to be able to have everything on the hard drive and then upload/backup the stuff to the cloud so if my computer is stolen, lost or breaks I can download the stuff so I don't loose anything. The only problem with the cloud is bandwidth, at the moment the bandwidth just isn't there as internet speeds aren't that good, as soon as they are fast enough I can see cloud computering really taking off
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