Weight: Chrome OS-powered devices generally don’t have large hard drives and other high-end specs, which means they are lighter than most other laptops — making them ideal for road warriors.

Chrome OS does have some interface aspects that Chrome lacks, such as a list of apps, the ability to pin apps in tabs so they stay around, and widget-like “Panels” that pop up in the lower right-hand ...

What Is A Chrome OS Notebook? By Ben Bajarin Dec. 13, 2010 10:29 am EST Last week Google put a reference design notebook called the Cr-48 into the hands of many press, and excited consumers.

Chrome OS is at least a year away, and there won't even be a beta until well into 2010. That said, envision a netbook that boots in seconds, ...

Chrome OS never got on the Google Play bandwagon, though. It has the Chrome Web Store, an old-looking and sparely populated app store just for Chrome apps. The Chrome Web Store is a mess.

Google announced a Chrome OS for mobile in 2011, and went on to say there would be tablets running the it. When the Pixel was released, the story was that it was two years in the making.

In 10 years, Chrome OS evolved from a browser-based operating system to something much bigger, and it has made a lot of noise in the computing world. Skip to main content. Menu ...

Chrome OS, regardless of the variety of hardware platform it’s accessed through, is no different. Because Chrome is a cloud platform and built around a highly-controlled ecosystem, ...

The Chrome OS journey. We’ll get to that beckoning opportunity in a minute. First, let me back up, ’cause there’s a lot to unpack here — and unless you’re among the relative few who ...

This latest incident marks the fourth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed in Chrome this year. It follows three ...

Chrome OS will be mainly for netbooks. While Android caters to the smartphone and tablet market, Google’s Chrome OS is expected to stick mainly to netbooks and other lightweight computers.

Google's announcement of the Chrome OS is big news, but what will the ramifications for privacy be? We take a look at Google's privacy track record on some of its other products and services.