Chrome OS: But Will it Run Photoshop?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 4:44 PM UTC

fiaz wrote: post #4

TrevorJ wrote: post #2

This article misses the point of the Google OS. It is a web-centric OS for devices that are used primarily for surfing. Having said that, I think it is pretty clear that Google is betting on most of our applications living in the cloud in the future, and that is the trend they are banking on here.

The article is spot on in asking a critical question about exactly how capable Google's offering is in reality as an OPERATING SYSTEM. To say that Google's OS is to provide a distributed storage mechanism is to bypass the concept of what an OS actually is - the gateway to the underlying hardware so that you can perform the functionality required to complete a specific task. If Google's goal is to provide us with a di…

Post by steveklabnik » Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 6:05 PM UTC

noelchurchill wrote: post #12

fiaz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article is spot on in asking a critical question about exactly how capable Google's offering is in reality as an OPERATING SYSTEM. To say that Google's OS is to provide a distributed storage mechanism is to bypass the concept of what an OS actually is - the gateway to the underlying hardware so that you can perform the functionality required to complete a specific task. If Google's goal is to provide us with a di…

what an OS actually is - the gateway to the underlying hardware so that you can perform the functionality required to complete a specific task This is exactly correct. But in the case of Chrome OS, the real underlying hardware is the server youre connecting too, not your local machine. So photoshop (or similar photo editing software) will run on Chrome OS, but it's going to run in a network connected piece of softwar…