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iOS: Very limited media capability, AAC/MP3 for audio (has Apple Lossless and WAV also), for video it's primarily MPEG4 content (h.264, etc) in mp4 containers (or m4v), that's about it Archos: plays pretty much anything you can throw at it, requires a plugin to handle MPEG2/AC3 5.1 soundtracks...

Still using Firefox 3.6.13, will continue to do so for a long time to come. I grab the Chrome nightly builds once a week to see how things are progressing, but... it's not really that much faster in my day-to-day experience, most web pages load equally in Firefox or Chrome (I honestly don't...

So, I'll take that as a "no," right?

I love how people are basically spending all their time with their new toys (and no I didn't get one, probably won't) focusing more on either a) trying to use it with Windows/Linux with some kind of network connection or b) focusing more on trying to not use the ChromeOS it comes with and...

So now people really can get their 15 minutes of fame, eh...

But the question is: what do you lose in the process since the instructions say it wipes the storage clean, or is that not quite true? Guess I should just wait till I get one, if that happens. Kinda sucks being left out yet again but, maybe someday I'll get chosen for such programs when I apply.

DOH!!! Never mind, a few more moments searching turned up this: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/cr-48-chrome-notebook-developer-information straight from Google itself. :)

Awesome... that's about what I'd expected. I keep seeing mention of the "root" thing but nobody has posted clear-cut info (just in case UPS comes knocking on my door today, unlikely but I still hope), can you provide the basic instructions? Kept seeing people say there's a switch in the...

Yah, I had just realized that as noted above. But thanks for running it, at least we have some idea how the Cr-48 performs I suppose.

DOH!!! Just confirmed that by firing up IE9 beta and yep, it installs an ActiveX thingamabob to do the scan... CRAP

There's a chance it might not actually display any system info, unfortunately. It could be tied to the browser - Chrome - as I'm thinking they use some ActiveX gadget for that... dammit. :p

When you take the video for what it actually is - a demonstration of the benefits potential from cloud computing - it's pretty clear that they went to extremes in a pretty amusing way to show that even if your laptop just gets hosed physically in ways that many wouldn't ever dream of, the data...

Can you please go to: http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action and run the Peacekeeper browser benchmark on that thing, please? :) Been trying to get anyone to do it so far and of the dozens of folks that I've spoken with that got the laptop, nobody will do it. Takes a few...

They don't send emails, you either get the laptop or you don't. :( I'm guessing more will be delivered today and that's about it.

100MB a month of free 3G Internet service is worth $50 a month? What is that guy smoking?

Mentioned this in another thread but I swear to god this is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen in my entire life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo Google shows off what cloud computing benefits can do for you by obliterating a few Cr-48 laptops in fairly creative...

You guys gotta watch this video by Google about the Cr-48 demoing the benefits of cloud computing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo /me hits the floor laughing so hard it seriously hurts... Kudos, Google, you made my day. Now if I only had a Cr-48 of my own... *sigh* :(

It's 1-freakin-percent, aka irrelevant in the big scheme of things. :) Surely you can find something better to do than obsessing over such trivial concerns? Some files simply cannot be defragmented when the OS is actually in operation; a manual defrag (done from the command line) can handle...

If I had to say, I'd say the EVOs might have a hardware issue - I would not even think about laying the blame on Android, ever, that's insane to some degree. Unless someone could provide proof that Android on that device is sucking down the juice by some errant code or whatever, I would...

It has a Lithium Polymer battery in it - "battery memory" problems haven't been a problem for nearly 10 years now. That was a Ni-Cad and other battery type issue long since resolved. You can plug it in anytime you want, and no it probably won't have a full charge on it but it'll be charged to...

Damn, man you folks just have no luck with that phone at all I guess. Want my address? :D :p Well, you made your point, looks like you'll dump it for an iPhone if that's what works for you. If you are truly TRULY serious about usage and battery life and that phone is your lifeline since you...

Anytime you're in a vehicle - as you stated, you use "Google maps navigation trip to a job site for 30-45min" - are you plugging in and charging when you're on the road? I'm just curious...

Archos 101, of course. ;)

So they're claiming it'll ship with Android 2.3 on it? Ok, that's interesting: Very interesting indeed...

If anyone happens to get lucky enough to get one of these, do please run the Peacekeeper benchmark which should provide at least some technical information about the hardware in the laptop (hopefully) and run the Sunspider one as well 'cause I'd love to see how Chrome performs on ChromeOS. ;)

Yah, I know, but there are already 3 or 4 videos on YouTube from other people that just got them this morning, and when asked about when they signed up, two of them said last week because of some Facebook special or tie-in that I had no clue about, so I really don't know. They could be flat out...

Geezus, that was fast. I'm doubting they sent out any kinds of email notices ahead of time like "Hey, lucky you, keep your eyes on your email or shipping soon for an early Christmas present!" Oh well, maybe someday I'll get into one of these limited programs. Whenever I see them I'm either too...

Two suggestions: a) external battery back of some kind, they're out there, you just have to find one. I know of some folks that have EVOs and I swear, the only time I have ever seen them put the god damned things down is when they're taking a piss I think, and if they could still hold it...

I would have to say when the Archos 70 hard drive model is released, it's not going to be the same form factor - that is most likely the reason for the delay at this point: they're having to create an entirely new design for the casing to fit the hard drive inside. There IS a possibility that...

So, what's your point? :D Stated battery life in the specs is far different from real-world usage: is your EVO actually getting only 4 hours of use, more or less? Have you tried rooting it to be able to install a low-power consumption kernel? I could go on with the things you can do to...

I very rarely use it so no, I suppose I wouldn't miss it. What I do miss and will continue to miss is decent actually comprehensible communications and discussions with people in light of the world's continuing decline into l33t 5p34k or the ridiculous text-ebonics and acronym hell we find...

Pretty cool thing to do for people, even with Winter coming on. Early Christmas presents GO! :D

Well hell, now things really get interesting. I knew about it still being there in the 2.1 factory install on the 70 and 101, but I hadn't seen anyone mention they were using 2.2 now and still had the capability. Who knows, maybe it slipped through the cracks. Weird.

OH OH OH... I'll bet you're still running Android 2.1 on that, aren't you? :D That's what the it is: the AC3/MPEG2 plugin was left in 2.1 - it gets pulled back out in the 2.2 update... damn, I can't believe I didn't remember that till I just saw your post. 99% sure that's why you're having...

I take it that's an RDP session of some kind, yes? :D Very cool. I've been sitting here with a cutout I made that's a 7" diagonal based on the actual screen size (in real-world terms meaning inches) as well as a 10" diagonal and I swear, the 7" seems awfully damned small at times. ;) Given...

Yanno, for 25 years I've been the proud owner of several pairs of PortaPros by Koss, and I argue to this day that despite what they look like, all anyone really has to do it put 'em on and press Play and all that "oh, what horrid looking headphones" and other comments become meaningless almost...

None, from what I gather with chatting with a few people working at Google on the Pilot project. It's possible that people might get it installed but, from what I was told, the laptop will not boot from the single USB port so there goes installing off a USB stick or external optical drive. At...

Archos will never ever go that far, it would basically require them to work that cellular circuitry into these devices and they're simply not going to make that type of investment. If for some strange unbelievable reason they did such a thing for the 101 it would skyrocket in price to $400+...

Just for the record: playing video on the Archos devices is not the problem - technically the "problem" is the audio codecs since AC3 which tends to be buried inside most MKV rips (HD stuff from Blu-ray/HDTV) requires a plugin from Archos that cannot be distributed with the devices directly per...

Go for the i7 and be done with it, it's a viable piece of hardware that's rock solid and stable right now. Give Sandy Bridge time to mature, get at least a full generation of mobos out in the first half of 2011. If your needs require more power than what the i7 actually can produce with a nice...