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Chrome OS Aura hands-on

2012-04-27
hey guys it's me with virg I'm here with a samsung series 5 Chromebook it has the latest development version of Chrome OS on it this is the aura update a lot of UI changes a lot of new ways this thing works so let's dive in and take a look so the biggest change here is actually this desktop environment you can see there's a desktop background older versions of Chrome OS just let you see a chrome window but now you have these icons at the bottom these quick links you've got a little control panel over here lets you change volume brightness change your Wi-Fi stuff pop open the main settings window if you need it there's also this launcher UI which is a lot like what's going on a lion these are all just bookmarks the web and it's pretty much just chrome you can open chrome we can try to open the verge chrome Wes still doesn't support Typekit so the verge doesn't look great but it loads because there's window management now I can move this window around there are some windows seven style window management features so I dragged it over here I can snap it I can make it fullscreen if I want like that there's also this kind of interesting new scratch pad app which connects to google doc so you can see it's a nap it's just a little app over here and if i go back if i open docs proper as you can see there's now a scratch pad folder and i can see this note that i just made in scratch pad so it's cool it's a little floating app over the top of everything else it's kind of the one non chrome tab interface environment that's here but it's pretty interesting that connects to google docs so that's it that is the Chrome OS or interface on a samsung series 5 Chromebook you
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