Google Chrome OS was finally revealed this morning. So what is it? Google Chrome OS is focused on making your OS revolve around an internet browser since we spend 90% of our time on the internet anyway. With that, all your files, music, applications, and whatnot will be accessed using the internet, thus eliminating the need to store anything on your PC. So where is everything going to be? In the cloud.

Impressions on Google Chrome OS

I don’t know about this, but I certainly don’t have access to a reliable internet connection 24/7 with my mobile laptop. Does that mean I wouldn’t have any access to any of my files when I’m on the road? Then, this would be useless for me in that situation.

Also, so far it only seems like its going to support a very small number of applications since its geared towards people who only use a computer for accessing the internet. What about developers? I use a lot of tools to program in various languages and platforms. Will this be suitable for me? So far, it looks like it won’t.

Either way, it looks quite interesting naturally being a Google product, but doesn’t necessarily look like something I’d switch over to yet. Maybe once it matures and comes closer to beta, I’ll probably be interested, but until they stick with having everything in the cloud and having a very specific functionality, I just don’t know.

Download Google Chrome OS Virtual Machine

Update: Believe it or not, you can actually download a build of the disk image. Check out Download the Google Chrome OS Virtual Machine from Geeklad.