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I've tried the OS on several different systems I have (different laptops and desktops) and found that by tweaking the settings (RAM to 512 etc.) it will move along OK. It is true that there is a significant difference between my U100 wind with the 1.6 Ghz CPU and my desktop with the dual layered AMD 64 bit 3.0 Ghz CPU. The U100 was where I first found that tweaking the settings will help improve the general performance. For a first release, just out the door OS, I see the potential and give them credit for throwing it out to us wolves for scrutiny and complaints. They'll pick up on the discussions and then focus in on the reported issues. I've done a lot of beta testing and learned not to criticize until they have the bugs worked out. They didn't get to be the giant they are by stupidity or lack of planning. If they can get us to help with the beta testing, that only goes to their wisdom in getting a much larger cross section of working environments. I've seen where that makes a huge difference in getting many of the compatibility issues discovered much more quickly. As an afterthought - I did also notice a difference between VMWare and the VirtualBox application. Maybe try that too.

Is this even from Google?

lol, I hope you are serious.

It's not even out yet. This OS is still deep in development. The fact that its slow can be that your running essentially two operating systems at the same time. They DO have plans for some offline use with Google Gears. It was hard to realize for me too that most of what I really do is on the internet. The fact is, this was never meant to replace current, fully equipped OSes, just a lean mobile OS for netbooks.

*Edit* I have no factual proof of Google's intentions with the OS, just assumptions.