[Cialug] OMG CR-48 Netbook

Rob Miller robarooney at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 11:43:12 CST 2010


I'm feeling like "Buddy the Elf" hearing that Santa will visit Gimbels !!!
 Is there an Objectivism Group here?  Really?  Let me know.  Rob

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> OMG as in "Oh My Google!"  I signed up to beta test Google's Chrome OS
> netbook a few weeks ago.  I told them how cool I was, and apparently
> they bought it because 10 minutes after I got home last night the UPS
> man knocked on the door and gave me an unmarked brown box.  Inside was
> a sweet little netbook from Google!  I did the Little Miss Sunshine
> screech for about a minute, I was so excited.
>
> There were absolutely no markings on the box, the box inside the box,
> or even on the computer itself.  But when I first opened it it turned
> on and went straight to a first-time set up screen.  The set up and
> instructions have the usual Google funny/lighthearted-ness to them.
> It doesn't completely turn off, it goes to a standby mode.  I don't
> know if it's suspend-to-disk or if it's in really really low power
> mode.  You turn the thing on by opening the lid.  Once you open the
> lid, it's on and sitting at the home screen in about a second and a
> half, two seconds.  It normally leaves you signed in, but you can sign
> out, and there's a guest mode if you wanna lend it to someone else.
> Chrome OS is just like Chrome the web browser, except instead of
> bookmark type boxes on the new tab window, it has "apps".  Otherwise,
> it's just like living your entire desktop experience inside a browser.
>  There's no Applications menu.  There's a clock, a network connection
> icon, and a battery indicator at the far right end of the tab bar.
>
> It has a built in wireless card and a built in cellular card.  It
> comes with a Verizon Wireless plan of 100MB per month for two years,
> free.  I don't have to return the laptop, it's mine.  They don't even
> require you to submit feedback.  In the setup process it said
> something like 'if you don't mind, kick the tires, kick all the tires,
> and if you find a bug hit the bug feedback button'.  I've submitted
> one bug (very minor and temporary, what Ubuntu would call a "paper
> cut") and it basically just opens a new tab and has a simple form to
> fill out.  Select category, fill in the text box, hit submit and move
> on.
>
> The touchpad is a little funny.  It's one big rectangle touchpad in
> the usual place.  You drag to move the pointer, tap to click,
> two-fingertip drag to scroll, two-fingertip tap to right click.  I've
> mis-tapped several times now, but I think I'll get used to it.  It's
> not as bad as some laptops I've seen.  Also, no caps lock key.  Where
> caps lock would be there's a "new tab" button.  But you can configure
> that button to be a caps lock if you really want it to be.
>
> I've always been a bit old school in my computing preferences, for
> values of old school equal to late 80s, early 90s.  But I think I want
> to start trying to keep stuff online "in the cloud" where I can.  Too
> many times I've wanted to reference an email and I don't have IMAP
> setup on my personal email account.  And I've been using Google Docs
> for a limited number of documents that I have to share with people,
> and I'm really liking it.  I might put more there.  Etc.
>
> That's what I told them when I signed up to beta test.  And also that
> I run the Des Moines Objectivism Group.  I was hoping that would count
> for "he'll tell others about it".
>
> --
> Todd
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