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		crucini on Nov 13, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week Google keeps amazing me. Chrome OS could mean many different things, but if it really means a polished, complete OS it will have huge impact. We have brilliant manufacturers like Asus creating cool netbooks. But they can't really compete with Apple because they don't have a world-class OS. And making such an OS is an enormous project. They have Windows and Linux. Linux is great on servers. Linux is great on my workstations. But OSX outshines it greatly in completeness and polish. This could ignite a wave of competition and innovation. Asus should be very excited. Apple should be nervous.

cpr on Nov 14, 2009 [–]

Everything points to Chrome OS just being a Linux distro with a custom window manager tied to the Chrome browser with all apps "in the cloud"--nothing else.

Not exactly a Mac OS X competitor, but a nice addition to our options.

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