[Official] CR-48 ChromeOS Laptop Shipment-Tracking

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Does the tracker show what ups center they are sending it to, or the actual area the person lives in?

the closet UPS center is about 50 miles away (wichita) and they have several of them that got shipped yesterday.

Only shows the city & zip code.

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Hm. According to the tracker one Cr-48 is on its way to the ZIP where the person in whose name I applied for lives, with an ETA of tomorrow.

The town only has 9,000 inhabitants, so here's hoping...

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There are a LOT of people out there (probably many more than you imagine) who still won't buy a PC because they are "too complicated", yet want something simple to use for internet access.

Convergence, until now, worked one way. Only.

Once an existing device proves to be a viable solution for one more problem, other dedicated devices rapidly falls out of use.

With PCs becoming quickly cheaper, simpler and more reliable, more and more people are exiting the mental trap "PC is too much (complicated, difficult, costly...) for me), so I see a really tiny window to sell even simpler devices that are still smart enough to do something useful.

Please let me stress the most important fact: we are talking of devices to be used to access internet services, somewhat that has an inherent difficuly baseline to be used, and require inherently more than a bit of consciousness and awareness.

Web will never be like a passive media like television, we can try to get access simpler and simpler eliminating the need of clicking on browser's icon on a reliable system that the user will likely be barely aware it exists.

People using the web will still need: understand how to chose and manage passwords for services, avoid scam sites, avoid fake sellers on ebay, don't insult his boss or publish nasty pictures of the ex-wife on FaceBook, don't give access to your bank account to Mwugabe ambassador of Costablanca for transferring 40M dollars, don't give mail address to spammers, don't insult a serial killer and then give home address, learn how to use e-governament websites, learn how to use e-mail, don't be too fast in deleting your dearest data and confirm, etc...

Cloud approch will probably be successful in "abstracting" users from the minor complexity of the underlying system (day by day becoming cheaper, faster, stronger...) but does not even touch the real major problem: the inherent complexity and need of awareness for using online services.

How can it count on simplification as competitive advantage if it eliminate only the minor annoyances of an inherently complex service?

And anyway, hardware fault (that is always an option, expecially on portable devices), sites crackdowns (...), network failures etc will still be another layer of complexity the cloud cannot "abstract" the users from.

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Southern Patriot

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The tracker just updated ... one going to my city, PLEASE ME BE!!!!!!!!!

Same here!!! One finally coming to my ZIP code (only the second one yet for my city), so I'm REALLY hoping that it will show up at my door!!

Its odd seeing some show up as overnight deliveries and some as ground shpping.

Google switched to ground shipping after the first 2 or 3 batches. Nothing odd about it at all.

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xendrome

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When did the tracker stop showing the zip codes it shows that there are 2 packages shipped yesterday to my city but no zip codes.

How big is your city? It probably has more then one zip code. So if your zip code is coming up, it is going to the city, but a different area of the city.

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SaltLife

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Well two went to my city but both are not for me. Hopefully I'm still in consideration so I will keep watching the website for new updates....

Man I really thought that last one was coming to my house.

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Bookworm

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How big is your city? It probably has more then one zip code. So if your zip code is coming up, it is going to the city, but a different area of the city.

no i was searching by city not zip and its showing two packages to my city but not the zip code that they are going to

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Grinch

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There is another one set for my zip code. I truly hope it is for me.

Best of luck to everyone else who wants one as well. Nothing says 'Merry Christmas' like a free laptop!

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Electric Jolt

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Sigh... Doesn't look like they are shipping out 60,000 Chrome notebooks... According to http://www.fastcompany.com/1709864/how-to-get-your-limited-edition-google-chrome-cr-48-notebook looks like only thousands are going out but not tens of thousands... They also said not to get your hopes up... Well I didn't think I would get one, but it's that hype they built up, and it irritates me they did that. I'm not buying a Chrome notebook later next year, I'd rather get something else. But if one is handed out to me to test, then hell yeah I'd use it and mess around with it. Nothing has come to my zip code, and some don't even have zip codes, they just say they are going to Pittsburgh... By now I'm sure there are tons of applications so I can't put another in, because so many others are probably better applications. :(

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