For Christmas this year, Google sent me a cr-48 chrome netbook. I didn’t get to do the unboxing (which is definitely one of my favorite parts of the whole thing) because it was sent to my parents’ house and they opened it up to play with it before I arrived home.
The netbook pilot program provides its users with a two year verizon data plan with 100mb free per month. Haven’t tried it out yet…
It’s a true netbook in the sense that the only UI you see is a browser – Chrome. Since I use google sync, all my bookmarks, extensions, and chrome apps were already waiting for me when I signed in. Oh yeah, to add a user account, all you do is sign in with your google account. Quick, easy, painless… unless you don’t have an internet connection.
Battery life is wonderful. Hours and hours and hours!
The hardware is not as great… The macbook style trackpad with no buttons is not the most responsive. And language input, though it exists, is kind of annoying in that when you press the key sequence to switch, sometimes it doesn’t switch.
I’m having fun with it so far. More updates to come, because I’m supposed to be giving detailed feedback as part of the pilot program… so I’m going to try to record things that annoy me and things that make me happy here.
coool!!! keep us all posted!!! it seems to me kind of weird that they would dedicate an entire netbook simply to… surfing the net. couldn’t you just do that on an ipad just as simply and it would be even more portable with lots of other features?
do you have any specs that you could share with us? :D