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2012/07/05: 17142: Google ChromeBox


Welcome to OttoBlog#17142.

Last month I bought the new Samsung ChromeBox (a NetTop version of the Google ChromeBook).

I took it out of the box, hooked up a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and turned it on. It didn't find a wired network (oops, I forgot to plug in the ethernet cable!) so it asked if I wanted to connect to my WiFi (which it found).
It has a built-in speaker, but I prefer to have it hooked up to amplified speakers.
I think it's only locked up twice. On the bright side: each time, it's only taken 8 seconds to reboot and everything was back with nothing lost when it came back.
I ordered a pair of 28" monitors that will be here tomorrow.
I think there's only two things that I can't do on it (and therefore still keep my Linux box around for): I was surprised by how many things worked on the ChromeBox:


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