It has been icy here in DFW, where I live, and yesterday afternoon I received a knock at the door. I figured it was one of our friends who had gotten cabin fever and wanted to get out. As it turns out, it was UPS dropping off a surprise box.
Here's what I found when I opened it...
The laptop came with a sticker sheet to add to the lid...
The laptop box had this little quick start guide and the Intel card inside..
The laptop was packed in a pretty basic box...
The charger is actually really small compared to some of the bricks I have used in the past...
The laptop has a rubbery coating and a different style keyboard. The bar over the screen includes a webcam and a microphone.
The right side of the laptop has the power port, a USB port, a single speaker/microphone port, and an SD card reader.
The left side has a video port and the exhaust fan.
I decided to create this blog as a way to show my transition from using mostly Windows 7 as a desktop at home to the CR-48 laptop.
I originally requested a Google Chromium laptop because of my background in IT. I have 10 years of professional experience with Windows workstations and sever platforms, Fedora and Red Hat Linux, Cisco networks, as well as a number of applications for everything from scanning barcodes, to programing a weather station as well as the standard office products. Outside of my work experience, I have been taking computers apart and learning how the Internet connects our world together since the early nineties. I have seen the internet and personal computers shape the world in business, education, and everyday life.
Cloud computing has always been my dream, even before it was a catch phrase used by consultants and marketing analyst. The funny thing about living in the cloud is we already do a lot of it. Facebook, email, google searches for recipes, and online banking are all "cloud" or internet based services that we connect to with an internet browser.
As I write my journey to using a cloud based operating system I will hopefully help define the cloud and show examples of how our lives have and will continue to be shaped by this new generation of computers.
Cloud computing has always been my dream, even before it was a catch phrase used by consultants and marketing analyst. The funny thing about living in the cloud is we already do a lot of it. Facebook, email, google searches for recipes, and online banking are all "cloud" or internet based services that we connect to with an internet browser.
As I write my journey to using a cloud based operating system I will hopefully help define the cloud and show examples of how our lives have and will continue to be shaped by this new generation of computers.
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