Google's Laptop, Cr-48

[yellow]

Well I will probably sell mine in 10-20 years or donate it to a museum. Come on, that thing would be worth a lot. "Google's First Laptop. Only 60,000 Ever Made." I can see the dollar signs now.

Google didn't say they wanted it back? I'm rather surprised at that..

 

[InsanelyApple]

Google didn't say they wanted it back? I'm rather surprised at that..

Not that I ever saw. Even if they did, I could probably say it was stolen. *shrug*

 

[roadbloc]

Not that I ever saw. Even if they did, I could probably say it was stolen. *shrug*

Google know everything. They will know when you use it. They will know how you use it. They will know how often you use it. Knowing Google, they could also probably disable it.

 

[Melrose]

This is like Big Brother waiting to happen. In the sign-up form for the laptop, you must agree to terms of use that allows Google to monitor your activities on the machine. Lovely. Imagine if Microsoft tried something like that.. the government would have a hernia. Google gets away with some lousy stuff.

 

[b0blndsy]

Well, laptop manufacturers are suppose to start releasing Chrome-OS laptops in Spring. Also I see many on eBay, so you could try that, but it costs money that way. I applied the good old fashion way.

Any idea what wud be a the approx. cost of this google notebook.

 

[*LTD*]

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Aren't they giving it away for free? How good could it be? Seems like a netbook of some kind running some OS with a horrid UI. Do we need these now that tablets and slates will be the norm? What is the point of this, other than to equip the third world with something? A nice thing, to be sure, but not exactly anything to write home about. This has been attempted before with mixed results.

Besides, it comes with all the concerns and privacy pitfalls all Google products come with, since Google is an advertising company first, and everything else second.

In Soviet Russia, Google searches YOU!

 

[shingi70]

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Aren't they giving it away for free? How good could it be? Seems like a netbook of some kind running some OS with a horrid UI. Do we need these now that tablets and slates will be the norm? What is the point of this, other than to equip the third world with something? A nice thing, to be sure, but not exactly anything to write home about. This has been attempted before with mixed results.

Besides, it comes with all the concerns and privacy pitfalls all Google products come with, since Google is an advertising company first, and everything else second.

In Soviet Russia, Google searches YOU!

well its only running a web browser. But Until apple steps up and tries to step up its cloud game. I mean mobile me is horrid, i mean google sets the bar for cloud, but even microsoft has better cloud storage at this point.

 

[c0l3a5h3r]

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I don't like the idea of having JUST a web browser on a computer. I'd say about only 50% of my time on a computer is on the browser. Also the lack of a cd drive and inability to run .exe files would make me never use one of those. Nice concept though!

 

[neko girl]

This is like Big Brother waiting to happen. In the sign-up form for the laptop, you must agree to terms of use that allows Google to monitor your activities on the machine. Lovely. Imagine if Microsoft tried something like that.. the government would have a hernia. Google gets away with some lousy stuff.

War is peace. Truth is a lie.

Somehow it seems interesting that the basic need for data collection for purposes of serving up ads has been taken up so vehemently by the largely antidisestablishmentarianist tech community as a good and "free" thing.