Google Chrome OS Netbooks to be $300 to $400

[victomofreality]

[citation][nom]mianmian[/nom]Maybe not. Google can collect money in other ways. Such like google account upgrade, payed services.. cloud computing fee.....[/citation]

Exactly and thats not even looking at the cash they'll get for selling you the hardware devices that run Chrome OS. While the netbooks won't have a software tax on them you know theres still going to be a piece of the pie that goes to them.

 

[gsacks]

Do the masses understand that Chrome is a Linux OS heavily dependent on "cloud" computing? At least that is what it was started as.

 

[Marco925]

Wouldn't these things cost just as much as a fully featured Windows Netbook? and with Chrome OS, it's nothing but cloud computing... it doesn't sound like a good deal.

 

[zoemayne]

"but in our case Chrome OS and Android are free so there is no software tax associated with all of this."

FFS read the entire article.

FYI i read the article and followed the links and that quote there doesnt mean its free. Generally there is no hardware costs to create software so of course that "tax" isnt there.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

[citation][nom]triculious[/nom]no... this time it's a good question...how many games will I be able to run without any hassle?I don't want to have to run this app, which in turn enables this other one which emulates windows (or runs windows under this OS) in order to be able to play a game... an actual game, not solitaire or facebook gamesmost probably that's out of the question given that they intend to use the OS for netbooks, so I think it should handle net surfing and video reproduction as it's most amazing features[/citation]

It will probably support flash games at best, but gaming is not the main audience for the devices. Windows 7 is great right now (for gaming), so I would not change it even if there was another option. I use Linux for any other task, so in that sense, I already have the promising OS.

 

[guid_aaa000001]

This might cause price reduction of Windows in future, which is good.