The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
[Front] Posted Jan 18, 2011 0:57 UTC (Tue) by corbet
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The Cr-48 is, according to Google, the "first of its kind - a
notebook built and optimized for the web.
" It is the next step in the
promotion of Chrome OS, Google's other Linux-based distribution. As a way
of showing off what it has accomplished and building interest in the
system, Google has distributed Cr-48 machines widely. Your editor was a
lucky, if late, recipient of one of these devices; what follows are his
impressions after some time playing with it. The Cr-48 and Chrome OS are
an interesting vision of where computing should go, even if that vision is not
for everybody.