Chrome OS Notebooks Has Subscription Fee?

[WR2]

may aswell just rent a laptop and update when its obsolete.

Lots of businesses lease their hardware.

 

[Silly Boots]

The people who are going to be using a Chrome OS do not need hardware insurance and updates made for them. They're going to be knowledgable computer users, not people who need things done for them. Let's be honest, those people have already probably gotten a Mac anyway.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

"Knowledgable" computer users don't get Macs because their knowledge tells them Mac hardware sucks =)

 

[penguinpaul]

I don't like the idea of all of this cloud based stuff - so if I get one, and I'm out of 3g signal... then what? 😵

 

[reggieray]

[citation][nom]WR2[/nom]There has to be more to this story.Like Google rolling out some premium services that run on the Chrome netbooks and tablets?Otherwise isn't this buying hardware on an installment plan? At least that is what it sounds like to me. After all if you purchase the hardware outright there are no subscription fees.[/citation]
Really, I have the same thing and have no problems, about the same as XP on it, dual booted.

 

[Djhg2000]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]XP SP 2 on netbooks FTW! =)[/citation]

Unless you really meant SP 3 I bet every hacker around agrees with you 😛

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

No, I meant SP 2. SP 3 is good too, but brings a lot of unnecessary crap such as WMP 10 (or is it 11?), while I think 9 was the best of all. Well, at least it let me downgrade WMP =)

Windows 7 is another attractive alternative for netbooks, since XP doesn't support nVidia Optimus. I guess, in the end it all depends on your hardware =) If you have a gaming rig, use 7, if you have a netbook - XP for older models, 7 for newer ones.

BUT there's no place for cloud computing on ANY hardware, until we all get 24/7 free 1 Gbps+ Internet access. And even then, I'd keep my stuff on my HDD, since I don't see a reason why it should be anywhere on the net.

And what's that bit about hackers? I do nothing evil with my netbook, apart from leeching my friends' Wi-Fi sometimes =) Unless you mean a *primary* meaning of the word "hacker", which is by now forgotten and used to mean simply a power-user of some kind.

 

[Guest]

If the $10 or $20 includes unlimited 3G, a laptop, automatically getting a new one whenever a new model comes out, plus new laptop automatically if I break the one I have, then that would be a good deal, I think. We'll see if it really happens that way...but if so, I think this will be very popular.