7 Days With a Google Chromebook

jfruhlinger writes "Now that Chromebook laptops are finally here, the question is: can you really do serious work with them? The only way to find out is to dive on in, and so Steven Vaughn-Nichols spent a week using a Chromebook for all his daily computing tasks. In the end, he was mostly positive on the experience — but was frustrated by a number of rough edges, including poor documentation and a failure of some components of the system to work together."

Comments

Re:"Documentation"?

[Cro Magnon]

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else should have documentation.

Re:Can you develop on it?

[Anonymous Coward]

You probably wouldn't want to compile things directly on it, but it does have a terminal you can use to SSH into a better dev environment.

Cloud Print on linux

[Rick Richardson]

FYI, Cloud Print service:

$ git clone https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint.git
Cloning into cloudprint...
remote: Counting objects: 109, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (107/107), done.
remote: Total 109 (delta 47), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (109/109), 31.77 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (47/47), done.

$ cd cloudprint
$ root python setup.py install
[snip]

$ root pip-python install daemon
Downloading/unpacking daemon
Running setup.py egg_info for package daemon

Installing collected packages: daemon
Running setup.py install for daemon

Successfully installed daemon

$ cloudprint -d
Skipping test-raw
Updated Printer test-1020
Updated Printer test-c310dn
Updated Printer mc2530
Updated Printer mc1600Wc
Updated Printer aaaa
Updated Printer mc2300c
Updated Printer test-1500
Updated Printer test-okiC110
Updated Printer test-clp315
Updated Printer cp1025nw
Updated Printer test-p1505
Updated Printer xrx6110
Updated Printer test
Updated Printer test-Oki-C3100
Updated Printer p1505n
Updated Printer test-p1102
Updated Printer test-cp1025
Updated Printer test-C3300
Updated Printer test-1680MF
Updated Printer clp315
Updated Printer test-hp2600
Updated Printer hp1020
Updated Printer p1102w
Updated Printer HP-LaserJet-Professional-P1102w
Updated Printer hp2600
Updated Printer cp1215
Updated Printer p1102-hpcups
Updated Printer Cups-PDF
Updated Printer test-clp300
Updated Printer GnomeManualDuplex
Updated Printer p1005
Updated Printer test-m1319
Updated Printer HP-LaserJet-1000
Updated Printer test-p2035
Updated Printer mc2530c
Updated Printer xrx6110c
Updated Printer test-CLP-610
Updated Printer test-KM-1635
$

Then:
   $ firefox http://www.google.com/cloudprint/manage.html

And on your Android tablet:
   https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pauloslf.cloudprint

Works good here.

"Now that it's finally here"...?

[TheBrutalTruth]

Really? Have had mine for 8 months... And all of you haters - USE ONE. Really. Please try before you comment on it - about it's limitations, it's unsuitability, it's not good for daily tasks, etc... Maybe it's because I don't play WoW or some shit in my parents basement - but for what I do, email, surfing, music - it's perfect. Instant on, and iPad battery life (the cr-48 anyways). And free wireless for 2 years? Even at a paltry 100MB/month - perfect for when the bloodsuckers known as PEPCO or Comcast go down. Just enough web use for emergency usage. And it tethers to my phone just peachy. It DOES have local storage, GPS, Bluetooth, etc. Just get r00t, weenies... Most of all - it's WIP folks. My cr-48 updates constantly (reboots faster than you can blink) and it's been neat to see it evolve - rapidly - over just 8 months.