Google OS: the end of the hard drive?

By Dylan F. Tweney
November 20, 2009 8:23 a.m. EST

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
“We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … [...]