Comments on: Is Google building a netbook? http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html Compact Computing Sat, 26 May 2012 08:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mikez http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-46456 Mikez Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:18:48 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-46456 No argument here.<br>I just wish we had some curtains for this fishbowl life. ;) No argument here.
I just wish we had some curtains for this fishbowl life. ;)

]]> By: SomeGuy http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-46455 SomeGuy Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-46455 Umm, last time I checked, the OS was the biggest source of personal security risks. From what I can tell the stateless Chromium OS that Google is proposing is going to be a lot more secure since it should be difficult, if not impossible to get Key Loggers, tracers, and Trojans onto the computer on any sort of permanent basis. <br><br>The other prong of personal security, which would be anonymity has been gone for a long time, and without congressional intervention to protect us from marketing companies and sleazy information firms which will sell your personal information to anyone for a buck, we aren't going to get it back. It's also an OS agnostic threat, so literally everyone who interfaces with the internet is threatened by it.<br><br>As for netbooks being glorified smartphones... Well we'll see where we are in 10 years. By then there might not be much difference between my smartphone and my desktop, not once even Intel's mightiest processors are SOC solutions, the only real question will be power consumption. I know for a fact that for me, a netbook is an EXCELLENT solution to my mobility needs. I sure don't need a desktop replacement since i have a perfectly viable desk top at work and home, but I do need something I can lug around everywhere else, and a netbook is the first affordable product I've ever seen that can really meet that need. My god man it's not easy to right C# with my thumbs, but it is on my wife's ASUS 1005HE. Umm, last time I checked, the OS was the biggest source of personal security risks. From what I can tell the stateless Chromium OS that Google is proposing is going to be a lot more secure since it should be difficult, if not impossible to get Key Loggers, tracers, and Trojans onto the computer on any sort of permanent basis.

The other prong of personal security, which would be anonymity has been gone for a long time, and without congressional intervention to protect us from marketing companies and sleazy information firms which will sell your personal information to anyone for a buck, we aren't going to get it back. It's also an OS agnostic threat, so literally everyone who interfaces with the internet is threatened by it.

As for netbooks being glorified smartphones… Well we'll see where we are in 10 years. By then there might not be much difference between my smartphone and my desktop, not once even Intel's mightiest processors are SOC solutions, the only real question will be power consumption. I know for a fact that for me, a netbook is an EXCELLENT solution to my mobility needs. I sure don't need a desktop replacement since i have a perfectly viable desk top at work and home, but I do need something I can lug around everywhere else, and a netbook is the first affordable product I've ever seen that can really meet that need. My god man it's not easy to right C# with my thumbs, but it is on my wife's ASUS 1005HE.

]]> By: mikez http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-46457 mikez Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:22:49 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-46457 Breach of personal security?<br><br>A good point but once upon a time people wanted<br>privacy when making telephone calls. <br>That is as good as gone now.<br><br>Some, like myself, feel that even having DisQus tracking<br>my every web-site visit is a serious breach of personal privacy. Breach of personal security?

A good point but once upon a time people wanted
privacy when making telephone calls.
That is as good as gone now.

Some, like myself, feel that even having DisQus tracking
my every web-site visit is a serious breach of personal privacy.

]]> By: Michael http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-46453 Michael Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:09:30 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-46453 Actually, the Windows era will soon come to an end. Everybody now use a Browser and nobody really needs an OS. It all depends also on how fast Smartbooks come out. They seem to be taking their own sweet time. Once Smartbooks come out and test the market, and if it succeeds, we will soon see the emergence of an OS free markets<br><br>In the late 90s, it wasn't much Internet based. The PC was wholly the OS. Now, computers mean Internetnet and vice versa. Actually, the Windows era will soon come to an end. Everybody now use a Browser and nobody really needs an OS. It all depends also on how fast Smartbooks come out. They seem to be taking their own sweet time. Once Smartbooks come out and test the market, and if it succeeds, we will soon see the emergence of an OS free markets

In the late 90s, it wasn't much Internet based. The PC was wholly the OS. Now, computers mean Internetnet and vice versa.

]]> By: pazzerz http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-46454 pazzerz Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:52:40 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-46454 Seriously, unless you can do something besides browse the web AND store it locally, its the biggest breach of personal security and an underpowered waste of money. If you can find the money for a netbook, you can wait just a slight bit longer and save up for a real notebook, which isn't that much more expensive. My opinion is that the netbook was a bad idea from the start. Kind of like a glorified iphone or blackberry (the keyword there is phone). Seriously, unless you can do something besides browse the web AND store it locally, its the biggest breach of personal security and an underpowered waste of money. If you can find the money for a netbook, you can wait just a slight bit longer and save up for a real notebook, which isn't that much more expensive. My opinion is that the netbook was a bad idea from the start. Kind of like a glorified iphone or blackberry (the keyword there is phone).

]]> By: mikez http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-46458 mikez Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:42:23 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-46458 Who would have thought you could make money selling clicks on web-sites?<br>Perhaps they can come up with something that is more than just a web browser. Who would have thought you could make money selling clicks on web-sites?
Perhaps they can come up with something that is more than just a web browser.

]]> By: Mikez http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36021 Mikez Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:18:48 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36021 No argument here.<br>I just wish we had some curtains for this fishbowl life. ;) No argument here.
I just wish we had some curtains for this fishbowl life. ;)

]]> By: SomeGuy http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36017 SomeGuy Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36017 Umm, last time I checked, the OS was the biggest source of personal security risks. From what I can tell the stateless Chromium OS that Google is proposing is going to be a lot more secure since it should be difficult, if not impossible to get Key Loggers, tracers, and Trojans onto the computer on any sort of permanent basis. <br><br>The other prong of personal security, which would be anonymity has been gone for a long time, and without congressional intervention to protect us from marketing companies and sleazy information firms which will sell your personal information to anyone for a buck, we aren't going to get it back. It's also an OS agnostic threat, so literally everyone who interfaces with the internet is threatened by it.<br><br>As for netbooks being glorified smartphones... Well we'll see where we are in 10 years. By then there might not be much difference between my smartphone and my desktop, not once even Intel's mightiest processors are SOC solutions, the only real question will be power consumption. I know for a fact that for me, a netbook is an EXCELLENT solution to my mobility needs. I sure don't need a desktop replacement since i have a perfectly viable desk top at work and home, but I do need something I can lug around everywhere else, and a netbook is the first affordable product I've ever seen that can really meet that need. My god man it's not easy to right C# with my thumbs, but it is on my wife's ASUS 1005HE. Umm, last time I checked, the OS was the biggest source of personal security risks. From what I can tell the stateless Chromium OS that Google is proposing is going to be a lot more secure since it should be difficult, if not impossible to get Key Loggers, tracers, and Trojans onto the computer on any sort of permanent basis.

The other prong of personal security, which would be anonymity has been gone for a long time, and without congressional intervention to protect us from marketing companies and sleazy information firms which will sell your personal information to anyone for a buck, we aren't going to get it back. It's also an OS agnostic threat, so literally everyone who interfaces with the internet is threatened by it.

As for netbooks being glorified smartphones… Well we'll see where we are in 10 years. By then there might not be much difference between my smartphone and my desktop, not once even Intel's mightiest processors are SOC solutions, the only real question will be power consumption. I know for a fact that for me, a netbook is an EXCELLENT solution to my mobility needs. I sure don't need a desktop replacement since i have a perfectly viable desk top at work and home, but I do need something I can lug around everywhere else, and a netbook is the first affordable product I've ever seen that can really meet that need. My god man it's not easy to right C# with my thumbs, but it is on my wife's ASUS 1005HE.

]]> By: mikez http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36016 mikez Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:22:49 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36016 Breach of personal security?<br><br>A good point but once upon a time people wanted<br>privacy when making telephone calls. <br>That is as good as gone now.<br><br>Some, like myself, feel that even having DisQus tracking<br>my every web-site visit is a serious breach of personal privacy. Breach of personal security?

A good point but once upon a time people wanted
privacy when making telephone calls.
That is as good as gone now.

Some, like myself, feel that even having DisQus tracking
my every web-site visit is a serious breach of personal privacy.

]]> By: Headlines for December 16th, 2009 through December 17th, 2009 | Modern Media Mom http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36012 Headlines for December 16th, 2009 through December 17th, 2009 | Modern Media Mom Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:02:02 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36012 [...] Is Google building a netbook? – "A few days ago a contact tipped me off to the possibility that Google might not just be developing an operating system for netbooks, but that the company could actually be involved in building a netbook that it would sell under the Google brand name. You know, sort of like it’s expected to do with the Google Nexus One cellphone soon." [...] [...] Is Google building a netbook? – "A few days ago a contact tipped me off to the possibility that Google might not just be developing an operating system for netbooks, but that the company could actually be involved in building a netbook that it would sell under the Google brand name. You know, sort of like it’s expected to do with the Google Nexus One cellphone soon." [...]

]]> By: Michael http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36011 Michael Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:09:30 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36011 Actually, the Windows era will soon come to an end. Everybody now use a Browser and nobody really needs an OS. It all depends also on how fast Smartbooks come out. They seem to be taking their own sweet time. Once Smartbooks come out and test the market, and if it succeeds, we will soon see the emergence of an OS free markets<br><br>In the late 90s, it wasn't much Internet based. The PC was wholly the OS. Now, computers mean Internetnet and vice versa. Actually, the Windows era will soon come to an end. Everybody now use a Browser and nobody really needs an OS. It all depends also on how fast Smartbooks come out. They seem to be taking their own sweet time. Once Smartbooks come out and test the market, and if it succeeds, we will soon see the emergence of an OS free markets

In the late 90s, it wasn't much Internet based. The PC was wholly the OS. Now, computers mean Internetnet and vice versa.

]]> By: pazzerz http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36008 pazzerz Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:52:40 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36008 Seriously, unless you can do something besides browse the web AND store it locally, its the biggest breach of personal security and an underpowered waste of money. If you can find the money for a netbook, you can wait just a slight bit longer and save up for a real notebook, which isn't that much more expensive. My opinion is that the netbook was a bad idea from the start. Kind of like a glorified iphone or blackberry (the keyword there is phone). Seriously, unless you can do something besides browse the web AND store it locally, its the biggest breach of personal security and an underpowered waste of money. If you can find the money for a netbook, you can wait just a slight bit longer and save up for a real notebook, which isn't that much more expensive. My opinion is that the netbook was a bad idea from the start. Kind of like a glorified iphone or blackberry (the keyword there is phone).

]]> By: mikez http://liliputing.com/2009/12/is-google-building-a-netbook.html#comment-36006 mikez Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:42:23 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=16252#comment-36006 Who would have thought you could make money selling clicks on web-sites?<br>Perhaps they can come up with something that is more than just a web browser. Who would have thought you could make money selling clicks on web-sites?
Perhaps they can come up with something that is more than just a web browser.

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