Comments on: Google Drive + Chrome OS = Chromebook rebirth

By: SPM

SPM — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:02:00 +0000

I think that 5GB is plenty for most people. It doesn’t include space taken up be Google Docs files or emails. I know that there are millions of people who are stupid enough to put their entire life of personal information of the likes of Facebook without thinking first about the consequences. I would never put all my private data on the cloud – only the data that I am using at a particular time or that I need to share. The rest I would either delete as soon as it becomes redundant, or transfer it to USB key or CD/DVD if I am likely to need it again. The same goes for a PC or laptop hard drive, since the same risk is there when you dispose of your PC, or if you have it stolen, except that there you may have traces of passwords, encryption keys or credit card numbers also saved. In this context.

If you need more than 5GB, you are probably a business, and you can probably afford to pay for it, and will probably need enterprise archiving solutions. Even in a business, if you let individuals accumulate more than 1GB of personal data without properly identifying its context and archiving it in a retrievable way on a server, you are asking for trouble.

By: SPM

SPM — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:33:00 +0000

Just one other point – Microsoft’s online Office apps are also cut down versions of Microsoft’s full (local hard drive installed) MS Office office apps. They actually have less functionality than Google Docs.

By: Yvan

Yvan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:02:00 +0000

The good news is that Native Client can bring good existing games to Chrome OS.

By: Jonathan Kryza

Jonathan Kryza — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:39:00 +0000

It would help sales it they offered more free storage for Chromebook(and Chromebox) users.

By: PST

PST — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Google docs is primarily intended for mobile devices, shared documents, email attachments etc. It is way better than MS Office or LibreOffice for use on a mobile phone and perfectly adequate to produce the typical documents for sharing information that non-secretarial office staff produce. The additional complexity of full feature office suites like MS Office or Libre Office get in the way on mobile devices, and aren’t required for the most part in non-secretarial work (apart from spreadsheets perhaps).

Secretarial staff need to use complex formatting, and features like mailmerge, and some accounting, engineering, and scientific staff need Excel compatibility and so do need MS Office, Libre Office, or one of the more sophisticated web office productivity apps to do what they require.

The Gmail is absolutely brilliant, and is the reason why most people who use Google Docs use Google Docs. Think of Docs as an improvement on MS Write for creating email attachments and for collaborative shared files, because I think that is what Google intends it to be. Google could have easily matched MS Office feature for feature by adopting an OpenOffice/LibreOffice variant, but that isn’t what Google sells.

The Google drive will make Docs a lot more appealing, because it is now a network filesystem with simple file editing apps.and file sharing capability.

By: Marty Goetting

Marty Goetting — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:09:00 +0000

Offline,offline,some local storage.

By: PS Vita Roundup

PS Vita Roundup — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:49:00 +0000

Looks like Drive will become an amorphous part of the Google empire, driving Docs, Chrome OS and other services – The likes of Dropbox should be delighted as long as they continue to focus on their distinct offering.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Google docs sucks big-time. Until they can provide basic features like mailmerge or even more basic features like merging table cells in Documents, no-one’s going to ever seriously consider using this machine as a contender against tablets or pcs.

By: Jack E Mabry Jr

Jack E Mabry Jr — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:16:00 +0000

Only if they get popular games to run on this platform will it be adopted. Nobody likes to admit it but games are what most drive OS’s. Production is mostly secondary. Just my opinion.