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Apply for a Google Cr-48
- runinit 16y agoThey shouldn't put a "country" field on their form if its only open to the USA. Highly disappointing.
- joshz 16y agoSeriously, I got all excited too, however http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-chrome-web-store-and-chrome.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-chrome-web-... "We're starting with the U.S. and will expand to other countries once we get the necessary certifications. To participate in the pilot program, visit the Chrome notebook website."
- dvdt 16y agoAnyone know the reasoning behind the Cr-48 name? Maybe because that isotope of chromium is one of the longer lived non-stable isotopes of chromium?
- rudyfink 16y agoFor a second I thought it was a play on create (Cr348 = Cr-48), but your explanation sounds better.
- wyclif 16y agoFor a second I thought it was a play on the name of a protocol droid...
- bockris 16y agoThey alluded to something like that in the webcast.
- joshma 16y agoWhat the speaker said went along the lines of "after awhile the engineers settled on 48." It seemed like there wasn't a clear reason behind it, although my lack of chem knowledge could be why.
- kingkilr 16y agoChromium's atomic number if 24, 48 is twice that. That's all I got :)
- rchowe 16y agoMore likely the software engineers were only moderately versed in chemistry (in a didn't do it since high school/college way) and just doubled the atomic number to get the atomic weight, not realizing that for heavier elements more neutrons are required for stability.
- jlees 16y agoBang on; Cr-48 was chosen precisely because it's an unstable isotope of chromium.
- 51Cards 16y agoWhy put a country drop down when it's only available in the US? From Canada here... bah humbug.
- wahnfrieden 16y agoBecause they're allowing other countries soon (pending some required certification), so I can forgive them having the country selection prematurely.
- frisco 16y agoAny Googlers here (Matt_Cutts?) in a position to comment on how long we'll be waiting to hear about this? Because being accepted as a tester would absolutely make my December.
- spicyj 16y agoMatt_Cutts is the web spam expert there; I doubt he's in any position to comment on Chrome OS.
- frisco 16y agoMatt_Cutts is technically a web spam expert, but he is also a generally high profile public facing Googler who knows such things. Maybe he doesn't follow android, or maybe it would be inappropriate to answer this; but it doesn't seem crazy that he'd know.
- jlees 16y agoI'm not Matt, but I work on Chrome OS, so that probably counts for something. However: I don't know the answer to this question. Sorry. We do want to get pilots their devices as soon as possible though.
- krainboltgreene 16y agoI get this tingle in my mind when I think about Chrome OS and it's netbook. Happened when I first saw the Nexus too. A chance to present the world with a unified device that access the internet, doesn't cost much, and is very portable.
- jlees 16y agoThank you.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoSorry--it's far enough away from me that I have no idea. I'm sure the Chrome OS team wants to get devices to testers as soon as is practical though.
- makmanalp 16y agoCute quiz to measure how addicted you are to the internet? http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-quiz.html http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-quiz.html
- RexRollman 16y agoThat was a pretty interesting survey. Personally, there are only a couple of things that I don't do regularly on the internet: listen to music and text editing. (The only applications I add to Windows 7 on my netbook is Notepad2, Foobar2000, and Chrome.)
- seldo 16y agoIt says that I spend less time on the web than most people, which is weird, because I live surrounded by web developers and I am online WAY more often than they are...
- sbierwagen 16y agoInteresting how the questions are framed, which sites are mentioned in the drill down sections, and in what order. (They mentioned weather underground, which I thought was interesting, since that's a very old school web 1.0 kind of site) Also interesting how it graded me below average, even when I massively exaggerated how much I use web apps. It's almost as if Google has a vested interest in promoting the use of web apps, or something.
- makmanalp 16y agoSure it does. That's what the premise behind Chrome OS is. Web apps are supposedly as good as their desktop counterparts. It's getting there, but I think not just yet.
- wtallis 16y agoI think weather underground deserves a mention because it provides a lot more data than most weather sites. It may not be very fancy and dynamic, but most of the sites that are use their flashiness to distract from their deeper shortcomings.
- snarfman 16y agoI absolutely love the fact that a laptop fully based around the web is being denied a caps lock key. Good riddance. I think 99% of its usage (constants aside) is for trolling/yelling.
- hvs 16y agoI like to use it as my Control key, though. I'd be concerned that they would replace it with something else and I'd have to learn to twist my pinky unnaturally again.
- commandar 16y agoThis is exactly what I was about to say. It looks like they've used the caps lock position for the Fn key on the cr-48, so it looks like this may not be possible on this unit. Then again, I guess it's not that big a deal since the ctrl key doesn't really get used on the web.
- eelco 16y agoIt looks like a 'search' key actually. Look closely at the fourth screenshot. Not sure if I'm right, though.
- wahnfrieden 16y agoPhotos of this laptop leaked several days ago, with greater detail on the keyboard. It is indeed a search key. The shift key also has a light on it, suggesting that it can be double-tapped to activate caps lock.
- gcb 16y agoI use the ctrl key a lot on ssh sessions. If the web is now reduced to youtube and valleywag, I'd gladly abandon it.
- sh1mmer 16y ago
- Andrenid 16y agoVery disappointed it's US only (but used to it lately, being Australian). I'm a heavy Google services user for work & personal (as i'm sure most people here are), and I start commuting 2hrs each way to work in a month, so something like this would've been perfect for the commute. I'd happily spend that time testing the laptop and taking part in feedback. Ah well.
- calloc 16y agoI'm a developer and am always looking for the next big platform to develop for. This sounds absolutely perfect. I definitely agree though that if there is no text editor local to the machine I wonder how well it could be used for development, but overall I think it would be interesting to test the device.
- zmanian 16y agoI can see how I can use this for document/email type work. My version control system has a web interface so I can review code. But developers are going to want text editors/a terminal/vcs. I do everything else on my machine. I've been thinking of some sort of server in the cloud for this kind of functionality from tablets....
- kluikens 16y agoIn no way am I suggesting that it's an equivalent editor, but you may want to take a look at Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin). https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ If I get the chance to be a Chrome OS tester, I'll be giving this a thorough try.
- another_ali 16y ago"So if you live in the United States" ... yet the address country box had Egypt. désolé
- z1pher 16y agoToo bad they don't ship to Canada :(
- Mithrandir 16y agoI guess this is better than hearing about Wikileaks 24/7.
- rolotomassi 16y agoDid anyone else not receive a confirmation page of any sort? I submitted the application and was routed directly back.
- cypherpunks01 16y agoThey botched error handling I think. That happened to me once - turns out my text field was too long. Cut yours down to 140 characters and re-submit it, does that give you the confirmation page?
- rolotomassi 16y agoThanks for the suggestion! It worked the second time and did provide a confirmation page.
- GeneralMaximus 16y agoThis is different from the bare-bones quiz linked from Chrome's "New Tab" page. In any case, I filled this new one out too since it lets me actually tell them I'm a developer. Yes, I'm desperate ;)
- flexd 16y agogetting increasingly annoying that most things like these require that participants are US residents. Don't you guys care what us Europeans have to say? I'd would have liked to apply too.
- arihant 16y agoThey have a country field but no way to change the state. Fail.
- JulianMorrison 16y agoAs per usual, all the world's American. This Brit says boo and hiss.
- sudont 16y agoThere's probably going to be an international trial soon. However, I can assume the OS will be released in free beta for you to test on your own hardware. Since Google's requesting fairly intensive feedback, I can assume it's easier for their team to track usage in a domestic market.