Google's Chrome OS, voiced Tuesday, comes along with a small something that help us gadget-freaks flattering excited: the monolithic, plain-black Cr-48, an Atom cover that will be shipped to choosen developers and others as segment of Google's Chrome Pilot Program.
Just look at it. Normally Google's things are practical but plain, if not solid ugly. THe Cr-48, though, is gorgeous, forthcoming on more similar to a stealth-fighter than a low-powered laptop.
The matt-black box contains a 12-inch screen, weighs 3.8-pounds and sports a full-sized keyboard. It will give 8-hours of use on a singular assign and Google says it will foot in 10 seconds, or resume from nap instantly. There's a webcam, the trackpad looks similar to a of the hulk pads found on Apple's MacBooks, and the cover ditches the hard disk for spark memory. After all, who needs a lot of storage in a cloud-based OS, primarily when the appurtenance packs a universal 3G air wave along with its Wi-Fi.
But most appropriate of all, Google has killed the Caps-Lock key, the arms of comment-trolls the world over. No longer will these idiots be able to SHOUT THEIR DUMB OPINIONS without keeping down an additional key. And the rest of us will no longer have to retype a judgment after incidentally enchanting this undeveloped annoyance. The key is still there, reassigned to trigger search.
Google has moreover ditched the normal quarrel of function keys, replacing them with the media-keys that most notebooks blend up with the function keys these days.
The section itself is gorgeous. Over at our sister blog, Epicenter, you can find out about the new Chrome OS that it will run, together with the Chrome Store, from my venerable coworker Michael Calore. And if you wish a of these prohibited machines? Bad luck, unless you obtain very, really fortunate and are agreed is to commander program.
With Chrome OS, Google Doubles Down on the Cloud [Epicenter]
Cr-48 Chrome Notebook [Google]
See Also:
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
Chrome Store Possibly Launching Dec. 7
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