Google’s Chromebook Evokes Warmth for Windows: Rich Jaroslovsky

It isn’t often you come across a computer that makes you wish it ran Microsoft Windows. The new Chromebook Series 5 laptop manages that impressive feat.

The Chromebook, born of a partnership between Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc., is the first commercially available computer to run Google’s Chrome Operating System. The idea is that you use “the cloud” -- that is, the Internet -- to replace many of the functions traditionally handled by the computer hardware.