Chrome Notebooks: Connectivity (3/6)

[syddiallo]

people who live on the web don't have lives.

[invaderanthony1]

Can someone expain this to me? I saw the little sub-thingy that said "Where Wi-fi is available" and i wanna know if the google chrome notebook connection is only available where wi-fi is. Or is it available anywhere. As in ANYWHERE. Like in space or something? PLZ explain.

[TheAudioMatic]

0:10 The album cover Nevermind from Nirvana on the poster :p

[Xaahu]

so technically my hands will always be sticky if i have this right? O_o

[nrviognjiocfmbkirdom]

Tacophobie

[NamelessNLS]

The best in this video the 1990s part with the Nirvana-Nevermind Baby on the wall :D

[Austin101123]

My phone has 4G yet my Chromebook would only have 3G????

Make a new version :up

[HEN000y]

@Austin101123 Your phone does not have 4G, 4G isn't out yet, it has 3.75G. LTE is no 4G, LTE-A is 4G and LTE-A isn't out yet.

[Austin101123]

@HEN000y then why does it say 4G? and not 3.75G?

[HEN000y]

@Austin101123 Because that is what your carrier wants you to thing you are using. If your carier told you that they now had faster 3G you would ignore it, but if they tell you they have 4G it gets your attention.

[Austin101123]

@HEN000y Isn't lying in a commercial against the law though?

And honestly I wouldn't ignore it if they told me 3.75G instead of 3G... It just doesn't make sense to lie in the first place. :/

[safootubesyou]

so it should be free since its only the web

[kimngan311]

google does like tacos -_-

[Thehobomugger]

no matter where you are. your always pay high 3g prices on a chromebook

[HEN000y]

@Thehobomugger In the UK you can pay £10 a month for 10GB or £15 for Unlimited (Real Unlimited not AT&T unlimited)

[ballr4lyfe]

flying and using chromebooks at the same time makes me nauseas

[darksider300]

Wow he just insulted about a billion people with a life. I like the web but I don't have to have it on me every single second of my life! Plus if i were flying in the air i wouldne need a connection, i just fly everywhere!

[Randomguy578]

hmmmm if i can use a chromebook in a flight why is there airplane mode i have to turn on on my phone

[Randomguy578]

you have to pay 50 more now for 3g

[alphacats724]

0:31 fishing trip? not a good idea. it would die if u dropped it in the water.

[alphacats724]

0:14 ? a person that flys should actually fall right down with that odd OS crushed

[Macintosh3745]

Whaddyathink Windows 98 was meant for - better Internet.

[punkvijay224]

Web is shaping the way we live our lives, and ChromeBook will now shape the web the way we use it!

[DiazVista]

I love flying with my netbook. I hate surfing near a tacos truck.

[theCodeMonsters]

Okay... Dislike if you disagree... but this notebook thing is STUPID. So I'm gonna go spend 600 bucks on a computer that ONLY surfs the web when I can get one with a better processor and wifi and play games that require download like SC2?

[ashtreylil1]

how about 1g - 4g and optional satilite because before you know it 5g will be out....better processor, more ram, AND some type of bare bones "system" for simple things......maybe an instant synching SSD would be a good idea, somewhere around 150gb so if you are "not connected" you can still make some frequent web pages available offline as if they were last time you were connected along with your apps.

[nesselar]

They completely stole the crapping Taco from South Park. 

[mutchy126]

No Matter where you are? What about on the Moon?

[ThouArtNaught]

how can I sync my ipod with this?

[LyokoTravels]

so it's a Wifi Hotspot ?

[firered1080]

so it makes wi fi or u have to have it

[CoconutChannel]

Yeah, I always wanted to browse next to a Tacotruck :D

[clawcarboy18]

so, if both mobile phones and chromebooks are going to use 3G, which is overcrowded already. The entire 3G network is going to be sluggish as hell. So google's claim for being ultra-fast is to be considered invalid.

[TheRollingDices]

OH that sound of dial-up modem. How nostalgic.

[SomethingAWESOMEFTW]

Sounds like Google likes the whole "Stalk users through products" thin Apple is doing.

[PoopingInTheBathtub]

ALWAYS have wi-fi?!?!? I want one.:P

[davidbuddy9]

You sure that our O.S. was made before the web? Microsoft started making Vista in 2004 and ended in 2006 came on sale in 2007 so your wrong

[nrgshkl093]

i live in india and the internet sucks here;its slow,ISPs are greedy and poor bandwidth compared to most other countries.....and not to mention ridiculously expensive and stupid

[MsBmx25]

i want one

[MiguelAMX1]

It also has GPS and Bluetooth but yet enabled, I would know because i have one of these netbooks :)

[Zorica12]

You say '1990s' as if it was A LONG time ago. lol. Stop making me feel old. (Because I'm not). Haha!  But true that OS were made before proper internet.

[TheW4RP1G]

I think I'll wait for a Chrome netbook with 4G. Any notebook light enough to carry around comfortably is way too expensive, especially for something that basically just browses the web and writes emails.

[tapo]

I have one, 3G is fast enough (honestly, fast enough for youtube and web apps), you get 100 MB free a month through verizon and can also pay as you go without any contract (but there's a GSM radio and if you use developer mode you can use your AT&T account) there's 16 GB storage SSD, a USB port (of course) and a SD card slot.

[quachingducks]

god.. that Dial up sound wants to make me kill my computer. worse year ever.

[seth817]

How about a chrome desktop? I like using a desktop.

[yudanielk]

@Argentium009

As much as I'd like to agree, 4G hasn't become that prevalent yet, at least here in the US. Today's 4G networks are too limited in the customers that they serve and the technology is still too immature at this stage. Pretty much all carriers offer 3G so that's the only option for now. I'd give it a good 2-3 years before we actually start seeing 4G devices dominating the market space.

[HarmonicaPlayingTrek]

Man! I really want to surf the web RIGHT NEXT TO A TACO TRUCK.

[Nos0]

mmmm taco truck.

[fluffywoop]

To a taco truck xD

[Invisifly2]

amazing how much we've progressed in 20 years

[valygamer2009]

no wired conection noooooooooo!!!

[sideshow45]

@valygamer2009 3g anywhere yessssssssssssss!!!

[etoangfavoriteko]

Fair enough.

[Benzor1001]

Few

i always feel screwed cuz i wasn't connected to the web when i was buying a taco

[AppleMacgic911]

Why would you carry that piece of junk when you can just carry the iPad which does more than that?

[jaymichaels84]

Taco Truck...Racists! LOL

[jaymichaels84]

I like the Taco Stand :)

[Parkerm6]

Face-Book update: Updating my Face-Book to tell you that this guy is doing a Twitter update about a dude eating a taco near a taco truck

[P0IS0N]

is there any notebook today that doesn't allow you to connect to the web?

[Parkerm6]

Face-Book update: eating a taco near a taco truck

[inovatvstdios]

@Parkerm6 Face-Book update: updating facebook

[Parkerm6]

@inovatvstdios, Face-Book update, updating Face-book by updating that I am eating a taco while updating Face-Book.

[inovatvstdios]

@Parkerm6 twitter update: this guy is updating his facebook while eating a taco near a taco truck, i wonder what he is putting as his status.

[xMysteryxMewx]

The rest of the video is good though =)

[xMysteryxMewx]

I might be missing something but from what I heard its dangerously illegal to use Wi-Fi or any kind of wireless thing on a flight

If I'm missing something please tell me

[jmichels9]

This would be absolutely great for me!! I mean i'm on the internet all the time! so i can't wait... hope i get one!!! and it does come with 3g as well for 2 years via 100mb/month from verizon if i'm correct?

[steves1324]

This is great, but they better make sure offline caching is available for most productivity apps. I don't want to be in a meeting and need to give a presentation but the wifi is private (secured) and I'm too deep in the building to get access to the 3G network (shielding). Could be a bad situation to be in if you have only a Chrome notebook (with no offline caching).

[AldonioMX]

@steves1324 Have you used offline gmail? it will be the same

[xdonline69]

Nirvana Nevermind poster 0:09

[mhaidarhanif]

I can't connect to the web in the bathroom, too bad.

[Argentium009]

I'd be slightly more impressed if it offered 4G, as 3G is just way too slow for most web apps. But I can see this thing catching on, since this is a new way of approaching a notebook, time will tell and it can only improve over time. There's no mention of storage however, is this a media consumption only device? With no drive, I'm hoping there's at least an SD slot and built in hard drive of SOME decent size.

[Deltawk]

@Argentium009 There is an SD slot and a built-in hard drive. You can download things onto your hard-drive so you can re-upload them later, but you can't directly access most things you put on your hard-drive.

[Argentium009]

@Deltawk I see, thanks for the info, could be worthwhile then.

[foxh8er]

@Argentium009 There's an SD card slot (though its not really accessible easily on most web apps) and it has 16 gigs of SSD used for some local downloads.

Believe me, I have one, but I still love it!

[Argentium009]

@foxh8er I was hoping to get one of the freebies when they had that promotion going but I suppose that's over now. I may get one sometime next year. I just wish it was 4G, the speed would be very much a selling point.

[foxh8er]

@Argentium009 Yes, agreed. But you can't argue with semi-free, can't ya? LOL.

[Argentium009]

@foxh8er Define semi-free? :) Free I understand, semi-free is pretty ambiguous. :)

[foxh8er]

@Argentium009 Semi free is probably not the best way to say it..but I'm saying that while limited, 100 megs of 3G is still free.

[Argentium009]

@foxh8er 100 megs? Per what? I thought it was more than that. I can kill my 200gb a month cap pretty easily around here. :)

[foxh8er]

@Argentium009 Per month, free (paid for by Google, but requires your credit card) And BTW, you can't exactly torrent or heavy download on the CR48. ;)

[Argentium009]

@foxh8er Hehehe, no, I imagine not but mostly my usage is in the form of watching high definition streaming films through Netflix and other legal sources. :) Plus my phone service is through Vonage and I spend a lot of time in video chat or well, here. :) All that heavy bandwidth stuff.

[sideshow45]

@Argentium009 16 gb flash storage.

[ambidextrality]

@Argentium009 All your data is in the clouds, and government databases.

[MiguelAMX1]

@Argentium009 Chrome os is meant to live on the web, this is radically different than windows or mac. Some storage will be offered, I can see why because i use photoshop and I need to save pictures on my hard drive. The netbooks have 16gb ssd. Their will never be a hard drive because its pointless since this is meant to be the web. I use youtube for videos, i use Qriocity Music unlimited for streaming music.

[ShanSinghTV]

@Argentium009 Well technically HSPA+ is just the HSDPA network that's been deployed by T-Mobile and AT&T a few years ago. LTE from MetroPCS and Verizon aren't 4G. WiMax is really supposed to be an alternative to WiFi, and from that point, it is kinda like 4G but it really isn't. In the rest of the world, HSDPA, LTE, and WiMax are all considered 3.5G

Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble.

[superseung]

@Argentium009 The Cr-48 came with 16 GB hard drive and SD card slot. I imagine future Chrome notebooks will also.

[Papasmurf7111]

@Argentium009 there's usb slots where u can put a thumbdrive

[OfficialUltrastyler]

@Argentium009 As it's done completely through the web i don't think they'd have any storage space. Annoyingly they will CONTROL everything you do on your pc. Downloading torrents and other things may become impossible with this device. Long live pc :)

[Heaney5551]

@Argentium009

3.5G is fine...

4G is overkill- and it's only in like a few places anyways.

Networks should get 3.5G everywhere instead of having 4G in SOME places...

[GeorgeChar95]

@Argentium009 don't worry it comes with 16 GB SSD Thing is, i can pay 400 more dollars a get a Macbook Air for $1199.With 128 GB SSD instead of 16, 4GB Ram, 1.6 Ghz i5 Dual Core instead of a Intel Atom (one Core) and Intel HD Graphics 3000 which are a lot faster and Mac OS X Lion loaded! Way better

[MrRemoted]

@GeorgeChar95 But it is a Mac, you said it yourself...

[Harukoozt]

@Argentium009 16 GB flash storage, Google Music to put music onto, and Youtube for video.

[BoogsterSU2]

Everyone, when they said "3G built-in on the Chrome notebook", they mentioned Verizon's 3G. Sorry, competitors...

[aranhoso]

ok... how much it will cost? It's a tiny 7" screen or a 15"? because it have less things, maybe it will cost less, right?

[BoogsterSU2]

@aranhoso It's a 12.1" screen.

[samikhanfor]

wow Great *.*

i wish i have one ...

[jacobbubble2]

I dont want to pay for 3g on top of my phone. why cant i just use the internet from my android phone instead of having to pay another monthly fee?

[Argentium009]

@jacobbubble2 It comes with 24 months of free service. I don't know how much it costs beyond that but by then I imagine most people would be ready to upgrade to the next machine.

[gasparmasterxmx]

lol 60% of mexico dont have internet cover for 3G

[radums]

and if i don´t have internet cover like a no 3 G zone or an wi-fi pay zone ?