Comments on: Chromebooks Can Work Offline, Already Hundreds Of Apps Offline-Ready

By: Brandon Bleau

Brandon Bleau — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:11:00 +0000

I am running Chromium OS, not the same as a chromebook but very close… and as it stands this operating system does not support gears which is the major component in google apps running offline. With that said Angry Birds does work offline :D Lucky me because I am going on a trip tomorrow! WOOT :D

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:55:00 +0000

I have a Chromebook.
None of the major applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs are available offline.
It is all talk at the moment,’ it will be installed as Chromebooks are rolled out’, ‘it will be available in june’, ‘it will be available in the summer…..

By: Franklin Stone

Franklin Stone — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:54:00 +0000

I expect that Google is going to keep it under lock and key to “preserve the experience.” If you put it on your piece of crap Dell (doesn’t matter what model, because really aren’t all Dells crap to begin with) and it doesn’t work well, then people will go complaining about the OS when really it’s the hardware to blame.

By: Joseph Abbey

Joseph Abbey — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:09:00 +0000

I tried scouring the web for it but theres only copies, you can’t get the real deal yet :(
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By: Joseph Abbey

Joseph Abbey — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:08:00 +0000

the point of web apps is that you don’t use more hard drive space other than the operating system itself, which would make me believe that these would get cheaper because they would only need a 2GB thumb drive to run them.
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By: blue_solace

blue_solace — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:19:00 +0000

Call me crazy, but I generally don’t like using apps on a phone (would rather use a web browser) much less on a PC. What reason would you have for using a Sports Illustrated app on a PC? It makes no sense. I think it’d be much easier to go online to get it (which you will have to do anyway even with an app) and save it to read later with one of many available addons for Chrome or FF.

The concept of using apps on a PC just makes no sense to me at all. For phones it can be convenient (can being the key term). For PCs, it is just redundant.

By: Franklin Stone

Franklin Stone — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:49:00 +0000

My only major concern with the Chrome OS was that it required you to be online to use, with this news my next question is: Can I download Chrome OS on my Lenovo x100e, I love my little notebook, and I’d love to try Chrome (I already use that as my web browser anyway) but I don’t want to buy new hardware.