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28/04/2012

This is Aura: hands-on with the latest version of Chrome OS

This is Aura: hands-on with the latest version of Chrome OS: Chromebook Aura






Our Samsung Series 5 Chromebook hasn't gotten much love recently, but Google just pushed out an update through its developer channel, called "Aura." We downloaded and tested the new update, and were surprised how suddenly... familiar it felt.
To put it simply, the changes in Aura are clearly designed to make the Chromebook feel like a laptop rather than a browser with a keyboard. There's actually a desktop, with a background and everything. There are icons at the bottom on the left side, and a Quick Launch-style menu on the right side — it looks just like the Windows 7 taskbar. The right-most icon in the list opens a page of bookmarks that looks a whole lot like the Launch Pad feature in OS X Lion, except that instead of apps it's...
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