Ask HN: Feedback for our Chromebook competitor

There is essentially no information there other than 'it saves your stuff to the cloud'. You also mention that it runs MS Office, which leads me to believe this is either a windows laptop or a linux distro with WINE embedded. Neither of which makes me terribly excited.<p>But, all this is conjecture, as there is essentially no information. If you want feedback, give us something to assess.

There is no feedback because you have shown us nothing.

Back in 2007, I co-founded a startup to do something similar to this. Check out "System 7" @ <a href="http://www.kylecherry.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kylecherry.com/</a> for what it looked like (I can't find examples of the software.)<p>We didn't succeed for non-technical reasons &#38; died before getting to market. But here's my advice:<p>- go with Linux or BSD, not Windows (maybe WINE or something similar if you must run Office) - prototyping and fabrication is non-trivial - we worked with iSuppli and it was worth every penny

So the only difference between this and a chromebook is that it runs office?

i) Skyline sounds scary<p>ii) Software is stored locally. How do you prevent users from saving documents locally too? And how do they know that is synced to the cloud?