Google Chrome OS: Taking a place in the market

Google Chrome OS was first thrown into the computing world several years ago with the prototype reference notebook, the CR-48. Since then, It has come a seriously long way in terms of feature set and supported hardware devices from various manufacturers. 

I decided it was about time to re-evaluate the position of Chrome OS and Chromebooks in the current market with the rise of cloud based services and web apps. Of course, this OS does only appeal to a limited market - but sales figures and the world of media has assumed Google's very own OS a solid place in the world of modern technology.

The benefits and drawbacks have to be closely examined, for example the current support for offline editing of office documents - but overall the experience is getting better by the day, almost down purely to third party developers.

What is Google Drive?

If you haven't heard of Google Drive before it's an office suite and cloud storage service in one. It comes with unlimited Google Docs file storage + 5GB of free cloud storage for other files to share with friends or workmates.

You can edit online, edit offline, do some of your work on your mobile or tablet. It doesn't matter because with Google Drive's sync and a robust revisions system all edits are saved, even when offline. Google will even automatically convert your uploads into a compatible Google Docs format for you, if you want, so you save even more space.

There's hundreds of ways to use Google Drive: You could use it just to share family pictures and videos with relatives or collaborate with colleagues.

Maybe you just need a way to access your own documents from different locations or back-up your files. The answer is Google Drive.

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