> It irks me quite lot that I need to use a Google account to log into the OS.
I don't think they're going to change that one—in any thin-client OS, you need a globally-unique identifier of some sort to save things (preferences, bookmarks, etc.) to the cloud. And it's not like you need to use your Google account; you can just go make a Gmail account called "dstein.chromeos" or somesuch and use that.
I don't think they're going to change that one—in any thin-client OS, you need a globally-unique identifier of some sort to save things (preferences, bookmarks, etc.) to the cloud. And it's not like you need to use your Google account; you can just go make a Gmail account called "dstein.chromeos" or somesuch and use that.