I have a feeling I'm going to be very disappointed when I get home from work today and there is no Cr-48 waiting for me.
Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
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Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#52Hmm, I applied twice, from http://www.google.com/chromeos , and from the link in the dev version of the browser. I wonder if that will actually hurt my chances of receiving one... :/
I'm not sure if it does or not. I did the same thing. Since the applications were so different, I figured I would fill out the general one on their website in addition to the one linked to from within the chrome dev build (I used the same Google account for both applications). I got my Cr-48 this morning, so it must not have counted against me too much.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the original announcement video stream, the CR-48 hardware is not the actual hardware. It's a test platform for beta testing the software.
I missed that. Did it mention what the CR-48 hardware is anyway?
I'll just leave this here. http://gdgt.com/google/cr-48/specs/
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#54I just got mine too. Sadly, as expected, flash brings it to its knees and fonts look like Linux :(
Otherwise pretty sweet. Think I'll try and sneak some better fonts on somehow and then use it for everything save Hulu and development.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#55I did: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/09/cr-48-chrome-notebook-deliv...
what does the "full screen" button do? Isn't chrome os full screen by default?
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#56I got one. I think that everyone that applied using the prompt on the dev channel build of Chrome got one. Can anyone refute this?
As of yet don't have one. But I'm on pacific time, so may come later today.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#57Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#58Mine just showed up while reading this post! I didn't get any confirmation email. I applied using the prompt on the "new page" tab (running dev channel build) during the live OS launch. It came in a UPS truck 9:40am CST. Sweet! EDIT: The box it came in was pretty cool, and they had fun writing the copy for their instructions card. I uploaded a scan of the instructions card to my site http://tdupree.com/2010/12/09/got…
LOL: "Do not expose the device to water, moisture, or rap music."
Too bad. For example we got Ice T unboxing our game :)
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#59Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
#60Not yet (I applied as an individual developer) but I'm also trying to convince my wife's nonprofit (about 12-15 users) to apply...just need to convince them running their business as a beta test is a good idea... They already live off gmail, google sites, google calendar, etc. so it would be a bit of a slam-dunk for them.
Why convince them? Just apply for them -- if the machines show up, I'm pretty sure they'd be 'convinced'..
(I applied for an individual machine, as well as a set for my office)