What's a Cr-48 good for, anyway?
Dec. 21st, 2010 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoI have a Cr-48, a Google Chromebook.
It's a good replacement for the newspaper at breakfast.
The kids like to play Flash games on it.
Z wrote a presentation in Google Docs. (Pix from Wikipedia, thanks Creative Commons licensors!)
Yes, the Caps-Lock key was replaced by a New Tab button; yes, you can turn it into a Ctrl or back to Caps-Lock. I haven't.
Yes, you can flick a switch behind the battery to enable "Developer" mode, which includes the ability to root it and run Ubuntu or similar. I probably will, leaving the Chrome partitions around.
Speaking of which: 16GB storage isn't that much, but it is enough for two complete kernel+root environments, plus a third, plus /home. The two that ship are both Chrome, and Google updates one in the background while the other one is running. Next reboot... flip.
It's a good replacement for the newspaper at breakfast.
The kids like to play Flash games on it.
Z wrote a presentation in Google Docs. (Pix from Wikipedia, thanks Creative Commons licensors!)
Yes, the Caps-Lock key was replaced by a New Tab button; yes, you can turn it into a Ctrl or back to Caps-Lock. I haven't.
Yes, you can flick a switch behind the battery to enable "Developer" mode, which includes the ability to root it and run Ubuntu or similar. I probably will, leaving the Chrome partitions around.
Speaking of which: 16GB storage isn't that much, but it is enough for two complete kernel+root environments, plus a third, plus /home. The two that ship are both Chrome, and Google updates one in the background while the other one is running. Next reboot... flip.
