Posted on 12/09/2010 6:22:50 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Stop worrying about when the hard drive in your computer will die. Google wants to kill it permanently anyway.
The new Google Chrome operating system, which was unveiled Tuesday, as well as hints and suggestions from Apple and Microsoft, offers us a preview of the PC of the future. And it will come without that familiar whirring disk that has been the data heart of the PC for the past 25 years.
The Chrome OS will at first be available on all-black laptops from Samsung and Acer. And because the new platform stores everything -- files, applications, data bits and bytes, literally everything -- on online servers rather than on your home or office PC, those new PCs running it won't require gobs of storage. In fact, they won't require any storage at all.
The new Google laptops come without hard drives, in other words.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Applied to try one out But because I’m a blogger they’re not likely to select me.
Really. What little privacy and security one has, as it is, would disappear.
Yeah... the external drive market will explode...
I bought a new 250GB hard drive for my laptop, $89.
All your base (input) belong to me.
no thank you, I like having MY files where I am and my handy memory card. This would end up letting government look at everything you do.
So, they are still pushing that centralized control of our data. No thanks.
Ditto’s on the NO THANKS!
Just the thought sends shivers down my spine. The Nanny Statists would have a field day.
Then be at the mercy of Google’s censor bots.
Fast forward 30 years into the future....Will the Information Police be charging people with the crime of “harboring a data storage device”?
Sounds like another way to get all of your info.
I was hoping it was a new solid state high capacity memory chip. This news is about something that can be hacked.
and if your internet connection is interrupted? How will your computer work?
So, they’ll no longer need to track your internet habits, because, they’ll already have all of it on their drives.
And, you won’t have to worry about “cookies” on your computer since there wont’ be a need for them, and “scripts” won’t be necessary on your computer since, all the scripting will be done at Google or Microsoft or wherever.
Then, when your internet connection goes down you won’t have a need to “compute” locally because, you won’t have a real computer to compute with and you won’t have any data to compute against.
That’s so awfully nice of Google to take care of everything for us.
Sounds like a dumb terminal.
Like I (or any other rational person) wants to "Trust" an outside source with all your personal data and info?
They can have it right after they get my weapons!
Google = government spies.
I had a feeling this was going to happen when I saw the OnLive demo (as sucky as it is). They dont want you owning your own mp3s, isos, docs...they want to scan everything and deliver targeted ads to you. That is after all how Google makes its dinner.
Just insert your hand sir to login..
In many ways, wer a re moving backwards.
We have the capacity for ultra cheap storage, yet many opt for “cloud” computing and placing their data in the ether.
We are highly intelligent creatures with evolved communication skills, yet are limiting our speech to 160 characters at a time. (Twitter)
The more I observe modern life, the more out of place I feel.
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