Chromebook 1

This shall be a series of posts for the Chromebook which I have in my hands now to try out. I am thinking it will be disorganised as I will try it out and whatever features that I try will be given a very thorough examination and critique. But I will try my best to organise this.

First off, the looks and feels.

My Chromebook comes in a nice orangy-pinkish colour. I got the only one with a colour as I came first! It is kind of light, but not premium ultrabook light. Definitely lighter than our standard issue Lenovo Thinkpads. But of course the Thinkpads were built to survive clumsy people and earthquakes, thus explaining the weight. The layout is really simple - just a keyboard and a track pad. No extra shortcut buttons for the volume or what not as it's all part of the keyboard. And yes, even the power button. It has 3 USB ports, a HDMI out, and an SD card reader. We will not be able to bring this to the classroom as it does not have a VGA output for projectors.
(I will update about the specs for this later, as I have yet to find out.)

Secondly, setting it up.

Once you switch it on, it boots up real fast. Just a few seconds and it is ready. What you will need to do is to log in with your Google account. Now we can log in too with our MOE accounts but with the security settings, I could not access the Google Drive, so I have decided to go ahead and use my personal account instead. Just click add account at the bottom left, and log in and you are done!

Secondly (part 2), continuing the set up...

The mouse. I like things fast, so I set my track pad and mouse to move fast. But there's no control panel! Where do I go for this? Basically, think of your Chromebook as your normal laptop, without any, and I mean ANYTHING else, except for your Google Chrome web browser. That really, basically is what a Chromebook is! So when I say go to settings to tweak your mouse settings, I mean go to the Chrome settings! Or you can click on the bottom right where the time and WiFi sign is, and it would pop up a small menu where it would show settings, which would direct you to the Chrome settings after you click on it. There, you can change your mouse settings. And I must say, I am not please with it so far as it is still rather slow.

I am not sure what else people would do to set up their brand new computers, but for me, this is one of the basic ones. And since there is not anything else in this Chromebook, my set up was basically it! If there's anything else you would like to know, please leave a comment! Or wait for my posts further on!