Anyone using their Google Cr 48?

[whoknows87]

I received one a while ago used it for a few days then stored it, now I pulled it back out again , MBP is going through some repairs, this thing came in handy and is actually pretty cool , great battery life, very light and i noticed they recently made an update to the Chrome OS, anyone else using their device?

 

[Lucky736]

From time to time I fire it up. Been looking to trade it for something equally cool for a bit. Even as a web surfer it gets phenomenal battery life.

 

[Lucky736]

Anyone else are are we the only game in town?

 

[Michael Goff]

Wish I had one of those.

Do you guys know if it's better or worse than the recent Chromebook that Samsung put out?

 

[Lucky736]

Well the CR-48 should be a faster, since it uses a real processor rather than a fast smartphone processor, RAM is the same, HD is the same, screen on the CR48 is 13.3 and MATTE, battery life..... I got 8+ hours using it with Windows! Never really used the Chrome OS but I can only assume windows 7 is more power hungry. It is now back to Chrome OS and in it's box. New one has 3G if you goto the 330 model rather than the 249 model however the CR48 came with 2 years of free Verizion 3G once activated, never did this either. CR48 has a USB 2.0 port, new one has a 3.0 port. CR48 also has an SD slot, which came in nicely when it was used as a computer on the kitchen table to store music on, and the new one has HDMi vs VGA on CR48...... don't think either would matter on that end.

Honestly I'd say the CR48 is still a better version of it and even compared favorably to the 499 Chromebooks.

 

[ChazUK]

Well the CR-48 should be a faster, since it uses a real processor rather than a fast smartphone processor, RAM is the same, HD is the same, screen on the CR48 is 13.3 and MATTE, battery life.....

I very much doubt that the Intel Atom processor in the CR-48 and first gen Chromebooks beat by the new ARM based Exynos processors in the new 3 series.

http://www.conceivablytech.com/4517/products/hands-on-google-chrome-os-notebook-cr-48

The Cr-48 integrates a single core Atom N455 processors while the upcoming Acer and Samsung notebooks will get the dual-core N550. The Cr-48 scored 1280 points in the Google V8 (v5) benchmark and 1789.7 ms in Sunspider 0.9.1, which heavily depend on hardware power, and implies that the overall performance of the device is very limited.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/24/3549368/samsung-chromebook-review-series-3

The updated model — this year's Celeron-powered 550 — does better, but it can still grind to a halt under heavy loads. The new model clocks a SunSpider score of 704.1ms, compared to 950.8ms for the 550