It's really a nice little notebook. When it's side by side with my work laptop I keep thinking "man this screen isn't good," but when I'm just using it I think, "wow, this screen is pretty good!" It's weird.
Battery life is great, thinness and lightness are fantastic. Have yet to try the 3G but that's more of an pseudo-emergency thing (emergency meaning I'm out someplace and bored.)
Kinda wish the screen was a little bigger. I think 13" would be perfect, 11.6" is just a bit too small. The trackpad is really good but takes a little getting used to, also had to set it to maximum cursor speed for it to be tolerable. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's a way to increase the speed on plugged in mice? Which is lame. Also, even though this is the only sold Chromebook with Bluetooth, I was still surprised it doesn't support audio devices. So I can't use my wireless headphones, which sucks.
The speed is pretty good, but there are some times it hitches. I love how it's fanless, stays completely dead silent throughout use no matter how much you push it. Doesn't get that warm either, at least compared to my lap burning work laptop or my cheek-scalding Galaxy Nexus. Good battery in a device that runs cool, it's a nice change of pace from some other modern gadgets.
Tried using the HDMI out to stream some Crunchyroll but the video kept hitching even when set to 480p, I don't know if the system can exactly handle outputing 1080p. You also can't close the thing when it's outputing, and the screen stays on but is just black with the cursor, which can be a little distracting.
Basically the hardware is nice but not exactly furtureproof. The OS is pretty nice, very distraction free. The notification area for desktop notifications is a very nice step up from Chrome on normal OS's that I didn't foresee, it's truly useful and really only possible on Chrome OS. Hopefully we see more of that in the future, as Manifest v2 apps take shape.
Lol I don't really know why I wrote this here or who I wrote it for.
