Jason compared its look to that of one of the old 12-inch PowerBook G4s. Initially, when I took it out of the box, I sort of wanted to laugh at the Cr-48. Also, I likely have a different perspective as I’m currently traveling - something which a Chrome notebook should be perfect for. While Jason wrote up his initial thoughts after a day with the device, I’ve been using it as my primary machine for just about three days now.

But the only reason it’s so annoying is because Chrome OS, even in its very early, fairly rough stage, is that good.

Actually, maybe not so much bad, as annoying as all hell. Plus, there’s a lot of interest in this particular device among our readers, so I’m going to talk about it. But it’s pretty much impossible to avoid talking about the hardware here because for most of us, it is the first and only gateway we’ve had into Chrome OS.

As such, they’ve more or less asked those they’ve sent it to not to review it as a completed product. Now, Google has made it very clear that they don’t intend to release this product as it stands. (Well, at least not until that AT&T exclusivity ends.) But until three days ago, I had never used a product with attributes that are both insanely awesome and shockingly awful at the same time. Every piece of technology has both good and bad attributes.

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