Google Chrome OS Screenshots Leaked!

A guy working in a company that supplies laptop parts to Acer claims that he has released the first ever screenshots of Google’s new Chrome OS.

He released these screenshots on his blog Chromeosleak. On his blog he states that a Google Representative visited the Acer team to install and quickly show off some of the features of the Google OS in development. Here is a quick look at some of the major features he noticed in the Chrome OS. For more read his blog.

The OS installation was performed on a Acer Extensa 4620Z laptop.
The install from Vista to Google Chrome OS Dev Beta was only 10 minutes and was very elegant. Only one restart required.
Google at the moment installed only the Google Talk application.
This beta was extremely stripped down. However, it was amazingly fast.
There is a button on the Chrome Bar that is basically the blue center of the chrome logo. This button pulls up a Start Menu clone essentially.
There is a clock on the Chrome Bar. It is very stationary and looks very plain.
The icons are large but can be shrunk and grown to your preference much alike the dock in a Mac.
The Chrome Bar also auto hides. It can be brought back up by the Windows key and Space.
The navigation uses two options. “Exploration” or “Browser”. Explanation is much alike the Windows Explorer.
In addition a search bar can be implemented on the Chrome Bar.

The authenticity and originality of these screenshots are yet to be verified. For me the screenshots are very close to fake. What say?

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