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 ...
Google Chrome OS is cool. The version released on the new devices takes the browser metaphor to the limits. All you need is in Google - or so the company hopes.
“Maybe the point is:”
Maybe the point is Google doesn’t consider anything you do private.
Interesting to see you think big companies never lose data, have it stolen, or forget to do backups.
My laptop is useful even if I don’t have an internet connection. Would this work without an internet connection?
Throughput on a standard internet connection would be significantly slower for any applications which require larges amounts of data.
What a great idea....until the first data center gets hacked (you'll know which one is the first to be hacked--it's the one touted as "unhackable").
And how long do you think it’ll be until it’s mandatory?
3... 2... 1...
Uh, gee, my hard drive is more reliable, and has much faster throughput, than my internet access.
Why would I want to wait 30 seconds for a high resolution photo to upload? What do I do when I have 100 such photos to upload from my camera?
Cloud storage is good for some things, but not my entire frikkin’ hard drive!
I like being able to access my files while I am offline, like when the ISP craps out on me.
Difference between carbonite and google is carbonite encrypts using your key
Google has full access to your data.
Britain has already outlawed encrypted files unless you hand over the password.
If you only have the browser and online applications, its significantly fast than application on a traditional desktop OS. You can get to work almost right away - as soon as the browser loads up. And its all saved online. if you want to save it to a USB thumb drive, you can.
I don’t doubt that routine scans by government will be mandatory if they aren’t already.
SOmeone needs to create a heavy encryption version of Linux.
Guess I'll have to dust off the old VT100.
‘supboena ‘ whats that?
>> And because the new platform stores everything — files, applications, data bits and bytes, literally everything — on online servers
It’ll be a cold day in Hell when I trust google with my data.
But I agree the future is sans hard drives — because solid-state storage will supplant them.
Just like the Titanic was unsinkable.
and your Cloud will rain on your search request when it conflicts with their ideology...
Data is data, if they are using a citrix like technology then it would lower the data requirements.
Start thinking days to transfer those big files.
More like,
“Hey, how come you don’t have a computer?....well, come out back to the orchard / vineyard / garden and let’s talk about how life should be.”
“Let’s start with the Father, why don’t we...”
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
The whole subject is considerably more complicated than a simple news piece makes it look.
There is a real herd mentality among those reporting changes in technology and information management. Be interesting to go over the last 30 years and compile a list of off the mark predictions.
Like they don’t anyway.
I'm in this business. "Cloud Computing" is the big buzz word a new thing in IT.
However, most businesses are opting for the "local cloud" solution (virtualization with servers in their own datacenter) and everyday folks like US wouldn't dream of putting the only copy of their PERSONAL data online.
Fail. Fail. Fail.
Google, Amazon et al have built a bridge too far.
In the business space, if not a local cloud...they go with very specific Service Level Agreements...specifying where all back-ups go (either to the home datacenter or a back-up system in ANOTHER provider's datacenter) and very specific requirements around data security.
Google and the big "cloud" companies do do custom solutions, one's that actually meet customer's fiduciary and regulatory requirements.
Remember ISDN? This is the computing equivalent.
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