Google rolling out Pilot Program

[Wabsta]

If only I lived in the US of A...

so true :/

You're from the Netherlands, ofcourse you don't want to live in the USA, silly Ecko. (SUDDENLY, AGE RESTRICTIONS, EVERYWHERE)

Anyway, it's cool that ChromeOS is comming closer, I may buy a netbook when it gets released.
It would be cool if they did this in the Netherlands too tho..

EDIT: Nvm Ecko, saw that you're 21 already, so, (SUDDENLY, RESTRICTIONS, EVERYWHERE)

 

[Langin]

If only I lived in the US of A...

so true :/

You're from the Netherlands, ofcourse you don't want to live in the USA, silly Ecko. (SUDDENLY, AGE RESTRICTIONS, EVERYWHERE)

Anyway, it's cool that ChromeOS is comming closer, I may buy a netbook when it gets released.
It would be cool if they did this in the Netherlands too tho..

EDIT: Nvm Ecko, saw that you're 21 already, so, (SUDDENLY, RESTRICTIONS, EVERYWHERE)

Just try to enter, I did as well.

Edit: you may never know, they can chose you!

 

[Devin]

I signed me, and my mother up. Even though I am only 15 years old, I believe that I could give them great feedback/support on the new Chrome Notebook.

 

[SifJar]

How much space does this thing have on its hard drive?

wait, ehm only 20 GB SSD?

16GB, and its replaceable. So you could stick in a cheap larger one.

Anyone know anything about the "jailbreak switch" that was mentioned before it started shipping? What exactly does it do, does it allow you to dual boot another OS? Is it a physical hardware switch e.g. on the side of the netbook?

 

[DaRk_ViVi]

Well I signed up even if I'm in Italy. xD
After all, nobody blocked me from selecting Country -> Italy in the Pilot Program.

 

[Advi]

I signed me, and my mother up. Even though I am only 15 years old, I believe that I could give them great feedback/support on the new Chrome Notebook.

I would be surprised if they even cared about your age.

Also, about the capacity, that's still huge when you consider the device is only intended to be used as an Internet device. The tradeoff of capacity for an SSD was smart in my opinion; faster boot times and lower power consumption.

 

[Tornadosurvives]

Lol I signed up as well. It would be nice to receive one

I'm 14 and I don't care about the age restriction

 

[Devin]

Now that I think about it. My father is also looking for a light weight OS for himself, and his employees. I'm mostly likely going to give him a call, to see if he'd be interested in signing his business up for the Chrome Notebook. (Prototype I presume.) I'll have to research the Chrome OS to see if it's what he's looking for.

 

[ThePowerOutage]

How much space does this thing have on its hard drive?

wait, ehm only 20 GB SSD?

16GB, and its replaceable. So you could stick in a cheap larger one.

Anyone know anything about the "jailbreak switch" that was mentioned before it started shipping? What exactly does it do, does it allow you to dual boot another OS? Is it a physical hardware switch e.g. on the side of the netbook?

It allows you to go into "Developer Mode" where you can use the shell.
I'm sure someone will get Windows on this, but remember the main reason Google are sending these things out is to get feedback and bug reports.

 

[SifJar]

How much space does this thing have on its hard drive?

wait, ehm only 20 GB SSD?

16GB, and its replaceable. So you could stick in a cheap larger one.

Anyone know anything about the "jailbreak switch" that was mentioned before it started shipping? What exactly does it do, does it allow you to dual boot another OS? Is it a physical hardware switch e.g. on the side of the netbook?

It allows you to go into "Developer Mode" where you can use the shell.
I'm sure someone will get Windows on this, but remember the main reason Google are sending these things out is to get feedback and bug reports.

All you get is shell access? Meh, that sounds fairly boring...

 

[ThePowerOutage]

How much space does this thing have on its hard drive?

wait, ehm only 20 GB SSD?

16GB, and its replaceable. So you could stick in a cheap larger one.

Anyone know anything about the "jailbreak switch" that was mentioned before it started shipping? What exactly does it do, does it allow you to dual boot another OS? Is it a physical hardware switch e.g. on the side of the netbook?

It allows you to go into "Developer Mode" where you can use the shell.
I'm sure someone will get Windows on this, but remember the main reason Google are sending these things out is to get feedback and bug reports.

All you get is shell access? Meh, that sounds fairly boring...

There is a lot to be done in shell...
(Install Gnome, ect.)

 

[m3rox]

signed up, hope I qualify

 

[Wabsta]

If only I lived in the US of A...

so true :/

You're from the Netherlands, ofcourse you don't want to live in the USA, silly Ecko. (SUDDENLY, AGE RESTRICTIONS, EVERYWHERE)

Anyway, it's cool that ChromeOS is comming closer, I may buy a netbook when it gets released.
It would be cool if they did this in the Netherlands too tho..

EDIT: Nvm Ecko, saw that you're 21 already, so, (SUDDENLY, RESTRICTIONS, EVERYWHERE)

Just try to enter, I did as well.

Edit: you may never know, they can chose you!

Well, thanks for motivating me to do that, just applied

 

[Advi]

How much space does this thing have on its hard drive?

wait, ehm only 20 GB SSD?

16GB, and its replaceable. So you could stick in a cheap larger one.

Anyone know anything about the "jailbreak switch" that was mentioned before it started shipping? What exactly does it do, does it allow you to dual boot another OS? Is it a physical hardware switch e.g. on the side of the netbook?

It allows you to go into "Developer Mode" where you can use the shell.
I'm sure someone will get Windows on this, but remember the main reason Google are sending these things out is to get feedback and bug reports.

All you get is shell access? Meh, that sounds fairly boring...

There is a lot to be done in shell...
(Install Gnome, ect.)

This device's specifications are kinda wimpy so a desktop environment like LXDE would be better. Especially since the storage capacity is pretty small, and GNOME's install size is pretty big.

 

[murkurie]

How much space does this thing have on its hard drive?

wait, ehm only 20 GB SSD?

16GB, and its replaceable. So you could stick in a cheap larger one.

Anyone know anything about the "jailbreak switch" that was mentioned before it started shipping? What exactly does it do, does it allow you to dual boot another OS? Is it a physical hardware switch e.g. on the side of the netbook?

I wish every thing would stop being called Jailbreak, all it is dev mode access.

And for the people outside the US signing up, even if you are chosen, you would wouldn't get it, there shipping via UPS, who will probably just refuse to send. and if you did get one, the free 3g wouldn't work, verizon only, which means EVDO/CDMA, no gsm.

 

[shadow1w2]

I got an email on this on the 7th and signed up ASAP.
Knowing my luck I won't get one no matter what but I'm still kinda hoping.

I'm pretty sure I'd be a good feedback giving user, so their loss.

Maybe I'll write a review for my fellow GBAtempers on how well it does gaming wise.

I'm thinking minecraft all over the place first chance. xD
Plus ofcourse some emulators.

Very curious about that machine.

Ok enough dreaming of free crap....

 

[Rydian]

I'm thinking minecraft all over the place first chance. xD
Plus ofcourse some emulators.

Very curious about that machine.

Ok enough dreaming of free crap....

This is not a normal netbook. Do you even know what the Chrome OS is?

How many of you signed up without even knowing what the fuck this product is?

It's not some normal netbook with google chrome as the default browser, I'm telling you that right now.

 

[Joe88]

im pretty sure barely anybody in this thread knows what it is
most of which are thinking they are still getting one and gonna install windows 7 on it

 

[DeMoN]

I chose the Education category and it kept asking me about my business. What the hell?

 

[Gh0sti]

@Rydian, yea i did take a look at what google chrome os is its just pretty much the web browser itself that automatically starts, and there's an app store to run google chrome apps from a web based browser, all of your programs will be saved in a cloud base, so that if you lose your netbook or want to continue using another netbook that uses google chrome just login and resume from where you were, this net book is just for web browsing and doing your work online, nothing like windows at all and a faster boot time which is only 10secs from turned off and free 3G network with it being 100mbs, by the way anyone know what that is like just having 100mbs? is that like bandwith or how much you can download?