Google to show off Chrome OS Thursday, release it in 2010

What if I wanted to edit a word document, or watch a movie, or play games...

1: Google Docs

2: Get a 50 inch HDTV and a Blu-ray disc but if you must watch it on your PC screen(far far inferior experience btw) then Netflix streaming ftw. Also keep in mind Youtubes deal with movie studios and the upcoming 1080P launch. Still vouch for 50 inch HDTV and Blu-ray disc on a nice Blu-ray player though but I am a cinephile so.

3: Theres this thing called consoles and I hear more people play on these fancy little DS's and Wii's than do PC games. Not to mention its a matter of time before PC gamers themselves are streaming in some form or way.

The internet will consume all media like it did with music. MP3's are inferior to CD Audio but that didn't stop anybody from adopting MP3. Once these online solutions become available for free wave goodbye to monopolies.

Google Docs is all well and good for light editing, but even me, a student, needs more than that.

I agree with Davedude below, not everyone can be generalized as the user you described. Students, travellers, and gamers demand different things, and one of my problems with services like Google Docs and Netflix is the fact you need internet connectivity. One of the courses I'm taking stores all of it's readings online, and thus I'm unable to read them when I'm on the bus going to school or anywhere else where I'm unable to connect to a network (somehow people in Toronto have begun to secure their networks).

Google Docs is quite capable of most things but if that doesn't satisfy you there is an online varient of MS Office in the works as I beleive there is a version of Open Office in the works also.

Either way though requiring functions that only an expensive software suite can provide is a problem that wouldn't plague most users. I doubt your average user uses Office Suites at all.

As for the traveller it is unlikely you would be able to find many parts of the world where you can't get an internet connection but either way the amount of people that traverse the world with laptop in tow are again a very small portion of computer users.

It's the same with PC Gamers. There are not many people that play Counterstrike 1.6 at 1920x1200. Fact of the matter is most people prefer simple games which explains the success of the Wii and the DS. PC Gamers are again a tiny tiny minority of the OS market.

If you combined the people that need Photoshop and those with dual graphics cards and a 1920x1200 monitor they wouldn't even make up 0.001% of the overall PC market.

You want facts? "what if your browser was your operating system. new OS no kernel, no all.... BIOS was redesigned?"

It's like they made a mobile OS and applied in a computer

See the Chrome's detailed review: http://bit.ly/google-chrome-os-best-or-worst-judge-it

Sounds promising, but only for my netbook.. there's no way in hell I will use this for my desktop (just in case BIG G decided to used this on PC in the future)

I guess reading comprehension or an ounce of intelligence for that matter isn't your strong suit.

If you took all the people that program with Maya, use Photoshop or play Counterstrike at 1920x1200 with all the effects turned up they would constitute less than a thousandth of a percent of all PC users.

Majority of computer users dont know what operating system they use and just want to get online to check emails, use a few websites like Facebook and then call it a day.

They will never come into contact with Photoshop or anything else that requires them to have a computer all they use is a few websites and then call it a day.

The 11+ million people who play WoW, just for starters, would like a word with you about your laughably idiotic exercise in stereotypes.

Even the average person uses computers for a lot more then your narrow world view suggests.

My reading comprehension and intelligence are just fine, thank you. And if you would, please produce the statistics you so casually threw at me in your last comment. A thousandth of all users? While that may very well be the case, using unfounded, likely guessed statistics is the quickest way to destroy your credibility. And I, for one, do not believe that we the computer should become the next Twitter-machine just to suit the lowest-common-denominator of computer users. And Myria has a point. I doubt that 11+ million users constitute a mere 1/1000 of the computer-using population.