Now seems to be a tablet season where one tablet was announced after another.
After iPad launch last week, Chrome tablet concept is sensationally out from nowhere yesterday, trying to ’steal’ the spotlight??. It sounds interesting, but one person that going to fume about this development must be Steve Job. Google is after his latest innovation, again after iPhone, although I don’t think iPad itself is revolution rather than one piece of beautifully crafted device.
As you know, Chrome which started as Web Browser has fast transformed to Chromium OS . It’s early version was tested and able to run on netbook as demonstrated couple of months back. And now, Chromium OS has moved a step further to tablet platform, but.. unfortunately it still just a concept. Timing is important. Sounds like the release of this concept is kinda rushing, am I right??
The concept which was posted on Chromium Project is mostly demonstrating the UI concept. Among in show are different style of keypad position, the main menu screen, tab style and how multi touch is handled in tablet as shown on the video below.
Yes, it’s just that. Images that could be rendered overnight by experienced graphic designer.
I know it is little bit outdated, it’s been 2-3 weeks pass since Chromium OS was released. But only today I manage to squeeze some of my time going back to my workstation to read newsletters and testing some new stuff. Due to tight schedule, I even miss PC Fair III!
Remember Dell Mini 10v that I bought last month. Yeah, I finally think that I’ve made a smart purchase Why? Because.. Mini 10v is said capable (and compatible) of running other OS, including Mac OS X. But what I’m going to do soon is to run Chromium OS, (still in downloading progress) directly, without using virtual machines. Thanks to this fella who has created the image for Mini 10V.
I’m not sure how tough it would be, but I’ll post the progress soon after completion. Why am I doing this? Well, because it’s pity that the Mini 10 V just laying beside doing nothing productive
Btw, among other things that I did last week is enroll and taking ITIL certification, thanks God, it’s over now If you’re working on IT services related industry, you may want to take a look of what ITIL has for your career path.
Just have Chromium OS installed on one of my machines, thanks to this guide. I use Sun Virtual Box as the virtual machines with Chromium OS image from gdgt.
If you already use Chrome browser, you will be very much familiar with this OS. It looks exactly the same, except the existence of 3 small icons at the top right corner of the OS (on my 4th screen shot), representing the battery indicator, Wifi and other menu similar to what Chrome has.
But seriously, is this what Chromium OS all about? Chrome browser with all apps on the cloud and… boot in 7 seconds? Not too excite with the boot time as my systems up almost the time. You may said that it still in beta, but beta should give an insight what the final product would be, am I right?
It may works at certain developed countries only where internet connection is everywhere, but not on developing countries where internet is still an expensive ‘commodity’ and with limited coverage. I have not much to say as there is very few things to mentioned with regard to Chromium OS.
Login Screen
By default, it will bring you here you’re in.
Chromium OS Main Menu
The 3 additional icon, representing battery, Wifi and other menu
The
Why? Because.. Mini 10v is said capable (and compatible) of running other OS, including Mac OS X. But what I’m going to do soon is to run Chromium OS, (still in downloading progress) directly, without using virtual machines. Thanks to this fella who has 
