Chromebook with Google Earth and Garmin Updates
I am contemplating a Chromebook. Has anyone experience with Chrome OS using Google Earth and updating a Garmin Nuvi GPS ?
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I asked that about Google's Picasa product, tech at the computer store didn't know. We looked it up, no Picasa for ChromeOS. So. I don't assume that because Google creates a platform, that Google will port all apps to it.
Just now looked up Google Earth. Native app for Windows and Mac. Mobile app for Android and iOS. Web browzer plug-in for Windows and Mac (I did not dig into which browzers).
ChromeBook is primarly a netbook, Like Android, ChromeOS probably sits on top of a proprietary pared-down Linux, a kernel, graphics system, with a GUI from Google. I did not dig into the underpinnings of the ChromeBook I was trying out. Though I've worked with Linux since late 90s, I did not readily find the admin tools on the ChromeBook, and once the store tech was looking over my shoulder, I quit trying to hack the thing.
Google may create apps, or adapt more open source apps, but right now they are not there yet with some of their old apps. Check out the Chrome Web Store, looks like current is further along than where things were when the first Linux netbooks came out.
Little more digging, native code is a file manager, web browzer, and media player. All the other apps will run on Google's cloud, accessed through the Chrome browzer. This is a lot like the early model for iOS, though Apple soon relented and let apps be downloaded that would operate when not connected.
Just now looked up Google Earth. Native app for Windows and Mac. Mobile app for Android and iOS. Web browzer plug-in for Windows and Mac (I did not dig into which browzers).
ChromeBook is primarly a netbook, Like Android, ChromeOS probably sits on top of a proprietary pared-down Linux, a kernel, graphics system, with a GUI from Google. I did not dig into the underpinnings of the ChromeBook I was trying out. Though I've worked with Linux since late 90s, I did not readily find the admin tools on the ChromeBook, and once the store tech was looking over my shoulder, I quit trying to hack the thing.
Google may create apps, or adapt more open source apps, but right now they are not there yet with some of their old apps. Check out the Chrome Web Store, looks like current is further along than where things were when the first Linux netbooks came out.
Little more digging, native code is a file manager, web browzer, and media player. All the other apps will run on Google's cloud, accessed through the Chrome browzer. This is a lot like the early model for iOS, though Apple soon relented and let apps be downloaded that would operate when not connected.
