The iPad has proven itself to be one of the hottest products of The Crand Chrome OS in general--is a product in search of a need. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Of course, you can delete files by clicking the arrow that appears next to each and selecting Delete the only option. Depending on which site you visit or extension you use, you will get a different type of upload dialog box. On Google services, such as Google Docs and Gmail, this box is a very stripped down white box that looks like the downloads box and just shows your files and folders from Downloads.
Above the two panes is a a series of buttons corresponding to your location in the file tree so you can easily go back up a folder. However, this dialog box is confusing because it starts you in the root of the file system, not in your Downloads folder.
The only real purpose of this dialog box is to allow you to upload files. Just like PC and Mac-based Chrome users, you can visit the Chome web store to see a huge list of thousands of available web apps and extensions.
However, what Google calls web apps, some call interactive web sites. Most of the apps we saw in the web store are free, but a few titles do charge a fee to access them, which is charged by Google checkout.
Currently, the top paid apps in the Chrome Web store are all casual games like Real Solitaire and Toddler Jukebox, a musical game for kids. Though we have no way of benchmarking the Cr, our experience shows that performance was adequate for surfing the web and switch tabs, but weak when doing anything that involved a little bit more power, like playing video.
As stated above, the webcam video was choppy and audio degraded a great deal just from putting the chat window in a background tab. At present, the Cr does not cut it as a media machine. No Atom-based netbook has ever played video this poorly. We have heard that Adobe is coming out with a new version of Flash for Chrome OS that is designed to improve performance. However, we were able to play music that we streamed from Napster. However, in our use, the netbook lasted a very long time on a charge.
We used the system for about 6 hours, with a few minutes here and there of letting it sleep, and watched the battery percentage drop from about 90 percent to 28 percent. One of the most highly-touted features of Chrome OS netbooks like the Cr is their built-in 3G cards that come with some free data, courtesy of Verizon.
S; a SIM card slot sits underneath the battery. But for those who do not know any notebook other than what they use in schools for writing the answers, a Notebook is a portable computer; another name for the device, which we also call 'Laptop'.
But Chrome CR Notebook is not exactly a laptop. It falls more in the category of netbook. Netbooks are small laptops which are small in size, low on processing power, have smaller screen, cramped keyboard and a small touchpad to let you do the minimal work. The Chrome CR Notebook falls in this category. Its the hardware which decides how fast a computer is going to be, what it will be able to do and what it will not. So lets first see what Chrome CR Notebook contains and of course we are going to tell you what each part does, and its limitations.
Lets start. The dimension of any device governs what it can contain. The phrase 'the bigger, the better' is quite correct when we relate 'features' with 'dimension'. Its just like you can't have a large touchscreen in a small phone.
Since Chrome CR is a netbook, it is small and is made for casual uses only. The dimensions of Chrome CR are good when we consider the use of this machine. Processor in Chrome CR Notebook - In any device which can calculate, the processor is the most important thing to look after.
A processor decides what a computer will be capable of doing. So this means that while, it will be able to do only one work at a time, the processor can be utilized to its utmost limit with higher productivity. Also, its low power consumption of only 6. Another reason why it is an intelligent choice made by Google is that it contains the graphics processor inside the CPU and thus relieves a lot of load and hence power consumption from the rest of the system making it more efficient!
What is Hyper-threading? Well, this is asked quite a number of times about 'what is hyper-threading '. To understand this, you should know that the processor itself contains small memory areas which are called registers. When you run a program, the same set of registers are used which are used to run another program. When the operating system wants to run another program, it will load a different set of data in the same registers. With hyper-threading , the processor is given two sets of registers, so that the operating system can keep both the sets of registers full with data so that the operating system spends less time to load the data into the registers.
It can use the already loaded data contained in the second set of registers. This technique of creating two different sets of registers for same processing unit is called 'hyper-threading'. The RAM is used by the processor more often than the hard disk. Anything that is to be processed is first loaded into the RAM before being processed.
So more RAM means more things, which in turn means better processing speed. This is a significant point in the hardware configuration of Chrome CR Notebook because with a slower processor like the Intel Atom, having less memory can slow things too much. It supports If you are frightened by the terms, I would politely ask you to ignore them as they are a bit technical and not really of concern.
What you need to know in short is that you just do not need to worry. This device supports all the wireless standards and no matter what type of hotspot you are trying to connect to, you will succeed!
Wireless Encryption is a concern for most people who use wireless and are savvy about how to protect the data that comes in and goes out of the device. Once again, you can be happy that you will be able to connect to the encrypted networks as well! It is this card which makes this device do what we have mentioned just above: 'connect to other wireless devices'.
Currently, it comes only with a 16 GB SSD and you have to rely on the external storage media if you want to have more storage! This means that the screen is crisp and clear. Keyboard in Chrome CR Notebook - Its here that Google has made the users compromise by removing the function keys as well as the caps lock key.
The reason why this has been done is that, while caps lock key is one of the least used ones on the keyboard, the function keys have no meaning in the Google Chrome OS which runs this machine and hence were dropped off.
Since Google is famous for the search, they have actually placed a 'search' button in place of the caps lock key! Pointing Device touchpad in Chrome CR Notebook - As a pointing device, the device comes with a multi-touch capable trackpad and you would be able to command the machine without having to click buttons as you do on a normal laptop.
However, if you have ever used a macbook, you will have nothing new here. Graphics in Chrome CR Notebook - As we already said that the device is powered by the Intel Atom processor , which also acts as a graphics processor, there is no point in repeating the details. A microphone is also built in the machine at the top. Webcam in Chrome CR Notebook - Not to a surprise, the machine comes with an built-in webcam which is placed above the screen.
This is very expected because the machine is designed with the internet user in mind and video chats are no more a fashion but an everyday technology and a need for some. This is, as always a nice feature for those who carry a camera around to capture images and transfer them to the netbook, now and then. While watching videos, the battery would last about 1. So what does it all mean? Well, the Chrome CR Notebook seems to be having all the problems any other netbook would have and is still a good one due to the intelligent choices made by Google in the hardware configuration.
The hardware of Chrome CR Notebook is capable of doing all the entry level work as per the hardware configuration. However, if you think that you want to play games on this netbook, then you will be disappointed not only because of its hardware but also because of the way the software is pre-installed on Chrome CR Notebook.
Pros of the hardware configuration of Chrome CR Notebook The device comes built in with the 3G option so you will not have to carry the USB dongle for data transfers on the move. Since Chrome CR Notebook is heavily dependent on the internet connection for the things to work, it is a nice addition to the regular netbook hardware by Google. One of those is the lack of function keys and replacing caps lock with the search key. People may accidentally press wrong buttons which can easily get irritating and would require a lot of practice to get used to.
There are also some significant downsides on the software part which Google has left behind and we are going to talk about that very soon. Another downside of this notebook is that there is no Ethernet port on this device, which means that you cannot plug the Chrome CR Notebook to your LAN and start working. Initially, when I took it out of the box, I sort of wanted to laugh at the Cr Jason compared its look to that of one of the old inch PowerBook G4s.
In fact, when you open it up and start typing on it, it feels very similar to that MacBook. Of course, that MacBook is also a few years old already. And when compared to the new MacBook Air , this thing looks like a bloated dog. One covered in some kind of rubber blanket. But again, this is a prototype device. So we have to cut Google some slack here.
Okay, so I took it out of the box and laughed. But then I opened the lid. Immediately, the thing booted up. No need to press the power button. After a few minutes reading it, I was asked to take a picture of myself for my profile picture with the built-in camera above the screen , then I was all ready to go.
I signed in with my Google account, and the browser launched. My bookmarks, extensions, and web apps were all automatically synced. I was ready to go pretty much instantly. But the love affair quickly turned sour when I started using the Cr trackpad. Those bug reports from a few weeks ago make sense now. If they sold this product with this trackpad, Google may not be allowed to ever attempt to make another branded product ever again.
Every time I point at something and click down, the cursor moves below or above where I had originally pointed. But I have to guess which it will be. Trying to double click with two fingers is even worse. To get it to work, you essentially have to lift two fingers about a foot in the air, then bring them down in a perfectly straight line at a rapid speed while making sure that they both hit the pad at the exact same time.
Two finger scrolling? This trackpad is a disgrace. Moving on. So, the trackpad quickly soured my Chrome OS experience. But after I figured out little tricks to better maneuver mainly using the excellent keyboard and its shortcuts , I was back on track.
After a day, I was frustrated. But after two days, I was really, really liking Chrome OS. And even certain things about the Cr specifically. For example, every computer should absolutely have a search button in place of caps lock.
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