Google unveils Chromebooks and Chrome OS

[rob312t]

Not sure if you guys saw the Google IO conference announcement yesterday, but they unveiled the Chrome OS, and more specifically Chromebooks.

You can check out the video:

YouTube - Chromebook - Speed

And please stop by to discuss at Chromebook Forums

[zoltiz]

I just grabbed a CR-48 on eBay, seeing how Samsung will be $500 with only somewhat better CPU, I think I can manage with a $300 CR.

Not sure how useful 100MB/mo data will be, though - seems awfully little. I eat up at least 300 on my iPhone doing just work email.

[northbridge]

post impressions on the CR-48. i wish they wouldve picked me to be a beta tester but oh well. I've been thinking about picking one up on craigslist locally

[zoltiz]

Dammit. I always forget to check Craigslist - could've picked it up today for pretty much the same money as eBay.

Will definitely post up.

The evil Googlers didn't pick me for beta test either, but I'm still anxious to try the cloud life even for $300 of my own dough

[Zodiak]

Originally Posted by zoltiz

The evil Googlers didn't pick me for beta test either, but I'm still anxious to try the cloud life even for $300 of my own dough

HEY! We are not evil

[zoltiz]

Originally Posted by Zodiak

HEY! We are not evil

You know what that was a stab at, right

[Zodiak]

Originally Posted by zoltiz

You know what that was a stab at, right

LOL< Of course

[zoltiz]

Got the CR-48 today - awesome looking netbook. Thin, light, large screen. Love the minimalistic design, giant touchpad. Not so big on the fake right click yet.

One thing that blew me away was support for Russian phonetic keyboard - nobody does that out of the box as far as I know.

Instant on is nice, battery life is nice, 100MB of Verizon 3G/month is nice, but mostly a bait.

Useful shortcut keys instead of F-keys are also cool.

Caps Lock key is gone: "We expect this will improve the quality of comments across the web". FTW.

[Zodiak]

Glad you like it

[northbridge]

cool