1) You can connect/disconnect, but it always prefers a wifi signal, so it's fairly safe to enable 3G and forget about it (except for data costs, if you're a hea

1) You can connect/disconnect, but it always prefers a wifi signal, so it's fairly safe to enable 3G and forget about it (except for data costs, if you're a heavy user and your wifi drops, you could burn up your data unknowingly). It also shows a data meter that tells you how much data is left for your billing cycle. 2) Crap. It works with Gtalk video chat seamlessly, and is used for your initial profile picture, but it's otherwise useless for other websites. It's pretty low resolution. It has an SD card slot, but last I used ChromeOS, uploading pictures off SD was basically broken. 3) Regarding the battery life, I was getting about 5.5 hours under ChromeOS for standard passive web browsing (HN, Reddit, blogs, etc), no Youtube or games. Obviously YMMV based on how you engage the CPU/GPU, but I'd say 5.5 hours is the about the Cr-48's upper limit. Closing the lid puts it in sleep mode and it's instant on/off, probably the closest I've seen to a Mac's lid closing power management experience. For the power user: I later flashed the BIOS and tossed on 11.01 with Xfce and powertop and got much better results (strictly speaking for battery life). With micromanagement of power consumption under linux (bluetooth off, throttling back to 1Ghz, 3G radio disabled, no USB/SD devices plugged in, nothing really using the GPU, LCD brightness turned down as appropriate) I can squeeze out almost 8 hours of web browsing and terminal based programming, which was a huge gain for me. I think idle power consumption was about 7.5 watts like that, compare to a default Ubuntu install at around 11 or 12 watts. 4) Pretty much seamless, although I always ran the dev channel, so I can't recall how the public release looked, but I wouldn't worry about a non-technical user, it's pretty much bulletproof, going so far as having a duplicate "safe" partition of the OS to restore from if shit breaks. 5) There aren't any native apps. There's a few custom ones like Gtalk and Scratchpad to persist as a uniquely styled interface above all tabs, but basically it's the Chrome browser in a sandbox on netbook hardware. Your apps are whatever can be "installed" from the Chrome Web Store. No maps caching that I'm aware of, it probably wouldn't make a good GPS device replacement.