Browsing random YouTube videos I just came across this


Seems to be a web browser controlled remote PC type of thing but instead of controlling a work or friends computer it's a computer 'in the clouds'. I wonder how long it'll be until home computers start getting LESS powerful and run everything off internet based machines.

Seems a tad redundant though since you obviously have to have an OS to be able to have a browser but perhaps it means you could have a smaller OS at home, perhaps linux running a browser as the shell?

Seems a tad redundant though since you obviously have to have an OS to be able to have a browser but perhaps it means you could have a smaller OS at home, perhaps linux running a browser as the shell?

theres new asus mother boards which boot directly to a web browser in like 7 seconds, no O/S required
it will run in ram too, so no disk drive either

well with the download caps in australia it wouldnt make sense

well with the download caps in australia it wouldnt make sense

um, it makes perfect sense ..
what you utilise currently in downloads would be replaced by traffic back and forth to a a single service

you aren't downloading files to your internet connection, they're being saved to some server elsewhere - not counting towards your cap
these kind of operating systems are for the kinds of people who just need their photos and chat / business files / email etc anywhere they go in a familure way

kind of like carrying around a laptop except you can just login to your desktop from any computer anywhere in the world and all of your files are right there still

attempt to minimise piracy?


nothing stored locally means everything is payed and licensed correctly.
it would be against the law for an isp to illegally let you leech something that isnt licensed right?
although if they wanted to, they could now. however the onus is with the user rather than the isp atm. so its not their responsibilty.

all in all it is a brief look into the future and that OS does look pretty, but playing games would take alot of data to load maps e.t.c. but me what that style OS :D vista ultimate is no so pretty

"full operating system right in your browser" "I assume its linux based"
lol - its just a bunch of web services hooked up to a ajax enabled front end and a bit of eye candy

and just for s***s it posts your username and password in the all the ajax postbacks

FAIL!!!!!!!

also seems to think it needs to postback to server every second or so..

Obviously this OS is far from perfect - but this definitely seems to be the direction where computing will be heading over the next few years.

Obviously this OS is far from perfect - but this definitely seems to be the direction where computing will be heading over the next few years.

I'd have to disagree, client machines have much more power at their disposal, I would guess that if you took any five ausgamers pc's and compared their available processing power with the web/applications servers that run this site - they would probably win.
Even mobile phone have half decent processors in them these days.

Why bother trying to emulate an OS using html/javascript/xslt - technologies which were not designed for the purpose.

At the end of the day bandwidth is cheap, number crunching server hardware not so cheap.

I think we will see a move towards people having a home server with all their media accessible remotely if they require, the only limiting factor historically was the huge ul/dl ratio difference. I would guess that services will become more distributed, with users purchasing and installing server applications locally to them.

Which do you think flickr would profit more from, hosting all your photos on their servers for $$ or selling you the same software to host locally for a slightly smaller $$?

I would guess that if you took any five ausgamers pc's and compared their available processing power with the web/applications servers that run this site - they would probably win.

i doubt it, even my "small" server farm has quad core xeons
my desktop is barely cracking 2ghz (core2)

its beside the point anyway, if it was all "cloud" based you could make much cheaper machines that wouldn't need ridiculous components

you're not going to play games at these machines, you're going to work and share data

The Asus Expressgate I've found is pretty much useless.

With a clean comp I can be up and running in 15 - 30 seconds anyway.

Laptops maybe, desktop, never.