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hey guys so today I'm here with yet another episode d3 live and actually it's going to be a little bit different today so today we're going to be talking all about Google Chrome OS as well as the cr-48 so if you missed it I was actually fortunate enough to receive one of these from google and of course I'm going to be doing a lot more videos about it and i'll be doing review and everything but for today on d3 live it's going to be all about questions chrome OS is a very different animal than what you might find in your windows or mac or linux so i want to go ahead and take this opportunity to talk a little bat it answer some questions because like i said it's very different and you know a lot of people don't quite understand the whole premise behind chrome OS so we're should when take a bunch of questions today and hopefully help you guys understand Chrome OS a little bit better oh yeah guys so can Chrome OS play starcraft 2 no can't the thing with chrome OS and not you'll find these came as quite a few times is that it is a browser it's not like a typical computer that you're used to there's no desktop there's no menu there's no programs when we turn on the computer you log in and you're in chrome there's no minimize it doesn't go away you're the whole OS is chrome so you know you're not able to install any programs or anything like that now there are some workarounds with this you do have web apps such as Gmail grooveshark a wide variety of actually some really good web apps that can replace a lot of stuff for example Google Docs but there is no real gaming besides what you can get on the internet so um pretty much to answer your question no you can't play starcraft 2 or any other major game like that chrome OS will games with high requirements run if you're talking about the this far as the online games go no actually i think that it should be no problem the white horses there are quite a few obviously flash games as well as other various games based on html5 as far as those games go i'm pretty sure all these developers or keeping the chrome OS in mind as far as you know how they develop a one cool thing about Chrome OS because it is a fourth based on the Internet is that you know if you make something it's just like a website that you go to so it's not like I just only going to work for Chrome OS or whatever it's going to work on any computer with a web browser which is definitely a very nice thing so um as far as the system requirements go most of that won't be an issue at all um what does chrome have over windows I think that's a question a lot of people going to be asking um one of the biggest things about it is the it's the speed no this is going to be compared mostly to like a netbook so you're not going to be comparing you know chrome OS computer to you know a really powerful desktop or I'm accident like that you're gonna be comparing this to perhaps a tablet or a netbook or a lightweight laptop not going to be comparing to something major so as far as that goes what you're going to be wanting to pick up chrome was for is for the browsing so you know this whole the whole computer is designed around getting you on the internet browsing quickly and you know very simply so it's really quite fast boot of time it takes about 10 seconds to boot as far as putting it to sleep and waking it up almost instant you know you close the lid you open it you're already back on just like you can what let it be in a sleep mode for five minutes or five hours or five days you're going to be right back to where you where almost immediately that's going to be one of the major things and that thing is going to be security Chrome OS is again because it's very different from a standard operating system like windows it's going to be very virus proof well okay I don't want to say firefighters proof anything can get a virus but it's going to be really quite good against viruses you know it's got a lot of security features in mind for example if there's any kind of issue with the operating system it will automatically reinstall itself when you turn it on and of course it's got a lot of really cool things as far as the screw to go so probably the two biggest things about is it just going to be that you're going to have pretty good security it's going to be really good for browsing internet this Chrome OS required Java no it doesn't and that's actually a minor negative no Chrome OS does not support java or required or anything so for online games such as minecraft or pretty much anything that uses Java chrome gloss does not currently support it now if you want to keep in mind it does not currently support it now chroma list is a board in progress it is not done it's not released you can't go buy a computer with yet on so there's a very good chance that new computers and as they continue to build out chrome West they might add features such as Java bad however at the moment there is no java support what happens if you plug a USB device into it um it depends for example i'm actually using a mouse right now it does have the cr-48 does have a single USB port you can go ahead and plug in a mouse and you know that will work just fine now as far as other things you can plug in as far as us being there's not a whole lot you can go ahead and plug in USB flash drives and USB hard drives it kind of supports it right now it's not one hundred percent complete but you will probably be able to do your mouse keyboard or may not keyboard and I want to say that but you can't go ahead and put mouse and its various USB drives begins i did think that they were planning on extending that out to a few other things but for now just mouse and just you know hard drive adobe flash player run on chrome OS yes it does chrome does have full support for both html5 as well as flash player now on the cr-48 that i have here flash works it's not hardware accelerated though so because this is only based on intel atom chip flash can kind of get a little bit laggy for example you really don't want to watch any more than you know i got 360 p youtube video you're watching videos on hulu is kind of well it is choppy no matter what you do however that's more of a software thing i do believe that before chrome OS goes you know final the flash player will be updated with hardware acceleration would you make all other videos and other games run a lot smoother can you add more storage to the notebook and install mac OS 10 or windows as far as any storage goes not particularly on the this one itself does have a 16 gigabyte solid-state drive which is not much compared to no windows or OS 10 however because you know chroma westerly doesn't store anything on their 16 gigabytes is fine this sort of the cr-48 goes yeah you can actually hate this as much as you want there's a little switch underneath the battery that you will go ahead and just you know install windows linux OS 10 you can do whatever you want with it so the thing is though is that most of the chrome OS computers once they're actually available we're not going to be able to let you do anything like what are the advantages against tablets well that's i think it's going to be one of the biggest questions about chrome west because it's not going to be competing with windows or OS 10 rating which we are going to be competing with is as a secondary device to get on the intern at perhaps against a tattle or make even your smartphone such as the iphone or a droid I'm just going to be a secondary way to get on the internet really quickly now as far as that goes I wish I had the answer to that that's really going to depend on a lot of different factors you know one thing i do see tablets of course this year's gonna be big with tablets that they have a touchscreen which Chrome OS does not now they're very well actually might be prone West tablets and as well as for chrome West netbooks with a touchscreen but for now it's just going to be you know just like a standard netbook and so temples do have a big advantage new you can download apps you know play games you know do a lot of different things whereas Chrome OS is a lot more than you're limited in scope so um it's it's it's kind of a hard thing I can't just say one's better than the other but tablets do give you a lot more you know different features and more things that you can do with it in you stream online videos faster than firefox or safari with chrome OS well that's one thing chrome OS is basically the chrome browser if you get down to the technical technical bits it's a stripped-down version of linux that runs chrome so pretty much what you expect is the same performance of your chrome on the pc or mac whatever enemies chrome is a very fast browser i would say probably the fastest browser available maybe not in all tests and everything but very fast and so here you're going to be able to browse the internet you know really quite quickly probably a little faster than what you if you had safari or firefox if it was possible to install which it is not you do have to keep chrome but so far as online video streaming goes that's probably going to be more up to your internet so i think that will make a big difference but as far as you know just browsing chrome OS is going to be pretty fast it's from the West good with a dual core I wish I could answer that the cr-48 is only a single core intel atom processor so it's not particularly powerful i do believe that they actually will have dual core atom chips and prepped even more powerful in the future which I would love to see this it's pretty good i mean for example i had about 28 or 29 tabs open the other day just cut testing it out and it was able to open them i mean of course it was very laggy but no it's powerful enough where I can you know do quite a bit but with the dual core processor I definitely think that would be a big step up and I would absolutely love to see that in future chrome West notebooks do you think the Apple would make an itunes web app or wet a jailbreak web app for iphone um that's actually a pretty good thing on this pork because this doesn't have local storage you can't do itunes whatever if you want to listen to music you're going to pretty much have to find something like grooveshark or some other online streaming that's pretty much the only way you're going to be able to do it I personally not a big fan of grooveshark I've you know I listen to grooveshark anyway so it's no big deal additionally I listen to it on the cr-48 now add as far as apple and iTunes goes there have been a lot of rumors for quite a while about you know are they gonna have some kind of online streaming and do you think that will eventually happen but if it does I doubt they're making it just for the Chrome OS I think they're going to be doing it just for a wide variety of things but I'm if it does come I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever I don't see any reason why you couldn't do that with the cr-48 so how long does the battery last of course it's going to vary because the cr-48 what I have here is not going to be on sale you're not gonna be able to buy one of these I'm you're probably going to be able to buy you know netbooks just like you know what you're gonna expect to get with windows today just with chrome OS on them so the battery life is going to be you know totally dependent on the different hardware as far as let's see our 48 goes though it's pretty good um the official rate of battery life is about eight hours and eight days on standby now I haven't actually been a whole eight hours testing it I have tested it brought it down from about 100 since about thirty percent battery which took me about four and a half to five hours but do keep in mind that that was continuously having me tabs open running flash watching videos and everything so I would say that eight hours does seem pretty uh oh say that's about right um will it have an ultra keyboard yes unfortunately can't show you guys that of course I'm actually stringing on the cr-48 if you guys are well if you're in the cheddar into that but I'm actually string on the cr-48 so I can't quite show you but the keyboard is actually different and in a really good way so some of the differences I've done is they've actually remove the caps lock key so now it's a search key opens up a new tab which I love you guys know I hate cash lock the top rope function keys has also been removed it's a replaced with a variety of different buttons so you had this skate button as you have a dedicated to go back and forth their back and forward and the browser refresh you can change Windows you can go turn change the brightness of the screen as well as the the the volume of you your speakers in your headphones so the keyboard yet it is changed for Chrome OS and i gotta say absolutely love it the cr-48 keyboard is really nice it's got a nice Island style what you guys I'll show you I'll talk all about that in the review but yeah Chrome OS will have a new keyboard and from what I've seen so far I'm gonna let it's a really nice keyboard if you have multiple Ted open while they all run at an equally fast speed no this does kind of choked up a little bit when you start open up a lot of tabs but again I do want to stress that's hardware that doesn't have anything to do with chrome OS I know it's just got an intel atom chip and two gigabytes of RAM so you know when you're opening a lot of you know multiple tabs at the same time I think it will kind of get a little slow down laggy little glitches both nayak glitches but it'll be a little bit slow but that can be totally change depending on what kind of computers we actually see Chrome OS I kind of them guessing the wolf see just like a nest and what netbook running Chrome OS but for all we know they might be more powerful so let's just go to depend on once it comes out and you're what we see is there a music player in chrome Wes not not uh not directly la pretty much the only way to listen to music is going to be to actually go online to find some store like grooveshark or something like that there's no file browser or anything like that then there's a rudimentary file browser you can kind of take a look at it but I got that's actually going to be available when chrome OS is actually fully done I think it's mostly just this year are 48 and even though you can take a look at the files there's not a whole lot you can do with them so I do they do plan on supporting SD cards and you know hard drives and stuff and this does have an SD card reader although it doesn't actually work just yet so it will have a file browser probably able to open you know like images and your PS and a few things like that but for the most part you're not going to be able to take a look at music and that kind of thing when will it come out ah you actually that's a good question it was really original II supposed to be out by the end of last year they had to push that forward instead they've been sending out a lot of these cr-48 stew various reviewers and people to go ahead and test them out now I have said it will be out this year and I don't actually know when it will be out hopefully in the next few months front of using Chrome for the past a little while it seemed to be pretty stable I definitely noticed there are some glitches it's not a constant done but I do believe that they're getting closer so i would guess maybe three four five months before it is released anyway guys that's it for my google chrome OS questions video hopefully this answer all of your questions if you have any more questions about Chrome OS or the cr-48 feel free to leave them in a comment below what you just check my channel where I have a wide variety of other Chrome OS videos anyway guys thanks for watching