Anyone here playing with a chromebook?
I just picked up a Samsung Series 5. About 5 minutes after I opened the box, I “rooted” it and now I’m in the process of installing Ubuntu 10.1.
Pretty nice hardware so far, the laptop is pretty solid for $430. I’m interested in seeing how it does with ubuntu on the SSD.
It’s kind of pointless if you get one just run ubuntu on it. I run Ubuntu on a small netbook that I paid about 1/4 of that price for.
As for ChromeOS. I’m not a fan. It’s way too cloud dependent for my tastes.
What’s the size of it?
I like it. I feel it’s more well built which justifies the price I paid. Plus its google which is baller.
Yea build quality is definitely money well spent
Just got ubuntu running today, didn’t realize there are two levels of dev mode on the samsung which made it impossible to boot my second OS.
Runs pretty smoothly so far, however it really chugs along when trying to remove applications.
Still, I like looking up at my battery bar and it saying 8 hours remaining 
I have the CR-48 and while it works reasonably well, it also doesn’t do much. I’ve used it to SSH into UB’s servers, etc. but I’ve also submitted a million bug reports to Google since it crashes on me all the time, haha.
I’ve used various Linux distros from Ubuntu to Crunchbang to Joli but the CR-48 is not very powerful (the actual Chromebooks are faster) and I didn’t find the experience or hardware support to be worth the switch.
I don’t personally think what they’re currently offering is worth the money for most people. It will take off with Citrix and Netflix support but even then you’re looking at casual users and the occasional corporate environment. Depends on what you’re using it for though, obviously. Had they decided to include a text editor other than emacs in the root shell and a basic compiler (Google does tons of work with GCC, God knows why it’s not included) I would be using the laptop much more.