

Will be offered to students first, enterprise offering likely to follow









Updated 5/11/2011


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RE: Mild offering.
By kleinma on 5/11/2011 9:31:11 AM , Rating: 5
Well if there are caps, it sure would suck if you all of a suddent can't use the thing at all because all it runs are cloud based apps. I can just see it now:

"We are sorry, you can't access your term paper that is due tomorrow because you have used up your data for the month. Please insert another 20 dollars into the slot on the side of the netbook"

RE: Mild offering.
By subhajit on 5/12/2011 10:23:39 AM , Rating: 2
How about storing stuff offline if you're running low on data limit. It can still do that you know.

RE: Mild offering.
By Alexvrb on 5/12/2011 11:15:27 PM , Rating: 2
It's a Cloudbook. Don't count on it, especially in future iterations. Plus, what if you needed to FINISH a paper. Regardless, I agree that Wifi should handle the majority of your needs, but the fact remains that you're renting a crappy "laptop" with a boxed CloudBrowserOS.

Bottom line: If MS was doing something like this, people would be criticizing the OS, the Office software, the hardware, the monthly rental plan, the data caps, everything. But if it's Google, it's cool and edgy. Of course if Apple did it, it would be the best thing ever. It can even run Apps! Can your Windows laptop run APPS!???

RE: Mild offering.
By Alexvrb on 5/12/2011 11:20:39 PM , Rating: 2
Also meant to add that if Google was really as open source-friendly as they pretend to be, the OS would be a Google Linux distro, and the Office software would be open source and offline-friendly, for all Linux users to enjoy. They could add access to Google's app store as an easy (and optional) means of getting software, for novices.

They want you in their walled garden just as much as anyone else, but their walls are made of transparent aluminum.

