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Google OS Good to Go

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Start up a computer as fast as a TV can be turned on.

Google's new OS uses speed as its main entry point against Microsoft (and Apple). But it's real battle may lay with Qualcomm and others who seek to define netbook, MIDs and smartphone OS.

Here's a chart that illustrates FastBoot versus traditional PC boot.

Chromium OS FastBoot

Chrome OS resembles a web browser more than Windows and will be available on low-cost netbooks that meet Google's hardware specs (memory chips to store data instead of slower HDDs.) Those netbooks (let's call them "web browsing machines") running Chrome OS will only be able to run web apps and the user's data will automatically be stored in the Google cloud.

Google is now open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS (yes, the code is free).

Go Chromium OS