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It's a fun little machine, extremely secure, but with a lot of growth still required. 1) Setup took several days and a call from a Google Chrome Ninja (support team) between me and Verizon, since the first time I signed up, it went to a crashed page due to checking 'disallow third-party cookies', and I submitted twice. After that, it was seamless, with a little indicator just like wifi. 2) Camera is bleh, uploading to Picasa was okay with stuff downloaded from the Web browser, though I didn't try any SD cards. 3) Battery life was good, though I don't move around a lot with mine. 4) No prompts really, just a tiny little green up arrow. If you ever turn it off, you'll never even notice. It's so bad I sent in feedback asking for them to send more info about changes... 5) Google apps run okay. Offline still isn't here, which will be a major improvement. Docs, Music, Gmail, etc. all operate well, but seemed to suck down CPU time, even going so far as to turn on the fan (CR48 was single core though, the new ones have dual core). Offline is my number one requirement which isn't fulfilled yet now that Google Music is available. One of the best things I found about using the Chromebook was that I had migrated most of my stuff to "The Cloud" so I could use it full time as my main computer. When I installed a new hard drive in my desktop and reinstalled Windows, all it took was loading Chrome and hitting 'sync', and I was 90% back to where I was. |