It was really amazing in this aspect.
I got the Chrome OS virtual harddisk that i ran inside VMware Player.
The installation was not so complicated, it took some minutes to look for the settings for configuring the virtual harddisk.
The OS took more than 30 seconds to load, almost as much as my Windows 7 and i just thought about the promises of google about the runtime of the Chrome OS, and i dint understand why it does take so much time to start when it just a web browser.
I tried to surf with the browser inside the Chrome OS and it worked at the start, then i logged out myself from Gmail and everything just froze down. Seems you have to be logged in for the whole session other wise the OS doesn't respond.
The OS didn't have any ctrl-alt-del function (as far as went with it) so there were no way to bring it back but resetting the virtual machine.
I don't know if i am going hard on google but i must say that google is wonderful with the web and they suck when it comes to desktop applications (or anything that runs on a local machine).
I have tried a few of their products and i really had a bad experience, even Microsoft doesn't commit such mistakes that they do at google.
Not to mention the Gmail Backup application that just crashes with a runtime error, didn't they catch that exception, weird. Another thing that i am suffering from is Google Chrome Browser.
Its nice but its incomparable with the great FireFox. Chrome crashes when i have two YouTube tabs open, dint ask me why to have two tabs of youtube, but i do open many tabs at the same time and check them quickly and with Chrome its always a problem.
Back to google chrome OS, i believe its a great start "anyway" and i am looking forward for the complete product, it would be a great think to use as a thin client OS and keep the rest of the work for a real OS.
