Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Day One - Selected!

I got an early Christmas present yesterday, courtesy of Google!

Waiting on my front porch was a strange box which I had initially assumed contained a present ordered for my in-laws.  I set it aside for a while as I took care of other things.  Finally, I got around to opening it to see if it was something in need of wrapping.  When I opened the outer box and saw the lid of the inner box, resplendent with Rube Goldburg style line drawing involving mouse, mouse helmet, wheel, and jet engines, I immediately knew what it was!

Without email or other form of notification, opening this box was how I found out I had been selected for the Google Chrome OS Notebook Pilot Program!!!!!  Stunned, then exuberant, then stunned once more, my excitement was through the roof!

As part of the pilot program, Google had asked that I use it as my primary computer and to throughly kick the tires.  I thought that, hey, beyond Facebook and email, what would be a good way to test their wondrous device? A blog!  So, I've decided to blog my experiences using it, any bugs I report, changes I suggest, and anything else worth mentioning.

Yes, I do realize that you can probably find 1,000+ reviews of the CR-48 out there.  That's not what this is about.  I'm going to blog about what its like to live with it over time and how it holds up in real life.  Part of it may be "reviewish", but mainly its going to be about living with the system after the review.

What can it do?  What can't it do?  What could it do better?

Let's find out!

--Scotticus

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