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Well as most of you won’t know, Google finally previewed Chrome OS yesterday and released the source code to the public simultaneously. I managed to get my hand on a build by some fellow geek and ran it for a while as a VM.

All I can say now is that it is the slowest piece of crap I have ever used. Well you might say that it’s running as a VM after all, true but I did give it a full 1GB of ram and 128mb of GPU memory and it still lags. For something claiming to be a netbook OS, it sure flounders around spectecularly.

Well see, Chrome OS will be designed specifically for certain hardware configurations you see, hence the horrendous lag on any computer not running Google’s customised Linux kernel and firmware. Bummer.

Oh yeah, the biggest bummer of all: the forgot the shutdown button. Figure that.

Well enough talk, some screens await:

Time to grovel and beg for an invite!

It’s close to 2am now. iPhone OS 3.0 went live about an hour ago and now i’m wide awake waiting on the iPhone dev team to hit with the payload.

Gosh this seems like an eternity.

On a side note, OS 3.0 does seem a hell of a lot more responsive.