The Cr-48 feels a lot like a smartphone with a much larger screen and keyboard for Web surfing and media performance. The keyboard is good, but I find using the touchpad effectively takes some getting used to. By default, it feels too sensitive. The Chrome OS is basically just the Chrome browser,...
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We first glimpsed the CR-48 prototype Google Chrome OS netbook at CES in January and they've finally appeared in the UK courtesy of the Big G. Our Chrome OS notebook has arrived in the office today, so we've ignored the big hot sun to bring you more in-depth thoughts on Google's...
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Seanathome
Since I got this laptop for free, I can not complain too much. But the lack of an SD card reader is a big loss for me. The battery life is amazing, however. And that is very nice!
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Issokay
I love everything about this simple yet innovative design. Super fast start-up. Simple yet perfect. The only improvement would be that it could use a backlit keyboard, but that would take away from some of it's intriguing simplicity.
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astrogiblet
System is pretty slow and unstable until I put plugins on Click to Play. Afterwards I saw a noticeable performance improvement and a noticeable stability improvement. Still lots of bugs to work out and pages tend to "go stale" and need to be closed/re-opened or not load at all. Wifi...
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dbin78
The Cr-48 and Chrome OS changed the direction of modern computing. Although this is a non-branded test device it is made very well and in my opinion is better than most of the first generation consumer Chromebooks. It performs well and is an excellent secondary device. There is room for...
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daneelshof
First of all, this notebook is really just a way to get Chrome OS out to a large audience of beta testers. And while this exact machine will never go on sale to the masses, there are a lot of design features that I hope manufacturers will take note of for all future notebooks, not just future...
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charnigill
This CR-48 is a terminal connected to Google's Mainframe. The biggest limitation is internet connectivity. I have ATT unlimited data plan but their network sucks. Sometimes, I have to load gmail in basic HTML. As a developer and system admin, I need VNC/RDP and Notepad+ Maybe I'm not living in a...
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