Tag Archive : chromeOS

The “Wn-R48″ (Windows on the Cr-48)

Posted on July 20, 2011 in: Projects, Work Instructions|2 Comments

If you can get past the awful pun in the title, you may actually find this useful! Out of the 4 operating systems I’ve now tested, Windows is by far the best and most stable on the Cr-48. It works almost fully after a bit of tweaking (the WWAN mobile broadband card requires some hacking [...]

When Awe met Some. The Cr-48 and Gnome3.

Posted on May 28, 2011 in: Projects, Work Instructions|Post Comment

I mentioned previously how although I really like the hardware in the Cr-48, I had been having problems living completely “in the cloud”. Even though I spend 90% of my day in the cloud, for that last 10% I require a full desktop experience to do with whatever I need to. The last thing I [...]

Living with Google’s Cr-48 and the cloud.

Posted on May 28, 2011 in: Projects, Reviews|7 Comments

Google’s Cr-48 has been out for quite a long time now. So long, infact, that the beta testing phase is practically over and Google has moved from the Cr-48 to releasing the OS to two competing manufacturers – Acer and Samsung. So why then, I hear you ask, am I choosing to write about my feelings [...]

Hexxeh’s Google Chrome OS builds

Posted on April 20, 2010 in: Reviews|Post Comment

Recently I was interested in viewing the latest developments on Google’s Chrome OS given that it will be released in the second half of 2010. It’s not got long to go now, and I assumed that I’d be able to find a beta release built somewhere on the net. I have to say I didn’t [...]

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