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  1. Dec 9th, 2010, 09:47 AM #1
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    Exclamation Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    to folks in the US.

    You have to qualify by filling in a survey, but if you're interested, here's the link.

    http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-quiz.html
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Why US only?
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigB View Post
    Why US only?
    Easy to sue people who misuse the notebook, I suppose.

    Like nothing's stopping you from overwriting the operating system with another one, is there?
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    hmh...
    Good point
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Yes and you can't get to the survey using IE8. Says you need a modern browser like Chrome.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    That's just crap. Like a lot of apple services requiring you to access through Safari. Everyone's pushing their own junk on you.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Regarding the installation of your own OS... it would certainly be within Google's deviousness bracket to install a firmware hack (pre bootloader) that scans the partition table of the HDD and refuse to boot if it detects something other than Chrome OS on there.

    Circumventing such a thing would take more ingenuity than the average netbook user would possess. However it is (as you implied) unlikely that such a provision would be present on the netbooks.

    Who knows though?
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Quote Originally Posted by wossname View Post
    Regarding the installation of your own OS... it would certainly be within Google's deviousness bracket to install a firmware hack (pre bootloader) that scans the partition table of the HDD and refuse to boot if it detects something other than Chrome OS on there.

    Circumventing such a thing would take more ingenuity than the average netbook user would possess. However it is (as you implied) unlikely that such a provision would be present on the netbooks.

    Who knows though?
    One way to find out, hopefully they pick me as one of the people to send a laptop too...
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Just FYI, rings a cautious bell

    I didn't take the 'quiz'. Beware and ensure the page you go to to provide personal info is secure and a valid URL. Been a rash of hacks/viruses on facebook that follow similar a scenario.... Take quiz, ask for personal info, personal info used for spamming or worse
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Quote Originally Posted by wossname View Post
    Regarding the installation of your own OS... it would certainly be within Google's deviousness bracket to install a firmware hack (pre bootloader) that scans the partition table of the HDD and refuse to boot if it detects something other than Chrome OS on there.

    Circumventing such a thing would take more ingenuity than the average netbook user would possess. However it is (as you implied) unlikely that such a provision would be present on the netbooks.

    Who knows though?
    *Tinfoil hat on* They could do that...*tinfoil hat off*

    Or they could just use a bit of Javascript to find the OS from the browser's userstring, and reject it if it does not match Chromium OS's userstring...
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Right, for some reason, I assumed wossname was talking about downloading Google Chrome OS, not actually installing it. My bad.

    Won't happen again wossname. xoxoxo
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    US only and age limits. That's discriminatory.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Why are age limits discriminatory?
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Because it separates people into different categories without a really concrete reason.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    No concrete reasons? Would you prefer to have your products tested by kids? Other than common sense reasons, I'm sure there's a bundle of legal ones too.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Quote Originally Posted by baja_yu View Post
    That's just crap. Like a lot of apple services requiring you to access through Safari. Everyone's pushing their own junk on you.
    You should see Google Chrome Web Store. Essentially it is a glorified place to get glorified bookmarks. Only now you can buy some of these bookmarks/services directly.

    Seriously, what happened to just using Google for alternatives?... Oh wait...
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    i'm starting to wonder.. soon "websites" wont exist, its all gonna be "apps" lol..
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    Could you buy a couple keep one and sell the rest on E-Bay for us people who don't live in the US?
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

    A colleague of mine got one today.
    He's going to bring it in later during the week.
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    Re: Google's giving out chrome notebooks

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