With the product in their hands and with time to devote to usability tests we were able to gather some impressions that we will explain below. As supplied by Samsung Chrome book the 5 Series offers direct access to Google Apps and a few other Google applications downloaded from the marketplace. With these tools and integrated with the browser you can perform almost all operations for which a Chrome book is expected.
Among the interesting innovations we have found the File Manager, which is useful for archiving data stored locally or remotely. Chrome OS is, however, have another component for the management of the archives using the default system, then it is not clear how to customize the use of a tool than the other.
Compared to what we saw at the press conference we enjoyed the presence of a file accessible from the Home Manager and open automatically when you connect a USB thumb drive or SD card. The tool displays two folders called internal storage and external storage, and you can not copy and paste between folders or between these elements. Inside the Archive folder, you can scarier any items from the web or create subfolders, but to transfer such content to other volumes is necessary to rely on the cloud.
Archive folders will be visible even during operations upload to online services as an alternative to Google, so this detail of the house in Mountain View did not want to put excessive restrictions. As a test we wanted to do some editing with Photoshop.com and we could not detect any problem uploading images has been carried out properly by accessing the folders stored locally or to those relating to SD card.
The Web Store made available by Google offers interesting tools to expand the potential use of Chrome book, even for professional users. As for the Android marketplace provides a good description of the various components with specific references to the privileges granted to a single application installed. But there is something to improve in our view, in fact, the Web Store offers you to install extensions or applications unusable on Chrome book, such as some extensions provided for integration with Skype software component is not installed on the course Chrome book . It would at least be desirable to apply a filter to display only installable on Chrome OS, especially with regard less experienced users. Most experts however feel the lack of tools able to monitor system resources occupied.
After this series of unconvincing details we want to clarify that it is precisely for details. With Google Chrome book Chrome OS and offers something new and innovative. With high probability, and with some adjustments, these solutions represent a good choice in the future. You must, however, have very clear what are the potential and limits of a Chrome book, but will also have the opportunity to look beyond the cloud services offered by Google when there are different types of requirements in terms of storage, but also applications.
Posted by: Wasim Javed
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