February 07, 2011

Welcome to ChromeOS

So after a bad start to this week due to a range of reasons, I was generally sulking. Went out with my parents to get breakfast, and as I was dropping my father off at home we saw a UPS truck pull up and drop something off at our place. I didn't think much of it at the time. I took my mother out to another store and ran a few errands. When I got back, my ipod decided to start acting up, so I had totally forgotten about getting a package earlier that day, after a bit of nagging by my parents I came out to investigate.

I opened up a box, and was shocked to find that inside was a shiny new laptop waiting just for me. I had totally forgotten that I had signed up for the ChromeOS beta test from Google. It's about 12"x9"x0.75" It has a monitor out, 1 usb slot and a headphone jack. There is one other thing on the side that I can't quite tell what it is, an expansion slot maybe?

It starts up quickly, and it comes out of hibernation quickly. It comes with 2 years of 100mb 3g coverage on Verizon free.

to right click you have to basically hold down both sides of the bottom part of the touch pad.