iLOVENZB
11-21-2011, 01:06 PM
Just watched the full hour or so of the 2011 Google I/O conference and the mentioned Chromebooks. Now I've only looked at them briefly before watching the conference and have to say I'm not exactly sold on the concept.
Sundar Pichai mentioned there will be no need to worry about virus protection, as if the Developers sitting there forgot about the Chinese security risk this year (http://news.priyo.com/tech/2011/06/05/gmail-hacking-hotmail-and-yaho-28030.html) He also mentioned that by default all data is encrypted. Now Google may not be Sony but leaving everything on the cloud is in fact still a risk.
Anyway, I'm getting a little offtopic. Basically the Chromebook is a brick that connects to the internet to perform basic functions. Basically it's just sooped up version of Chrome.
During the demo, it appears that you couldn't really do ANYTHING without uploading it to the cloud :mellow: Must suck for countries with data caps :frusty:
btw video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYND_zvIc0
Sundar Pichai mentioned there will be no need to worry about virus protection, as if the Developers sitting there forgot about the Chinese security risk this year (http://news.priyo.com/tech/2011/06/05/gmail-hacking-hotmail-and-yaho-28030.html) He also mentioned that by default all data is encrypted. Now Google may not be Sony but leaving everything on the cloud is in fact still a risk.
Anyway, I'm getting a little offtopic. Basically the Chromebook is a brick that connects to the internet to perform basic functions. Basically it's just sooped up version of Chrome.
During the demo, it appears that you couldn't really do ANYTHING without uploading it to the cloud :mellow: Must suck for countries with data caps :frusty:
btw video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYND_zvIc0