Yay! CR 48 is here!

.. and I am blogging from it. The hardware seems alright. Getting a feel of the operating environment - called 'chrome OS'. So far, pretty snappy and looks good for internet addicts - especially if you use gmail, google docs, google reader, flikr, pandora, facebook and youtube like me :)
More reviews later.
And, yes the tracker website(in my previous post) showed that a CR 48 was being shipped to my area code! so the site seems to be working. However, there was no indication from Google whether they are sending anything my way.

Chrome OS? what the heck?

Headline in one of India's English news paper read : "Google to challenge Microsoft with new operating system" - as I read the piece I had this strange feeling of mixed emotion that ranged from being pissed-off to starting to LMAO. First off, Chrome OS targeted for netbooks/nettops can't even be called an operating system - it is a shame to the years and years of human labor and hard work involved in developing other great OSs. It may be an operating environment. And god, it is going to be based on chrome? well, who uses chrome? how soon does google think to capture the internet browser market share from IE/Safari and Firefox? - and what is the market share of netbooks? Who even cares? it may be around 5% of the whole computer/mobile device market - I know how many people in India uses netbooks - "0" - that is how many. - Oh well, that is where Google is going to give M$ for a run for its money.
Pissed off both at the Newspaper as well as google's lack of imagination in projecting Chrome OS as the next Microsoft basher....