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Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?

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What's the hardware? The Techcrunch photo looks ugly :-P

Engadget has a more competent photographer: http://www.engadget.com/photos/google-cr-48-chrome-laptop-pr...

I think the hardware looks absolutely beautiful. I have never seen a Netbook I would consider to be adequate, optically speaking, but this one definitely looks like it absolutely is.

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?

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post #60

Not 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)

Subversive...I like it :)

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?

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post #41
post #18

Mine 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."

I don't get it.

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?

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I applied as a developer as soon as the link was posted on engadget during the live show. I hope mine comes tonight, UPS usually runs around 5. Questions: Does it have an SD card slot? Do you have any idea size of SSD? Do you know what CPU it has?

To answer your questions, yes it has an SD slot on the right-hand side. I've been looking around but can't determine the exact size of the SSD. No idea on the specifics but I am aware that the CPU is an Intel Atom chip.
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