Chrome OS - A Lightweight Contender

Google Chrome OS

Google’s foray into web browsing with Chrome in late 2008 didn’t exactly whip the internet into a manic frenzy. Firing up the compact browser for the first time may have left many users wondering what was so special about it. With its compact, clean, and sleek design, the no-frills Chrome had the upside of balancing complex web applications and faster browsing without compromising user experience.

And with that in mind, Google most recently announced what they call a natural extenson of Chrome — a lightweight, open source operating system targeted specifically at netbooks. Google refers to Chrome OS as their “attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” Perhaps having taken a long look at netbooks and their sudden and recent rise in popularity just this past year, Google saw the perfect opportunity make a certain kind of a splash in the operating system as they did with the web browser.

With a line as slick as calling current operating systems built “at a time when there was no web,” Google’s attempt to complement and improve netbooks that currently run on the rather under-powered Intel Atom processor (with either Linux or Windows XP as the only oeprating systems available) is an admirable one, if nothing more than to capitalize on an uncompetitive niche. So what does Chrome OS mean to the average buyer looking to get their hands on a netbook?
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