The new units also have a certain amount of local storage for using with Google Drive.
The chromebook is designed mainly to be a lightweight, fast, cheap, high-battery life machine for running HTML5. The main weakness, IMHO, is that it is about 5 years late because ipads and android tablets are far more appealing at around the same money. On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 06/23/2013 05:39 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > >> You can't. Chromebooks are running Chromium, which is just enough OS to >> get you into a browser (and a very minimal file system). >> >> >> > I have just fired up Chromium in VMware player and can see that it is not > really > what I would call an operating system at all: > > 1. All it seems to consist of in a web-browser and access to a Google > storage space > somewhere in "the cloud". > > 2. Because of this there is no 'Home' directory and nowhere to install LC > 6. > > This is worse than those horrible internet kiosk things they have in > airports; I really > cannot quite see what the advantage of this would be over a conventional > OS. > > Oh, well, wasted 30 minutes of my Sunday: going outside to shout Оставка > and > Червени боклуци in the streets in the wild hope that the BBC and CNN might > actually > notice that there has already been 10 days of significant political > protests in Bulgaria: > the fact that they haven't mentioned them is odd - well, not in the case > of the BBC, > which as the mouthpiece of British Government policy will keep quiet as it > is in the > interests of the GB government to have a bent government in the Balkans to > criticise > so GB citizens don't (as if they ever do) look to closely at the bent > system in place there. > > Richmond. > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
