Well the wait is almost over. ChromeBooks on sale in June.

First i would like to say the name of my blog well was named way before the called them "ChromeBooks" and i think i should get something in return for this. (i joking of course).  As the title says they are coming in June and you may find out all you need to know right here!   I have heard that they will run between $349 and $500.. and i dont like the price of this at all! I thought for sure that they would sell for around $250. I love this Cr-48 and i use it almost everyday but i could not spend 350 on one! The concept is great and the boot time is out of this world fast. Oh and the battery does last around 8.5 hours! But for that kind of money i am going to buy a full Windows 7 PC and install the latest version of Chrome on it. Google has been marking these computers as something you can lose or throw in a river and dont worry its ok you just get another turn it on and there is all your data!! Yea and great but at 350 i am not running out to buy another...

I would hope they would come out with a much cheaper version. I always said that if the sold for around 200-250 i would buy everyone in the house one.. So sorry kids no ChromeBooks for Xmas for you!

Find out more on these sites

Google ChromeBook

Buy a ChromeBook

ChromeBooks (Cr-48 Users Forum) everyone here has been using ChromeBooks since December last year!

Why?

I was sitting here on my day off messing with my Cr-48 and i thought to myself how did i out of all the computer nerds in the country that applied for the pilot program get selected. Of course not just me but any of us. What makes me so special? Is it the amount of Google products i use? How long i had my Gmail account? I know its my search activities.. or my location. I mean i signed up and was selected immediately. I had to be, my package was 2 day air and i signed up on Monday the 13th around 10:00 am and the 15th I had my wonderful gift from Google. Now my curiosity is killing me and i want to know why.
What do you guys and girls that received one think?

ChromeBook WebSites

Here are a few sites that will get you going in the right direction with your new ChromeBook, Cr-48...

Chrome Lounge
Google Official ChromeBoook Page
Chrome Store

Battery Life in the Cloud Crazy Long!

The Battery on this thing is crazy!! Ive been on it for about 5 hours and its still at 30% saying about 2 hours left. Oh did i say that all of this blog was done from the ChromeBook aka CR-48. Everything but my proof pics.

How do i take pics with this webcam??

Quick demo of the app Pic Me Quick

It allows you to take picks from your ChromeBook and i guess saves them online while providing a link your for you to share.As you can see the cam is well crappy at best. But hey hey we are in beta here.

Better late than never

Well first off im not a writer or anything close. If you want some in depth or smart guy blog then keep moving.. I do like Google and Android (Droid owner) and anything new and shiny when it comes to Computers or technology.I was doing my normal news reading when i saw a story about Google's new Chrome OS. Of course i wanted to know more so i clicked on the story and scanned through. Down at the bottom of the page was a link to try the pilot program for this OS and you get a laptop to try it on! So i like im sure one million other eager folks filled out the application to be a part of this beta program. This was on the 13th of December. I answered as truthful as i could I went back to work on my regular job and did not think anything of it. Well two days later on the 15th i came home to find a box on the back steps of my house. I had no idea what it was, maybe a Christmas gift from family or something the wife bought online. So i look at the shipping label its got my name on it, still dont know what it is. So i pop the box open only to find the now famous box that holds the Cr-48. I was like a kid in a candy store im 31 years old and started jumping around and LOL.. My kids thought i was crazy.. I pulled the laptop out of the package and put the battery in LOL the whole time (Crazy i say) Hit the power button and loaded up my account. I quickly noticed that my new ChromeBook browser looked just like my Chrome browser at work. So i started to explore this new and crazy idea of keeping everything in the cloud.
First thing it connected right up to my home WiFi! This is a good sign. All my Gmail and GV accounts loaded right up.On my other laptop i was able to make phone calls through Gmail so thats one first things i tried. I called the wife only to hear i was very choppy and she could not understand me. So i hung up and pulled out the Droid. And went on to tell her how i just received this laptop in the mail. She was happy for me but not as excited as i was/am!

I thought what to check out next.. Ive been watching alot of Netflix with this new Wifi BluRay player i bought so i went straight to Netflix only to find out "this OS does not support Netflix" so that a bummer but hey you cant have everything all the time right. Youtube works Hula and most if not other videos i come across. Well i think thats enough ramblings. Next up i will review the hardware of this thing.

Like i said im just a normal guy with a new toy. Google wants feedback and im going to give it.

JB