The Google Notebook

[otc]

Do they really not tell you and it just shows up at your door randomly?

Apparently there are 2 destined to arrive in my zip code...but it is a big zip code

 

[whiteslashasian]

Originally Posted by otc

Do they really not tell you and it just shows up at your door randomly?

Apparently there are 2 destined to arrive in my zip code...but it is a big zip code

That is correct! Weird, isn't it?

 

[Kique]

Does anyone know how long the whole process takes? I signed up on the 13th, and at the time there wasn't any notebooks being sent to my area, now there's one that was shipped on the 14th.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I don't think I'm getting one.

 

[Xericx]

yeah me neither. meh.

none in my zip code.

i should buy an ipad to smite them!

 

[whiteslashasian]

Originally Posted by whiteslashasian

I signed up with my parents address (gf used our apartment). According to the Chrome Notebook tracker here I see that there's one set to arrive today!

Well, it definitely wasn't delivered to my parents house... I think they still have a quite a few more shipments to go through.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by Xericx

i should buy an ipad to smite them!

You would only end up smiting yourself.

 

[Stazy]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

You would only end up smiting yourself.
lol my brother has been wanting to get one to download textbooks on. I tell him for 3 months that a kindle is better suited for reading. Yesterday he bought an ipad. I hope he goes blind.

 

[Yggdrasil]

Put the iPad in a Blendtec blender. Then sprinkle the iPad dust into his eyes when he sleeps.

 

[Althis]

I like the way you think

 

[MikeDT]

Originally Posted by Stazy

The Google notebook is to be launched this coming year. I like the concept of cloud-based operating systems and am interested to see how it will stack up against Microsoft and Apple. The 2 years of free cellular service is a pretty generous offer as well. Anyone here going to buy one?

Nope. No internet = no computing.

Anyway I don't really want Google etc. giving undesirable third-parties, advertisers and government agencies access to my confidential and private data.

 

[N. McKay]

Originally Posted by otc

Instead of outlook, you use gmail
Instead of word, you use google docs and store your files online

this lets you use a dumb computer with a high end browser to do everything since stuff is stored and processed by a bunch of computers in a server farm (the cloud) and all you have to do is render the javascript to display it.

So, more or less the way things were in 1980, but with a better user interface...

I appreciate the explanation, though -- I was wondering too.

 

[rocks]

Originally Posted by Stazy

lol my brother has been wanting to get one to download textbooks on. I tell him for 3 months that a kindle is better suited for reading. Yesterday he bought an ipad. I hope he goes blind.

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by N. McKay

So, more or less the way things were in 1980, but with a better user interface...

I appreciate the explanation, though -- I was wondering too.

I loled.

 

[herman024]

Nice post keeps on posting this type of interesting and informative articles.
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