So far I'm not sure what's supposed to be so impressive about Chrome OS. I mean, yeah, it boots an alternative OS. But what can you really do with it that you can't do now with a browser and Linux or even Windoze? Web apps - check. Cloud storage - check. Webmail, websurfing - check, check. Lightweight, minimal OS - load Puppy Linux or something, check.

So tell me what I'm too dim to see. What's the advantage of using a web-dependent crippled OS over a fully-capable with-or-without web real OS, especially given the cost, size and capabilities of hardware available now or in the near future? I have 48Gb of storage and a phone/camera/multimedia player/computer running real Linux in my pocket right now. It will do a lot with no connection to anything. If I wanna store stuff in the cloud, it will.

So why should I reduce that - or my CentOS desktop either - to a web-dependent notebook with a goofy keyboard running a semi-functional Chrome OS?