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hey guys stood seeing you with an overview of Google Chrome OS so there's been a lot of talk and hype and buzz and all that kind of good stuff about the latest operating system that's available or being Chrome OS and since I've been fortunate enough to have a cr-48 which is a development version it's similar to what you will actually be able to buy here come next month when Chrome OS is available but it's a little different I'll get into exactly what all that means but basically I've been fortunate to be able to use Chrome OS for this past several months though I'd like to do for you guys today is give you a little explanation can I explain some of the things what Chrome OS is good at bad at all that kind of good stuff so let's go ahead and move the computer up and the first thing you'll notice is that it is really fast in starting so this like I said this is not quite as fast as what you will buy when you get a Chromebook yourself but typically boot times are under eight seconds so once you load up Google Chrome OS you'll find that it is very similar to normal Chrome on your whatever computer that you currently use so you have your tabs up top now you get a couple of additional options so you have a clock you have it shows your Wi-Fi and your battery also shows you where you can switch between your windows so there's button I don't actually have any windows up here but if you I PI did I could switch between different windows just like if you opened up a program for example you had like two Google Chrome windows open on your Windows computer and you can scroll between them looks very very much the same on Chrome OS and as far as how it works because I guys very very similarly to how chrome works you have flash html5 it work very similarly to what you just expect now one slight downside that I found is it does not support Java right now so what that means is let's say you wanna go play Minecraft or something you're not going to be able to do it in the browser on Chrome OS again I don't know think that's a deal breaker by any means it's just a smited a could add it without any major hassle so once you load up like I said guys you'll be able to get all of your data especially if you're already a chrome user it will have all of your data backed up just like like literally when you first get your Chromebook you log in it downloads all your stuff from the cloud so you know your bookmarks your your save file I mean all the kinds of stuff that you have normally on Chrome like your passwords all that kind of stuff is and your themes that are saved automatically will come to the Chromebook you don't have to do anything you literally just log in and you're done which is fantastic now I do I show you guys there really is not a whole lot of a UI or anything like that I'm like I'd like a particularly standard computer like say windows whatever I mean you had your desktop and you have programs and this and that start button but there's none of that here literally the only thing that's outside the browser is the settings page and when you go into the settings page this even this is almost just like on normal Chrome the only difference is you can set a couple things like your date and time and just the sensitivity of the trackpad get tweets and then all that kind of stuff it's not really anything all that in-depth now there is one fairly big downside to Chrome OS and that is of course that you were stuck on the web so for example let's say you do Photoshop or you're big into video editing or for whatever reason you have an application that you absolutely can't go without that is for example on Windows or Mac and it's not on the web there's nothing you can do however there's a surprising amount of things that you can do on the web so what I'll open up is this and this is the apps page of course I'm sure you guys are familiar with the Google Chrome Web Store and there are a lot of various different apps and some of them really quite good so I'll show you guys a quick little demo like I have for example TweetDeck is a fantastic Twitter client I'm always using it Gmail you know it's just email you know of course your your email and they're all also various gains to won't get into but there are actually some decent games including Angry Birds now there's Google Talk there's applications that allow you to do 3d modeling applications that allow you to keep your use notes and whatnot there's even a VA which is not quite as good as Photoshop certainly but it allows you to do some fairly advanced audio editing all from the internet so while I definitely understand there are a lot of people who go oh well you know what I need X program on it and Chrome OS won't run for the vast majority of people if you're just you know this is not meant to be your number one computer to do everything on but for a secondary computer compared to something like a tablet or ever Chrome West is more than sufficient to get through I would say 95% of people's needs you'll be able to find something in the web apps or online or somehow you'll be able to get through so that's why I am really excited about Chrome OS I love that it's really secure you have to worry about updates patches viruses all the updates are automatically done you don't ever even really notice them and it just really keeps itself very simple it's really quick so if you're interested in Chrome OS I highly recommend it it's a very very cool operating system it's a cool premise now I do again I just do want to say it's not for everyone you know it's not going to replace your $2000 desktop or anything like that but for a secondary computer that you can use carry around with you to get on the internet and all that kind of stuff Chrome OS will absolutely do the job