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These new screenshots are very similar to the ones that were leaked a few weeks back. Even though Google is still not commenting on them just yet, they certainly look legit considering the whole goal of the Chrome OS is to be a simplistic "webtop" of sorts.


Edit: resized first image

Interesting ... though you really should resize that first image

If this is the real Chrome OS - not some fake - it's starting to look extremely nice I love the fact there is no frame around the browser, so tabs stick out at the top. The 'dock'-type element at the side is also attractive to me, seeing as I love large icons and Google do design some pretty sexy icons

looks nice

There is a VERY easy way to tell whether or not the screenshots are from the REAL Chrome OS. None of these released so far are. They are all just amateur hour mock-ups/fakes.

And no, I can't tell you why or how I know this.

Google is bundling a browser with their OS. There should be a ballot screen with the choices for the consumers.

/EU

so wheres the popup to install other browsers lol

That is why I made to sure to add "supposed" in the thread title. I can't seem to find the other screenshots from a few weeks back, but it had the dockbar on the top. The rest of it was mostly the same.

Even if these screenshots are fake (I don't know enough about the art of Photoshop to insert a meaningful opinion on the matter), I imagine that the Chrome OS would look fairly similar to this, since the entire idea is to make an OS that is minimal, with the web browser as the primary point of emphasis. Maybe it'll end up being an amalgamation of the three sets of rumored screens:

Set 1
Set 2
Set 3

I think it looks terrible, its even more deserving of the term "fisher price" than windows xp.

And they look 99.99% fake to me, these could be very easily photoshopped.

Am I the only one that notices that among all the rumored images so far, they all seem to be wasting a lot of screen real estate. Out of every alleged screenshot, there seems to be a huge (100-200 pixel minimum) space on every side of the browser, with no maximize button or resizing handle.

Honestly, if the real Chrome OS comes out looking like those, and there is indeed no maximize button/resize handles, than I sure wouldn't use it. That's why I quit using my Mac on a day-to-day basis - most default Mac OS apps (safari, address book, itunes, and especially finder) won't maximize.

Probably a mockup but the tilted mail icon bugs me. I'd rather have it be straight and aligned. Icons look a bit too cartoony and unprofessional looking for my taste.


I hate that Safari doesn't maximize all the way but instead, only makes the browser as big as the web page.

Yeah, the Chrome logo (presumably used to launch the browser) is a huge waste of space. Back when I had my 13.3 inch MacBook, I hid the dock for that very reason. I don't like having a huge space hog taking up horizontal space on a widescreen display. If they moved the Chrome logo to the "dock" (for lack of another term) with the rest of the icons, and if they made the "dock" sizable and free to move or hide, I could see that design working.

If this is supposed to target netbooks, those large icons and big-size design will screw things for users.

Maybe they can shrink them a bit to fit small screens as it is hardly to be run on mainstream computers.

There is always the easy tell- tale signs in most fakes proving what they really are 'shopped from. Nothing special anyone else cant figure out.

+1 on the fake  

Totally photoshopped, google knows interfaces pretty well to leave all that space to waste.

Have you every visited the google homepage or searched on their site? There is plenty of white, empty space all around. Even gmail was ridiculously plain for many years before they finally released the labs features and made their API available to others.

this thing is ridiculous doesn't deserve to be called OS

it is joke

That looks really bad, and oh so fake. I would expect a lot more from the Google OS when we eventually see it.

why are you guys saying this is photoshoped?

this could be EASILY done by a 10 year old, and without photoshop.


step one, install chrome.

step two, download or make your own wallpaper.

step three, modify the wallpaper so it has a build number and a clock on it.

step four, install objectdock and put google product icons into it.

step five, hide taskbar and desktop icons.

step six, take picture with camera and post online.

most probably fakes.

Fake.
First screenshot - Look at the Google Search and I'm Feeling (un)lucky buttons. They're styled XP Luna buttons.

Its a fake...



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Fake or not a fake, do they need to use that god awful fisher price colour scheme?

I agree, even for a fake they could at least make it look nice!

I think there going about this wrong, it looks like an OS, I thought the would make it so you turn it on and you've got a fullscreen browser, maybe with a clock and few bits in the corners but no desktop as such. However I'm still of the believe that this will fail miserably.

If this turns out to be real I am going to have a field day with all these internet detectives.

Elementary my dear schwanzon....

I believe it's fake but you never know about these things. Google might be secretly releasing these pictures to see what kind of reaction they will get.

That's not proof since you are looking at a picture of a computer screen with it on

Not saying it's real though.