This week at LWN: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2011 10:37 PM
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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 [Cr-48] 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.

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