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Chromebooks just run a browser. Windows runs a browser and other things. Even if there aren't that many other things, your comment is fundamentally wrong.

nollidge 14y ago
Except that browser also has apps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home
- jpxxx 14y ago
  I love how the most prominent app on the official store's homepage is a blatantly copyright-infringing Sonic the Hedgehog game. http://grab.by/gRs8 http://grab.by/gRs8
- sp332 14y ago
  You can run Chrome (and all Chrome webapps) on Win8.
  - magicalist 14y ago
    but can it on Surface/Windows RT? I haven't checked back in on that for a few months, but my understanding is that they still won't let you run JIT compiled code unless you're built into the system -- aka Internet Explorer 10 or the CLR. Firefox and Chrome will have Metro versions on x86, but will have to interpret JavaScript under Windows RT, and V8 doesn't have an interpreted mode.
  - Raphael 14y ago
    Too bad the Surface currently for pre-order is ARM and thus runs Windows RT. An x86 version with Windows 8 should come later, but will likely be more expensive. Chrome won't run on RT unless it is in the Microsoft store.
  - rbanffy 14y ago
    On WinRT you can't. Microsoft won't let the JavaScript interpreter do JIT on it.
    - sp332 14y ago
      So you can run them they'll just be slow? And could Chrome Frame be modified to run Chrome apps in IE at full speed? Edit: just to be clear, without VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect(), you can't really run any JIT. No LuaJIT, no PyPy, no Java. No Scala, Clojure, or jRuby either.
      - rbanffy 14y ago
        It may be possible, Google may opt to release Chrome on it (or someone may port Chromium) but the lack of an optimizing runtime will probably make it suck when compared to IE.
      - drivebyacct2 14y ago
        Yeah, V8 doesn't do that. Meaning the effort to support Windows 8 RT will/would be large and possibly with little reward.
    - robocat 14y ago
      Chrome could use the IE10 JavaScript engine presumably (depending on how easy it is to hook native APIs back into the rendering engine from JavaScript).
  - nollidge 14y ago
    I never said you couldn't? The point is that to call Chrome "just a browser" is misleading.
    - sp332 14y ago
      The comment you replied to said "Chromebooks just run a browser. Windows runs a browser and other things." The fact that Chrome (and Firefox) can run apps doesn't change that.
      - nollidge 14y ago
        It doesn't change that distinction, but it does render it pretty meaningless.
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Zash 14y ago
$250 for a browser, with a metal/plastic shell.

nollidge 14y ago

Except that browser also has apps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home

jpxxx 14y ago
I love how the most prominent app on the official store's homepage is a blatantly copyright-infringing Sonic the Hedgehog game. http://grab.by/gRs8 http://grab.by/gRs8
sp332 14y ago
You can run Chrome (and all Chrome webapps) on Win8.
- magicalist 14y ago
  but can it on Surface/Windows RT? I haven't checked back in on that for a few months, but my understanding is that they still won't let you run JIT compiled code unless you're built into the system -- aka Internet Explorer 10 or the CLR. Firefox and Chrome will have Metro versions on x86, but will have to interpret JavaScript under Windows RT, and V8 doesn't have an interpreted mode.
- Raphael 14y ago
  Too bad the Surface currently for pre-order is ARM and thus runs Windows RT. An x86 version with Windows 8 should come later, but will likely be more expensive. Chrome won't run on RT unless it is in the Microsoft store.
- rbanffy 14y ago
  On WinRT you can't. Microsoft won't let the JavaScript interpreter do JIT on it.
  - sp332 14y ago
    So you can run them they'll just be slow? And could Chrome Frame be modified to run Chrome apps in IE at full speed? Edit: just to be clear, without VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect(), you can't really run any JIT. No LuaJIT, no PyPy, no Java. No Scala, Clojure, or jRuby either.
    - rbanffy 14y ago
      It may be possible, Google may opt to release Chrome on it (or someone may port Chromium) but the lack of an optimizing runtime will probably make it suck when compared to IE.
    - drivebyacct2 14y ago
      Yeah, V8 doesn't do that. Meaning the effort to support Windows 8 RT will/would be large and possibly with little reward.
  - robocat 14y ago
    Chrome could use the IE10 JavaScript engine presumably (depending on how easy it is to hook native APIs back into the rendering engine from JavaScript).
- nollidge 14y ago
  I never said you couldn't? The point is that to call Chrome "just a browser" is misleading.
  - sp332 14y ago
    The comment you replied to said "Chromebooks just run a browser. Windows runs a browser and other things." The fact that Chrome (and Firefox) can run apps doesn't change that.
    - nollidge 14y ago
      It doesn't change that distinction, but it does render it pretty meaningless.
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Zash 14y ago

$250 for a browser, with a metal/plastic shell.