How I wish a computer can be more like a television! Push the power button on a TV and it just switches on. It happens almost instantaneously whereas for a computer, you’ll see the Windows or the Mac icon while it loads the system. The booting process could take from less than 30 seconds to a few minutes, depending on your OS or how much junk you’ve installed on your computer.
But it seems that the new Google software known as Google Chrome OS will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on.
Sundar Pichai, vice-president of product management for Google’s Chrome OS, said that computers running Chrome OS will be able to start in less than seven seconds and it takes three seconds to hit an application.
Speed, simplicity and security were the key components of the design. “We believe there is a better model of computing we can give users,” he said while demonstrating the in-progress software at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “That is what Chrome OS is. Speed, simplicity and security. We want Google Chrome OS to be so blazingly fast… We think it should be like a TV, you turn it on and you are in the application.”
Google Chrome OS is one of the greatest inventions ever created by the folks at the search engine giant. Announced on July this year, the new Google Chrome OS will feature a small, fast-booting platform, which enables web users to get hook up to the web within a few seconds. For example, you’re able to gain access to Google’s apps or web services without any hassle or worry about viruses, malware and security updates. The Google Chrome OS team has open source the project and will be available for consumers by the end of 2010. The software will be available at no cost, similar to its Android smartphone software.
Google-crafted Chrome OS will be tailored exclusively for applications hosted as services in the Internet “cloud” and debut on low-cost bare-bones netbooks that have been a booming segment of the laptop computer market.
The folks at the Internet company has created an animated video on YouTube to explain Chrome OS to the public.