Gizmodo

That’s it! Thanks for reading–check the main Giz page for more as well. Gizmodo.com

Q: If there are no drivers, how is that going to work with printers?
A: We work standard with all mice and keyboards, but with printing, we’ll have more to share about it next year. Yes, it will print, and we’re working to make that possible.

Sergey: nice hoodie.

Sergey has dropped by, and will also answer questions in the Q&A.

A: Things we can’t do on a traditional OS are like file system things, security disk verification and repair.

Q: The browser functionality of Chrome: what you demoed, is it something I cannot do with any other browser?
A: LOOK, we take a standards-based approach to Chrome. There are many things not available today.
Q: For example?
A: Application tabs, and as a model of computing this is very very different.

Q: Will there be more space devoted to advertisement?
A: It’ll be the same ad experience as the experience you get right now in any web browser.

Q: Can we expect equivalent functionality on ARM and Intel processors?
A: We’ll be working with all hardware partners, but it will work on x86 and ARM processors. We’ll make sure that you can run native-client based applications that run the same on x86 and ARM.

Q: Are you saying right now that there will be no way to get third-party apps on the system?
A: We’re only supporting webapps. All the apps we are writing will be webapps.

Q: Can you run it in a virtual machine now?
A: Yes, you can compile and run it in a virtual machine.

Q: Are you going to incorporate wide area wireless?
A: We’re going to focus on 802.11n right now.

Q: How big is the footprint in disk space?
A: [A non answer about how they're working on shrinking the disk space by taking out debug code over time and how you should go look yourself because the source is available now.]

Initially they’re focused on netbook-like devices. In the future they want it to run on laptops and desktops, etc. They’re not going to focus on that in 2010, however.

Q: Do you see this running only on netbooks or do you imagine a lot of devices running this.
A: We will be announcing the hardware details in the middle of next year.

Q: Other browsers will be able to run. So how will that work on Chrome OS?
A: Chrome is the OS. So if another browser vendor is interested in making a similar operating system with their browser, we’re making sure the the code is available to do it.

Short answer is, no other browser will run.

Q: Will you support Silverlight?
A: Chrome OS today, they can’t install binaries on the system. We are working hard to integrate it closely. We plan to support plugins.
Q: So you’re working with Microsoft?
A: I don’t have anything to announce right now.

They’re also working on making performance intensive desktop applications to be written in Chrome OS (web based).

Google’s also working on hardware acceleration as much as possible.

So yes, Google is making this a companion device.