Chrome OS: forget the hard drive, welcome cloud storage. That if you have constant broadband connection

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Chrome OS is being positioned as a solution for users' secondary machines, offering a speedy, browser-based operating system consisting of Web apps and cloud-based data storage. The focus on speed begins at the top, with boot times currently clocking in at approximately 7 seconds
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So, everyone is moving to the cloud.