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Six months later, no one has found the Easter Egg on the Google CR48

35 points by thekevan 15y ago

Toddward 15y ago
Interesando...
hugh3 15y ago
It better be something good. The best easter egg I've seen was on the Power Macs circa System 7.5 (if only I'd bought shares of AAPL instead of that Power Mac...) where you could type "secret about box", drag and drop it to the desktop, and get a full-screen animation (very impressive for the time) of an animated flag flying in front of One Infinite Loop. The mouse controlled the direction of the wind. The flag showed (for reasons which were no doubt hilarious to the folks who coded it in) an iguana with a power plug for its tail, and a banner below "Iguana Iguana Powersurgius".
- eridius 15y ago
  I remember when that easter egg required holding option, opening the Apple menu, selecting the About This Mac menuitem, and then doing something to the resulting window (I forget what, but I think it was a combination of modifiers and a carefully-placed click).
mikeleeorg 15y ago
This can't be it, can it? http://techie-buzz.com/featured/chrome-os-cr-48-developer-mode-easter-egg.html http://techie-buzz.com/featured/chrome-os-cr-48-developer-mo... I don't think it is, but it's an interesting find.
- bentruyman 15y ago
  Isn't that just the "Reset to Factory Defaults" switch?
  - DrJ 15y ago
    depends on how hard you press it,
- sp332 15y ago
  No way, lots of people have done that. I even installed a BIOS compatibility hack into the EFI ROM and installed stock Ubuntu 10.04 on it. Disconcertingly, it seems more responsive than the ChromeOS!
  - GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
    I still use my Cr-48 as a tool. A useful tool. More of a computer condom if you will. When my friends visit and browse various sites, instead of the occasional virus, my Cr-48 keeps me computer-disease free and worry free. Now everyone can touch my laptop and I won't mind. So ubuntu on it? I think not good sir! Back on topic. Will It Blend? (http://www.willitblend.com/ http://www.willitblend.com/) > Large Easter Egg Plastic Shell > A cr-48 easter egg. Did I find it?
- eternalmatt 15y ago
  No, developer mode is something you have to do if you want root access to install Ubuntu or others. I have a Cr-48 running in developer right now.
sylvinus 15y ago
I'm cranking my Cr-48 open right now :)
cullenking 15y ago
I (and LOTS of others) found the easter egg - it's a dead SSD that costs $100 to replace.
- Klonoar 15y ago
  That you also got for free.
orofino 15y ago
Probably because I stopped using it after a week because the touch pad was so bad...
- abraham 15y ago
  While the touchpad is still not perfect it has improved huge amount since launch.
- watty 15y ago
  Really? I love the touch pad and use my CR48 daily - what didn't you like about it?
egb 15y ago
My easter egg container never landed on my doorstep :-P Anybody else gotten some of the late-to-arrive CR48s?
georgemcbay 15y ago
Everyone I know who actually got a cr48 just wanted a free laptop, saw the news on slickdeals or a similar site, gamed the signup process and ended up running Windows or Ubuntu on it. Meanwhile the couple of people I know (including myself) who wanted to actually try ChromeOS out in the real world to see if it makes for a suitable netbook OS got nothing but belated invitations to buy Samsung's new Chromebook. Perhaps at least part of the reason that nobody has found the easter egg in the cr48 was that the way they were distributed was far too random to get them into the hands of people who really wanted to use and/or hack on them as ChromeOS devices.
- wizard_2 15y ago
  My girlfriend got one and she wouldn't dream of putting osx or windows on it. She wont even let me throw the jail break switch and get a proper shell. She uses it mostly when she travels because it's light and has 3g, but its never far from the couch. She had a few issues with it and reported them all as bugs, and while there was zero feedback on the bugs most of them were fixed silently soon after. The only major drawback is a lack of MS office. For anything work related she has to go back to her laptop. I wanted to share a story about it being used as intended.
  - RexRollman 15y ago
    I enjoy mine as well. Before getting one last December, I had a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 running Windows 7. I gave that netbook away in April after I realized that I hadn't powered it on for months. The latest revisions to ChromeOS have been quite nice and I find it to be very usable. It is not for everyone but I like it.
- anigbrowl 15y ago
  I signed up on Google, wrote 3 or 4 paragraphs about how I would use it and provide worthwhile feedback, got one (to my great surprise), and have been running it in dev mode ever since. I submit an average 10 reports a week, from 'this page breaks xxxx' to 1000 word UX narratives. I don't hack on it as much as I should, partly because I'm not too certain about what parts of the hardware are meant to be exposed.
checker 15y ago
Bill said it was CR-48 specific, not Chromium OS specific. Huge hint. I wonder if anyone has analyzed the circuit boards for a tiny artwork of some sort?
- phlux 15y ago
  Yep, I am sure it is a HW egg

35 points by thekevan 15y ago

Interesando...

hugh3 15y ago

It better be something good. The best easter egg I've seen was on the Power Macs circa System 7.5 (if only I'd bought shares of AAPL instead of that Power Mac...) where you could type "secret about box", drag and drop it to the desktop, and get a full-screen animation (very impressive for the time) of an animated flag flying in front of One Infinite Loop. The mouse controlled the direction of the wind. The flag showed (for reasons which were no doubt hilarious to the folks who coded it in) an iguana with a power plug for its tail, and a banner below "Iguana Iguana Powersurgius".

eridius 15y ago
I remember when that easter egg required holding option, opening the Apple menu, selecting the About This Mac menuitem, and then doing something to the resulting window (I forget what, but I think it was a combination of modifiers and a carefully-placed click).

mikeleeorg 15y ago

This can't be it, can it? http://techie-buzz.com/featured/chrome-os-cr-48-developer-mode-easter-egg.html http://techie-buzz.com/featured/chrome-os-cr-48-developer-mo... I don't think it is, but it's an interesting find.

bentruyman 15y ago
Isn't that just the "Reset to Factory Defaults" switch?
- DrJ 15y ago
  depends on how hard you press it,
sp332 15y ago
No way, lots of people have done that. I even installed a BIOS compatibility hack into the EFI ROM and installed stock Ubuntu 10.04 on it. Disconcertingly, it seems more responsive than the ChromeOS!
- GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
  I still use my Cr-48 as a tool. A useful tool. More of a computer condom if you will. When my friends visit and browse various sites, instead of the occasional virus, my Cr-48 keeps me computer-disease free and worry free. Now everyone can touch my laptop and I won't mind. So ubuntu on it? I think not good sir! Back on topic. Will It Blend? (http://www.willitblend.com/ http://www.willitblend.com/) > Large Easter Egg Plastic Shell > A cr-48 easter egg. Did I find it?
eternalmatt 15y ago
No, developer mode is something you have to do if you want root access to install Ubuntu or others. I have a Cr-48 running in developer right now.

sylvinus 15y ago

I'm cranking my Cr-48 open right now :)

cullenking 15y ago

I (and LOTS of others) found the easter egg - it's a dead SSD that costs $100 to replace.

Klonoar 15y ago
That you also got for free.

orofino 15y ago

Probably because I stopped using it after a week because the touch pad was so bad...

abraham 15y ago
While the touchpad is still not perfect it has improved huge amount since launch.
watty 15y ago
Really? I love the touch pad and use my CR48 daily - what didn't you like about it?

egb 15y ago

My easter egg container never landed on my doorstep :-P Anybody else gotten some of the late-to-arrive CR48s?

georgemcbay 15y ago

Everyone I know who actually got a cr48 just wanted a free laptop, saw the news on slickdeals or a similar site, gamed the signup process and ended up running Windows or Ubuntu on it. Meanwhile the couple of people I know (including myself) who wanted to actually try ChromeOS out in the real world to see if it makes for a suitable netbook OS got nothing but belated invitations to buy Samsung's new Chromebook. Perhaps at least part of the reason that nobody has found the easter egg in the cr48 was that the way they were distributed was far too random to get them into the hands of people who really wanted to use and/or hack on them as ChromeOS devices.

wizard_2 15y ago
My girlfriend got one and she wouldn't dream of putting osx or windows on it. She wont even let me throw the jail break switch and get a proper shell. She uses it mostly when she travels because it's light and has 3g, but its never far from the couch. She had a few issues with it and reported them all as bugs, and while there was zero feedback on the bugs most of them were fixed silently soon after. The only major drawback is a lack of MS office. For anything work related she has to go back to her laptop. I wanted to share a story about it being used as intended.
- RexRollman 15y ago
  I enjoy mine as well. Before getting one last December, I had a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 running Windows 7. I gave that netbook away in April after I realized that I hadn't powered it on for months. The latest revisions to ChromeOS have been quite nice and I find it to be very usable. It is not for everyone but I like it.
anigbrowl 15y ago
I signed up on Google, wrote 3 or 4 paragraphs about how I would use it and provide worthwhile feedback, got one (to my great surprise), and have been running it in dev mode ever since. I submit an average 10 reports a week, from 'this page breaks xxxx' to 1000 word UX narratives. I don't hack on it as much as I should, partly because I'm not too certain about what parts of the hardware are meant to be exposed.

checker 15y ago

Bill said it was CR-48 specific, not Chromium OS specific. Huge hint. I wonder if anyone has analyzed the circuit boards for a tiny artwork of some sort?

phlux 15y ago
Yep, I am sure it is a HW egg