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Discussion in 'Technology' started by Ricambi America, May 19, 2011.

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  1. Ricambi America

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    #1 Ricambi America, May 19, 2011
    Its come a long way since the early FLOW version of Chromium! I am now using the latest Hexxeh build on a bootable SD chip on this EEEpc. Very very nice. From stone cold, it booted in < 20 seconds.

    Full sync with my Google accounts is pretty amazing. Wifi, screen camera, etc... all work native in the "OS".

    Anyone else try it yet?
     
  2. TheBigEasy

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    #2 TheBigEasy, May 20, 2011
    Are they selling it yet? Or is still in beta?
     
  3. Ricambi America

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    #3 Ricambi America, May 20, 2011
    Chromebooks go on sale June 15th.

    I installed the flash bootable Chromium OS (which is the same as the CR48 or whatever Google gave away to beta testers) onto my little netbook.
     
  4. 430man

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    #4 430man, May 20, 2011
    No thanks, trusting google with that much of my personal information is like trusting a serial-rapist with my hot girlfriend.
     
  5. iceburns288

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    #5 iceburns288, May 21, 2011
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    Daniel, what version are you running? I was on the dev channel on my Cr-48 but 12.433 dev was unstable, so I flipped back to beta. The latest update feels a lot more like a finished product.

    http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6848/screenshot2011052119160.png

    EDIT I'll add that the Atom in the Cr-48 is crap but this thing boots from cold in an average of 14 secs. The wake-up is instant, but it burns too much battery on standby, they need to optimize that.
     
  6. Ricambi America

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    #6 Ricambi America, May 21, 2011
    Hexxah builds nightly releases. On Thursday(?) I upped again to "0.13.530.re41b1fe9"

    It has been quite stable. Considering it is little more than a browser on a wee bit of Linux, I'm not sure what I could do that'd break it.
     
  7. iceburns288

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    #7 iceburns288, May 23, 2011
    The boot time is now consistently around 6 seconds. Wow.
     
  8. Gran Drewismo

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    #8 Gran Drewismo, May 24, 2011
    Got mine today.

    Big Brother is now in my house.
     
  9. REMIX

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    #9 REMIX, May 24, 2011
    Win 7 64 boots for me from cold in less than 18 seconds.

    RMX
     

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