Google OS

[cdave]

The Google Operating System is being targeted at netbooks, and the core of it will be Google's browser Chrome, and Google's Apps.

But the point of netbooks is surly their portability. You won't always have a net connection. You can't edit spreadsheets if the connection goes down, as I found out when trying to do some stuff on a train on a 3G connection.

See how much of the UK isn't covered by 3G.

I think you'd be better off sticking to a traditional office suite until they improve the offline support.

Prompted by sbisson's musings

Comments

[tregenza.livejournal.com]

Is there not an offline aspect to Google Apps (Google Gears?)

3G is irrelevant to most people anyway. Data rates are too expensive. The ever growing number of Wifi hotspots is the real motivator for netbooks. That and being able to look up IMDB whilst watching TV.

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[cdave]

Offline support is what Gears is for.

It seems to work well enough with Gmail, allowing searches offline.

However you can't edit presentations or spreadsheet, or create new ones offline.

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[andrewducker]

I pay £7.50 for 250MB/month. That's fine for me :->

[cdave]

Do you have Gears installed and use Gmail?

I think the point of the linked editorial is that with an always on connection the AJAX trickle adds up to a flood.

[andrewducker]

Nope - I use IMAP to read my email. Costs me about 35-40MB/month, gives me instant email arrival, and allows me to use a client I vastly prefer over Gmail.

(I do use GMail as the backend though)

[cdave]

I'm not even sure if it will be possible to use any other client on the GOS. (without installing a modified version of the OS, which most users won't do)

[andrewducker]

There are IMAP reading web-apps. I'd probably use RoundCube, as I don't like the GMail interface (specifically the way that conversation work).

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[cdave]

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