[citation][nom]Uncle Meat[/nom]If you think that Chrome OS is in any way competition for Mac OS X, then you have no idea what you are talking about.[/citation]If you don't think Chrome OS is in any way a competition for let alone Mac OS X but also all preexisting OS, you're in denial. If the computing model doesn't go to just turn on computer, OS boot instantly-ish, immediate connection to internet, gadget/widgets grab necessary information, and woila... then you might be right. The odds of it are you won't be right. This is cloud computing.
But fortunately, American internet connection sucks due to the monopolies sitting on their asses all day thinking about how much more blood they could suck out their customers while buying off politicians, it's going to be a while before broadband is capable of doing things the way we envision it, like in Star Trek...
Places like Japan with their basic 100M internet connection, however, could show us cloud computing in its full glory.