Glad you asked:
As for the why-you-should-care part, you probably shouldn’t — at least for now. Chrome OS is at least a year away, and there won’t even be a beta until well into 2010.
That said, envision a netbook that boots in seconds, connects you instantly to the kinds of apps you use most (e-mail, Web, word processing, etc.), and costs around $200 — because you didn’t have to pay an extra $100 for a Windows OS.
That’s a little pie-in-the-sky on my part, but I’ll meet you back here in a year and see where things stand. You heard it here first.
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