Zip code search would be so awesome right now.
The guy who made this says that's coming. He's hanging out over at slickdeals, where they figured this all out.
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#32This is US only tracker - you think that they are shipping to US citizens only
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#33How are they deciding who to send these to exactly?
Really? -1? Cool story guys.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think applying that degree of psychological analysis to such a trivial situation is a bit insulting to people who actually suffer from genuine rejection. What you're saying could be said about any closed beta that Google has done for any of their products. I have yet to meet or hear about anybody emotionally scarred from those experiences. Have you?
It's not an issue of being emotionally scarred it's an issue of losing one's passion. Again it's not the same as other closed Betas. It's a movement towards an entirely different computing model. One that not everyone accepts is valid (in fact I'd argue most don't think a completely browser based computing experience is valid at this point). So what Google needs more than anything is people who are passionate about t…
I truly believe that most people are intelligent enough to understand that Google cannot gift an unlimited number of laptops and that randomness is the determining factor in who gets one and who doesn’t. 60,000 laptops mean that 1 in 5000 Americans will get one. Is that not enough? I also don’t think that there is any way you can send out a few thousand free laptops without causing hype …
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#35I received my Cr-48 Yesterday morning, and this site shows that one Cr-48 was overnighted to my area, but two more were shipped UPS Ground. I wonder why mine was overnighted?
You probably signed up on the short form during the window during and some set number of hours after the presentation. Right?
i filled out the short form and it doesn't look like mine shipped yet.
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#36How are they deciding who to send these to exactly?
Why is this being downvoted?
The question is pretty legit; the long application asks a number of questions like how much you use desktop apps (Anything from MATLAB to Citrix), and also about your preference in Google products vs anything else (gmail, calendar, docs, etc).
Is there any indication to whether they are picking people with good fits (e.g. those who basically use all the Google products already) or are they just selecting people randomly, using the data provided just for stats and context to the person's inputs?
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#37I received my Cr-48 Yesterday morning, and this site shows that one Cr-48 was overnighted to my area, but two more were shipped UPS Ground. I wonder why mine was overnighted?
You probably signed up on the short form during the window during and some set number of hours after the presentation. Right?
I applied by scanning a QR code during the presentation, before they said the actual URL.