cloud = crap ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mat branyon Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Google CR-48 Laptop
I have one, but I am in Colorado. I am not a big fan of the whole cloud thing, but i thought, hey, free laptop, so i gave it a shot. I haven't had too much time to dive into it, but so far it seems really nice. What I think would be killer is if they could get something like netflix on it, or really any good streaming video service. You can pull up a super simple terminal (or you can just put it in dev mode, and pull up a full terminal, which i have not done yet). an ssh client is installed, but i don't think its the openssh client. wireless and other settings are pretty straight forward. good battery life, super fast boot, defaults to a suspend to ram i believe, pretty good power savings mode. you cannot have multiple users logged in at once (no user switching), but supposedly, you can sit down at any chrome os and just log in with your gmail account or whatever. if you have any specific questions, i can check for you On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Joe Fruchey <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I wasn't aware of the pilot program, but I've applied now, thanks. I was a gmail beta tester, so I used that old email address in the app, I wonder if they'll notice that... or if it will help any. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > a friend of mine has one. > i haven't touched it yet. but he says it's pretty neat. > > i applied too, but haven't received anything. > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Richards Jr, Edward C. > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I just looked at the CR-48 Laptop tracker and see that 17 units have been >> delivered to the Baton Rouge area. Anyone here have one? If so, what are >> your thoughts? I applied for one, but haven't seen anything yet. I >> understand that they "paused" shipment on December 22 and are scheduled to >> resume soon. >> >> >> >> Ed >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > > -- > Have Mercy & Say Yeah > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
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