Do we really need a Google powered PC, to feed us all the advertising and guff they feel like.
Is that what Google has turned into?, basically Microsoft 10 years ago, trying to encroach on existing business models. Email, browsers, OS's, online video, user websites, maps, mobile phones, online shopping...
What next?, Porn?, Gambling maybe? - what is left that Google hasn't already clambered over like some half-drunk Bill Gates wannabe. Now they want to make a netbook, based on someone elses established technology, just so they can have their name on the side and sell millions to idiots, and have full control over everything. This is the sort of stuff that Microsoft get sued for all the time. I guess it's not a monopoly if there's 2 major corporations trying to take over our lives.
I said it last time - I don't trust Google, I don't like the company they have turned into. I wonder if they will have an original idea in this next decade coming up.
Netbooks are actually laptops, the Atom processor is damn good for what it does - a Netbook without Windows is basically a purse. Speed is great until you actually need to do something with it - my brothers Netbook was missing Windows for all of 1 hour before it got reinstalled. If you only ever want to use Google products, then it probably looks like a good idea, these things will probably be around £250-£300... about the same as a real laptop these days. The Atom based Netbooks cost around £150 - I doubt the price will drop very much by the time the Google-Notbook is released. What worries me is that the people who will go OHHHH! at these, probably won't realize that they don't support Windows software.
