My Google Chrome Cr-48 notebook has just arrived. For my first day
with it, I decided a good torture test would be to unplug my Windows 7
machine and see how the Google laptop worked in its place. Let’s go!
Chrome, Chromium & What Is The Cr-48?
Before I dive in, some background about the computer. Let’s start with Chrome. That’s Google’s web browser, which was launched
back in September 2008. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a browser
just like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Google released its own browser
saying it hoped that it would help keep the web browser space
competitive and better able to handle increasingly sophisticated
software programs and applications that run within the browser itself.
For example, in the "old days” of personal computers, you had
software that you installed to do w
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