14 DAY TRIAL // Google has been praising its Chrome operating system for quite a while and, now that its first Chrome netbooks are shipping, it released a video in which it demonstrates the advantages of having all progress saved in the cloud.
Netbooks have been selling very well and growing as a market, but there has been a certain fact about them that may have negatively influenced sales, especially after tablets arrived.
Basically, they don't exactly have an operating system that can be seen as perfect for their needs, though some come quite close.
At first, netbooks ran Windows XP, but later went to Windows 7 Starter and, even more recently, though not by much, Android.
What both these OSes have in common is that they rely on the hardware for their storage needs.
Google takes pride in showing that it does not have this 'problem,', as its own operating system handles everything from the cloud, like a web browser.
Not long ago, Google started off its Chrome OS netbook pilot program, through which it sent out a limited number of Chrome OS netbooks.
Not long after, the first devices started to reach the customers themselves, meaning that it was only a matter of time before someone offered the hardware details.
What will truly interest users that like to see hardware being put through hell is the new video that Google itself has provided.
In said video, several netbooks are sacrificed for the greater good (more like enjoyment), so as to show that all operation that Google Chrome performs happen in the cloud, online that is.
As such, should end-users' laptop somehow become unusable, they will be able to easily pick up where they left off by logging into their online Google account again, from a new Chrome netbook if they so wish (though getting said new laptop will be entirely up to them).