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Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by MatthewPhillips on Monday July 25, 2011 @02:58PM (#2804031)
> Until Google deletes your account for no specific reason and refuses to give it back (this has happened to more than one person)

Google can delete my Facebook account? My Office Web Apps account? How do they manage this?

> Every OS ever has had this feature. It's called "Users"

No other OS saves OS settings and apps in the cloud, to my knowledge.

> What does this mean? That you designed it to be inefficient so you can speed it up and gather favor from your users? That you just stopped optimizing halfway through and pegged it 1.0?

They are talking about the auto-update feature.

Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by kenjackson on Monday July 25, 2011 @03:02PM (#2804049)
Google can delete my Facebook account? My Office Web Apps account? How do they manage this?

If Google deletes your Google/GMail account, can you still login to your Chromebook?

Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by MatthewPhillips on Monday July 25, 2011 @03:05PM (#2804072)
You don't need to login at all.
Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by kenjackson on Monday July 25, 2011 @03:07PM (#2804084)
Nice. For some reason I thought you needed a Google account to use it. Now that I know you don't that's a plus. Not enough of a plus, but it's one less thing to worry about.
Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by saraid216 on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:42PM (#2804811)
It's a plus, but is it a Google plus? /rimshot
Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by saurik on Monday July 25, 2011 @03:08PM (#2804097)
> Google can delete my Facebook account? My Office Web Apps account? How do they manage this?

You don't use your Facebook account to log into a Chromebook.

Re:Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349 by gatlin on Monday July 25, 2011 @04:17PM (#2804413)
It is probably a safe bet to assume the parent knows this.