Google rolling out Pilot Program

[Rydian]

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

Same here, then I realized those are for people ordering for their company or a place they run to test it in a work environment, individuals should choose "individual".

 

[DsHacker14]

I submitted an application. Hopefully I get one to test. :3

 

[SifJar]

is that like bandwith or how much you can download?

Yes. (Maybe you should learn what bandwidth is).

 

[Rydian]

Actually bandwidth is max speed,

What people often call "bandwidth" is really "total of bandwidth usage in a specified period", so people find it easier to call THAT bandwidth and to call bandwidth "speed".

 

[Gh0sti]

yea but you can go over that 100mbs then they start charging you so how does that work out is it usage or downloading? thats what im confused about

 

[Joe88]

ups has started encrypting the shipment numbers so they cant be tracked

 

[Sterling]

ups has started encrypting the shipment numbers so they cant be tracked

Lol, good for them.

 

[Joe88]

a gamer has recracked it

only a few more thousand shipped today

 

[murkurie]

ups has started encrypting the shipment numbers so they cant be tracked

Tracker was updated

Google, didn't encrypt it, they just randomized them, so no more easy to guess numbers, but the guy who runs the tracker figured it already, but he removed the ability to see the ref # or the tracking number because it broke the UPS TOS, all it shows now is the city and zip code.

 

[SifJar]

yea but you can go over that 100mbs then they start charging you so how does that work out is it usage or downloading? thats what im confused about

Usage IS downloading. If you browse to a web page, the page DOWNLOADS onto your computer. That's how the internet works.

 

[Rydian]

I just got trolled so hard. Came home to find a UPS truck coming out of my street, turns out it was for the neighbors.

 

[Devin]

I just got trolled so hard. Came home to find a UPS truck coming out of my street, turns out it was for the neighbors.

I typed in my City, and State and it brought up a single result....3 area codes away from my house.

 

[Sterling]

I just got trolled so hard. Came home to find a UPS truck coming out of my street, turns out it was for the neighbors.

Speak for yourself, the doorbell woke me up... The UPS guy brought us a package, it was a metal detector.

 

[shadow1w2]

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.

It runs Java.
Chrome OS, is an OS.
The rest is a normal netbook with a minimal hardware set.
It just runs Chrome OS which is Chrome browser based and by default should run Java and Flash.
Plenty of emulators made under Java.
Plus Minecraft was made in Java.

My curiousness is about how well the OS handles this stuff.
Considering the CPU it should have it should be fine though but that's the first thing I usually test.

No need to be frustrated with the overall number of entries. Google is picking who gets in. So its really up to them despite the numbers.

 

[Joe88]

I doubt it will handle minecraft at any near decent / acceptable framerate

even my laptop has trouble with minecraft

 

[shadow1w2]

I doubt it will handle minecraft at any near decent / acceptable framerate

even my laptop has trouble with minecraft

Ya same here.
But mines like two years old by now.

Not gonna stop me from trying it on a Chrome OS netbook though.
I managed to run it just fine on a netbook on demo in a store once though.
Cheapest one I could find too, and it ran smoothly.
So considering they might be using up to date or semi up to date hardware it should be fine I bet.

I'm just curious to find out is all.

 

[murkurie]

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.

It runs Java.
Chrome OS, is an OS.
The rest is a normal netbook with a minimal hardware set.
It just runs Chrome OS which is Chrome browser based and by default should run Java and Flash.
Plenty of emulators made under Java.
Plus Minecraft was made in Java.

My curiousness is about how well the OS handles this stuff.
Considering the CPU it should have it should be fine though but that's the first thing I usually test.

No need to be frustrated with the overall number of entries. Google is picking who gets in. So its really up to them despite the numbers.

As far, as I have heard there is no java on it, it doesn't have a desktop, chromeOS is basically a bootable broswer. But using dev mode, someone did dual boot with ubuntu, so you could play minecraft on it I guess

 

[Joe88]

you mean classic?

I was referring to alpha, classic works fine for me

I have a amd athlon II X2 and a radeon 4100 and still have framerate hipups

 

[Devin]

25 Google Chrome Notebooks were harmed in this video, but no data was lost.

A video, for lol.

 

[shadow1w2]

Woot, awesome video.
If just to watch laptops get smashed. xD

As far, as I have heard there is no java on it, it doesn't have a desktop, chromeOS is basically a bootable broswer. But using dev mode, someone did dual boot with ubuntu, so you could play minecraft on it I guess

You need a desktop to run Java?
Java is used in alot of Google Apps ya know.
You can't really have a web browser these days without a java plugin.
Pretty much I was thinking of it running through the web browser, nothing fancy. Though that would work just fine.
The question rather is how well does non casual programs run on the thing as its mostly intended for Google Apps.
Its just a random curiousity off the top of my head anyway.

Ubuntu is awesome though.


QUOTE(Joe88 @ Dec 16 2010, 12:33 AM) you mean classic?

I was referring to alpha, classic works fine for me

I have a amd athlon II X2 and a radeon 4100 and still have framerate hipups

I was reffering to Alpha as well.
On my laptop Alpha hiccups only rarely but slows down on Normal or higher view distance.
Normal is fine unless I'm outside.

Right now my laptop is the only thing that can run the game in my house.