Google Chrome Laptop: On The Web In Less Than 50 seconds! (video)

December 16, 2010

It took less than 50 seconds, from the time I hit the on/off button on Google’s CR-48 laptop to the display of the first Web page. And probably, the longest time was me entering my super secret unhackable password :-)

Very impressive. Faster than Windows 7 and perhaps even MacOS X, on a good day!

Too bad that the external ports (USB, Ethernet, VGA) on the Chrome notebook are not working – it’s still a prototype – as of today. Also, there’s no optical drive (who needs one now with the Web anyway!) and no keyboard backlighting. Otherwise, it’ll look like a black MacBook!

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Apple Prevents New MacBook Users From Playing Movies On Old TVs, Projectors

November 20, 2008
Apple Macbook's mini Displayport blocks protected video content to be viewed on old TVs

Apple Macbook's mini Displayport blocks protected video content to be viewed on old TVs

That really sucks if you use a projector to watch protected iTunes video content stored on your new Macbook.

On its latest laptops, Apple used a modern video connector called Mini DisplayPort that checks if the attached displays can keep the video content protected and secure to prevent piracy/illegal copying. Of course, that’s the case for the latest digital flat screen TVs. But not for older TV sets, VGA monitors or projectors (rear or front).

This could become an even bigger problem when the next generations of Mac mini – probably to be launched early next year during the MacWorld conference – will also include the same DisplayPort connector. More so than Macbooks, Mac minis are used as set-top-box connected directly to a TV/projector.

In that case, you’d also have to upgrade your TV. That can’t be bad for the economy, right?!

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