I started exploring ChromeOS in January, saw the launch of Hexxeh's Flow in mid February, and have been sitting at the bottom of the Google dev waterfall ever since. I blogged back in February about my experiences and how I knew that the Cloud was just a short walk down the road... Well, Google and the ChromiumOS team certainly have created something special with ChromeOS.
I have not played with one of the beta CR-48 notebooks being sent to select developers and others, but I have taken the daily snapshot from Dec 7th for a test drive and it looks beta ready to me [hat/tip to Doug Anson of Dell for building the image!]. The UI/browser is Chrome, but all system functions you would normally control using the Windows GUI, are setting within your Chrome preferences. I will test downloading and uploading files later, but one thing I wanted to confirm... The netbook that is running it comes out of a full sleep/suspend in 2 seconds, e.g. fast ;-]
There is support for multiple users, guest access and the Chrome Web store is ready to go for all your web app needs.
I do not know if I will end up with a CR-48 or not, but seeing the number of machines the December 7th development snapshot runs on here at the house, I might not need one ;-]
Way to rock Googlers! Thank you for such a wonderful trip, however long and strange it ends up being... 2010 has been a blast... Seriously.
--egrep
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