Google Chrome

[Richard Schollar]

Wowzer Chrome is quick!

Re the laptop: it was only bought in January but Dell have swiftly replaced the HD and the new one now seems to be OK (once I had requested additional info to allow me to install Vista again). The Dell helpdesk was very good in my opinion. If I was to buy another laptop (and I didn't have the money for a Macbook ) I would definitely go with Dell.

Luke, the XPS are very nice, but a little outside of my price range. I went for a Vostro with a 17" screen so my old eyes wouldn't have to squint to see the screen!

 

[VoG]

Ye Gods that's fast

I think I'll be dropping FF...

Richard - you have my sympathy. Last week one of the HDDs in our office server failed. That was replaced then the RAID controller failed. Nightmare

 

[Richard Schollar]

Yeah Peter - I think Chrome will be my new browser of choice. I miss Mouse Gestures and NoScript, but otherwise it is lightning quick.

 

[DonkeyOte]

I downloaded it on Beta release out of curiosity... within about 5 minutes it was browser of choice ! It will be interesting to see how over time web apps adapt to the performance gains offered by Chrome when compared to other more common browsers and push end-users for Chrome compliance as opposed to IE as has always been the case previously... will IE ever lose it dominant position ? Google is as trusted as MS I would say, if not more so... (though they like to know a bit <i>too</i> much....)

Richard... I went for the XPS as I convinced the wife that it would be the catalyst for my new business venture ... it was quite easy to convince her that I did REALLY need 4GB of RAM and a screen resolution of 1920x1200... the screen is bonkers as by default I can see cols A:AC on a laptop at 100% !!

 

[NateO]

Google is as trusted as MS I would say, if not more so... (though they like to know a bit too much....)

I happen to be of the opposite opinion... I'm a little cynical of these guys storing everything online. It's not to say I don't like some of their offerings, but I won't be uploading everything under the sun to their servers.

I haven't used Chrome yet, but I have heard it's very fast. We shall see. I think I'll wait for V2.

 

[DonkeyOte]

But Nate everything is <i>relative</i> -- I wasn't implying MS was "trusted" per se.... ... just that I would trust Google as much as I would trust MS but that's still less than I'd trust a door to door salesman offering me a new Mercedes for £1000....

 

[NateO]

Understandable, as you said, relative. I happen to know quite a few people at Microsoft, so, perhaps out of that, I trust them more.

They trust me, I trust them. Although, they do make me sign a contract...

 

[Richard Schollar]

Luke, I take it your wife isn't into IT? Otherwise she'd know for sure you don't need 1920 for programming...

 

[DonkeyOte]

Ha, no she isn't Richard... she's still in awe of the "finger print thing a me bob"! She's savvy enough however to know that I'm a nerd (she found out a bit late for her liking).

 

[mattrx731]

I downloaded it on Beta release out of curiosity... within about 5 minutes it was browser of choice !

Same here. Mine had the option to import all of my links and bookmarks, and that worked great.

The only odd thing I've found is the "finger mouse pad" thingy (kinda like the roller ball on the mouse) on my laptop, it won't let me scroll up, but it does work for scrolling down...? It works on other programs, just not Chrome... Oh well...