Yesterday I used an app called WeVideo - it's a cloud based video editing program for Chrome.
Suddenly Chrome OS made complete sense to me.
This program is as good, if not better than many of the video editing programs out there. And because it's cloud based, it handles the processing and rendering remotely and runs off video's and edits infinitely faster than even a native program does on my i5 laptop. Files are imported from your local driver, or Google Drive, Box.net and/or Dropbox.
Now, you're not gonna cut a movie on this thing. It doesn't have the advanced features of, say, Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro. But for the vast amount of editing that the majority of people do, it's more than capable - as well as much easier to use. I understand that there is a similar app for photo editing also that would suit the needs of people who don't need something as advanced as Photoshop.
Now obviously as a music/media professional, I require machines that can run Pro Tools and Premiere and Photoshop. But most people don't. Most of my friends and family don't.
So I think I'd be more than happy getting a great Chrome OS laptop at this point, like the Chromebook Pixel. And then just have a Windows desktop tower in the studio for all the really intensive stuff.
I'm starting to think Chrome OS is the future. Microsoft and Apple have too many legacy requirements to be able to really build a modern, fast, flexible operating system that really fits the needs of most users. Windows 8 may have a shiny new interface layer but it's just the same old, same old, 30 year old operating system. Same with OSX, it's still just NeXSTEP from 1989 underneath it all. Operating systems that on a base level were designed for the needs of computer users in the 80's.
It'll be interesting to see where development of Chrome OS goes over the next couple of years. I/O this year should be pretty killer between Android and Chrome OS announcements.
Suddenly Chrome OS made complete sense to me.
This program is as good, if not better than many of the video editing programs out there. And because it's cloud based, it handles the processing and rendering remotely and runs off video's and edits infinitely faster than even a native program does on my i5 laptop. Files are imported from your local driver, or Google Drive, Box.net and/or Dropbox.
Now, you're not gonna cut a movie on this thing. It doesn't have the advanced features of, say, Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro. But for the vast amount of editing that the majority of people do, it's more than capable - as well as much easier to use. I understand that there is a similar app for photo editing also that would suit the needs of people who don't need something as advanced as Photoshop.
Now obviously as a music/media professional, I require machines that can run Pro Tools and Premiere and Photoshop. But most people don't. Most of my friends and family don't.
So I think I'd be more than happy getting a great Chrome OS laptop at this point, like the Chromebook Pixel. And then just have a Windows desktop tower in the studio for all the really intensive stuff.
I'm starting to think Chrome OS is the future. Microsoft and Apple have too many legacy requirements to be able to really build a modern, fast, flexible operating system that really fits the needs of most users. Windows 8 may have a shiny new interface layer but it's just the same old, same old, 30 year old operating system. Same with OSX, it's still just NeXSTEP from 1989 underneath it all. Operating systems that on a base level were designed for the needs of computer users in the 80's.
It'll be interesting to see where development of Chrome OS goes over the next couple of years. I/O this year should be pretty killer between Android and Chrome OS announcements.
