Archive for December, 2010

Poppit And Entaglement Come Pre-Installed On Chrome 10

by Donovan Leiber on December 20th, 2010

If you’ve installed Chrome 10 from the Dev Channel, you may be surprised to see 2 games pre-installed that you didn’t actually install yourself: Poppit and Entanglement. Keep in mind these come pre-packaged on all Chrome installs except for Chrome OS. Exactly why they’re installed I’m unsure. Perhaps Google is simply trying to give users [...]


Cr-48 – Unboxing The First Chromeputer

by Talton "phases" Pettigrew on December 16th, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous article, one of our writers has had the Cr-48 for about a week now. He’s been busy putting some miles on it so that it will have a chance to leave an impression on him, but in the meantime we wanted to bring you an unboxing video to hold [...]


Google’s Cr-48 running Ubuntu

by webmastir on December 15th, 2010

Well, I can’t say I didn’t see this coming, but apparently there’s a write up already available on how to get Chrome OS to coexist with Ubuntu. If this sparks your interest, check out the video below & let us know what you think. Does it make you want one even more knowing that you’re [...]


Is Google Recalling Shipments Of Cr-48 Chrome Notebooks?

by Talton "phases" Pettigrew on December 14th, 2010

As many of you reading this know by now, Google announced a pilot program last week for their new Chrome OS notebook – the Cr-48. All you have to do is register for it and with any luck – you may get one.  One of our writers was lucky enough to be one of those [...]


GMail Creator Says Chrome OS Is Doomed

by Donovan Leiber on December 14th, 2010

We just got our hands on the CR-48 Chrome Notebook, the first official hardware for Chrome OS, and already the creator of GMail is predicting that Android will either kill or replace our beloved Chrome OS within the next year. Ouch. To be fair, Paul Buchheit is now a Facebook employee and we all know [...]


Cr-48 Chrome Notebook: We’ve Got It

by Donovan Leiber on December 12th, 2010

Whether you’ll call them Chrome Netbooks, Chrome Notebooks, Chrome Laptops, Chrome Computers, Chromeputers, or anything else, the first iteration of Chrome OS is available as an official piece of hardware. Introducing the Cr-48 Chrome Notebook: Google was kind enough to ship ChromeSpot our very own device, so I wanted to let you folks know that [...]