Google Chrome CR-48

[MexicanDragon]

So I get home from the gym last Friday to find a brown box on my doorstep. It was odd, as a Mexican hadn't stolen it yet, but I digress. I wasn't expecting anything, but I opened it up and lo and behold, a box of awesomeness. I even got the new stickers! Anyways...

I really like a lot about this thing. The size is just about perfect, the build quality is very good. For a daily carry machine, I love it, but there is a bit lacking, as of now. I have a lot more playing to do, but for now, I post a pic for Jeff's sake.

No review yet, as I've been rather busy as of late, but I wanted to throw this out there saying that "one of us has one." If you want to know anything or have any questions about this machine/OS, LMK and I'll see what I can do/play with. Hopefully there will be some more of you guys get one soon!

Oh, mine took right at 5 weeks to arrive, and there was no notification that I was going to get it, it just showed up.

**BRENT**

[Spychedelic Whale]

Battery life Mr Brent?

[MexicanDragon]

Looks about 7 hours of wi-fi surfing.

[Dusty Chalk]

Where is that, an Apple store?

And yes, Dusty approves and subscribes to this thread.

[MexicanDragon]

It is at a Best Buy. Took it in to get a sleeve, wound up with an incase Nylon Sling for a 13" MBP. Go figure.

I know 2 people that work Geek Squad here, and they all geeked out over it (4 geeks and an Apple specialist).

Showed it to a buddy who is into Macs. He has a 13" MBP. He says the keyboard is a little more rubbery, a little less clicky than the MBP. I believe initial impressions from him were quite favorable regarding that.

Google Docs accounts (or is it Google Apps accounts?) Can't log in at the main screen, as far as we can tell.

It's incredibly sexy.

**BRENT**

[tyrion]

I just wanted to make sure, there is no reason I should care about this thread other than perhaps the pretty MBA picture?

[grawk]

right mike

[Spychedelic Whale]

7 hours is cool. I have been looking for a 13' laptop just for web and work and this is interesting.

Strange I saw on the website that this is a pilot.. You can install new apps right, beside the google ones ?

And how much did it cost you.

Edit:Nvm I just saw that this is basically a web surf laptop.

Edited February 2, 2011 by Spychedelic Whale

[postjack]

I'm quite interested in this computer sir! I applied for the beta program as well.

[n_maher]

I'm quite interested in this computer sir! I applied for the beta program as well.

Me too.

I'd love to try replacing my hackintosh with something like this.

[deepak]

Signed up through my work email, it looks neat

[MexicanDragon]

7 hours is cool. I have been looking for a 13' laptop just for web and work and this is interesting.

Strange I saw on the website that this is a pilot.. You can install new apps right, beside the google ones ?

And how much did it cost you.

Edit:Nvm I just saw that this is basically a web surf laptop.

There are off-line capable web-apps (think HTML 5) that you can download. I'm going to spend more time when I can find it playing around with it, but for now, I need internet. What do you want to do for work?

Me too.

I'd love to try replacing my hackintosh with something like this.

Specs are N450 Atom/2GB RAM/16GB SSD. This would make a SIIIIIIICK hackintosh. Some people have OSX on it already. There is a "dev switch" one can cut on to allow for all sorts of fun.

Now... when you guys apply, you're fighting with thousands of others. If you do a 140 character message, really work on it. Mine was pretty fantastic, and I got one. I'm just sayin'.

**BRENT**

[Dusty Chalk]

Mine was pretty fantastic, and I got one.

Mine:

I have a USB-programmable vibrator that's already Windows, Linux, and Apple-compliant, I'd like to make sure my port works on Google/Chrome OS.

How do you think that one will fly? Should I take out the '/'?

[manaox2]

I already applied a few days ago. Well see.

[manaox2]

Double

Edited February 3, 2011 by manaox2

[Spychedelic Whale]

There are off-line capable web-apps (think HTML 5) that you can download. I'm going to spend more time when I can find it playing around with it, but for now, I need internet. What do you want to do for work?

**BRENT**

All I need is an IDE to program.

[MexicanDragon]

Mine:How do you think that one will fly? Should I take out the '/'?

Hmmm... tough call.

s///'s /

That should do the trick.

**BRENT**

[MexicanDragon]

App-wise, I found the NYTimes app which caches locally the stories, and some of the pictures. It also allows a customizable view for about 5 different layout options. So far, this will be the best app for me during connection-free moments (of which I have too much of).

@Whale - Google: chrome os IDE or IDE web app... if you find something, LMK. This should run HTML5 and Flash web-apps, but I know that there is an offline-mode built into HTML5... see if you can find something that will work for your purposes.

**BRENT**

[jinp6301]

My friend got one and I was setting up the cr-48 to work on the school network. Man, its a nice machine.

[MexicanDragon]

I concur re:nice machine.

Engadget posted something cool today:

http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/05/googles-cr-48-now-surfing-on-atandts-gsm-network-after-a-gentle/&category=classic&postPage=1

[MexicanDragon]

Today I got about 230 e-mails from [email protected].

If you also got these e-mails, and do NOT have a CR-48, you need to be watching your door for the next couple of days. If you get these, it is for people who applied and were accepted into the Pilot Program. It is a group that every user was signed up for, but was private until someone found it. It was set up wrong, and all of these e-mails went out around 3am this morning.

I hope some of you got them.

**BRENT**

[n_maher]

No email here.

[The Monkey]

Did you get a confirmation email when you applied for the program?

[n_maher]

Did you get a confirmation email when you applied for the program?

Nope, I don't think anyone does though.

[MexicanDragon]

Nate is correct re: email. No one has gotten a confirmation afaik. Mine was just sitting in my doorway, no sig required.

I noticed mine was a little slow today. I started Alt+tabbing and realized it had opened 2 (initially) mirrored windows with about twenty tabs each. I had been using over a gig of the 2 gigs of ram, and that seemed a bit high. When I checked the memory manager in Chrome (Shift+Tab, then "Stats for Nerds"), I noticed multiple instances of webpages. Just a glitch I need to report; you know, to earn my keep.

Wound up running into an old geek friend of a friend yesterday in Best Buy. He kinda geeked out a bit at it. Loved the soft-touch coating, construction, size, weight. He asked if they were going into production.

One more thing... Youtube works pretty well, but Hulu is choppy. Supposedly Flash 10.2 adds hardware acceleration for Linux, which really smoothes out the video there. Some people have it, others don't. I'm in the latter camp so far, but believe I can get into the Dev mode and accelerate that process.

I love this thing.

**BRENT**