First off, specs as requested. It’s a nice little machine.
Google’s really trying to push their web app and cloud computing vision, so that’s why I’d imagine they devoted an entire device to it. It’s a proof of concept that you can do pretty much everything you need to from a web browser, especially by using Google provided products.
My new favorite thing on this notebook (it’s far too big to be a netbook, as I called it in my previous post) is the NYTimes chrome app. I had to get used to the idea of chrome apps being nothing more than just glorified links… They’re web apps… so it makes sense to link them to a URL where before you might be linking to some executable in your computer. Anyway, the nytimes chrome version is lovely. I think of all the NYTimes apps I’ve tried, chrome site is my favorite, then iPhone version is 2nd, and Android app is 3rd.
Second useful thing: Read Later Fast. This extension caches copies of webpages so you can read it later. I have grand plans of caching a lot of wikipedia and wikibooks pages…
Oh, I’ve also installed a python shell – where there’s a python shell, I’ll definitely try it out.
BTW, because all this is for Chrome, these apps and extensions work with and are synced to my desktop version of the Chrome browser as well. Pretty neat, because it’s so nice being able to switch to a new computer and still keep the same browser environment.
