Cloud OS has been the talk of town for last couple of months now and everyone is eagerly awaiting for Google’s upcoming OS which is totally web centeric. Mainly developed for the people who use internet mainly and after opening the notebook. But looking at various sources, it seems that Google Chrome is not the first one with similar concept, but there are already quite a few OS available.
PCWorld has recently collected all the alternatives of Google Chrome OS for you and compiled here. Cloudo, Glide, Jolicloud are some of them already available and you can see if they suits your need.
(via PCWorld)
Compared to all other major browsers available on Mac OS, Google Chrome is definitely the fastest one. Starting the browser is almost instant, and surfing the web is noticably faster too. This is especially true for sites with a lot of JavaScript.
The User interface takes a little time to get used to. Tabs are part of the title bar, like in early versions of the Safari 4 Beta. You can drag tabs out of a window to create a standalone window for this tab or move a tab into any other Google Chrome window. Because the tabs are part of the title bar, I sometimes accidently drag a tab out of it’s window which is a little bit annoying.A nice feature of Google Chrome is it’s automatic update. Google Chrome has never asked me to restart it, and yet it’s always up to date. Having the latest version of a browser is quite important and if updates are deployed without distracting the user, that’s definitely a good feature.