@enentrup: See the discussion that follows my question. It's called SkyWriter now, but it's not much of an IDE as it is a code-friendly textarea.

@headclone: No warning at all! It was just waiting on my porch when I got home from work. In a way, I like that. Instead of endlessly refreshing a UPS tracking number for days, I instead received a welcome surprise to turn around my initially wretched day. Hours later I'm still giddy over it. I hope Google can ship…

@headclone: Nope...no IE on my ChromeBook. Haha

@headclone: Re: Kodingen. That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Brilliant! Thanks!

@MPmcfarlane: Re: Chrome Editor. I did see that when I was browsing the first time. It looks promising! I haven't dropped the $6 to try it yet but it seems to be missing some major details like syntax formatting/highlighting, autocomplete, and documentation hints.

@teacherhax: I can't really figure how I would use SkyWriter to edit live webpages. It looks to me that it can only replace <textarea&rt; fields with a codefriendly editor - but there's no "IDE" functionality, that being things like file management, ftp synchronization, etc. Looks like a good base to make an IDE out…

Has anybody found a good web development IDE (PHP/HTML/CSS at the least) for Chrome Apps yet? I want see how possible it is to actually develop websites from the ChromeBook, that it is my line of work after all.

@brillow: if Google does end up selling the CR-48, I'm guessing it'll be between $200-$300. Seems like standard Atom netbook performance so far. (I'm tempted to crack it open and upgrade the ram, but...)

@lewisboy: Looks like it is legit. The ChromeBook that arrived for me today was listed in that lookup. Cool.

@swamp0808: Chrome 8 has a built-in PDF reader, and it appears so does ChromeOS. I just tried opening a 49mb PDF (sheet music book that hadn't been properly compressed) and the CR-48 had no problem. If you have a file bigger than that to test I will be glad to try it!

@Brookespeed: A chance indeed! Good luck!!!

@brittohalloran: As far as I can tell, it is 100% mine, I'm digging through the TOS right now but it's just Google's standard stuff.

So without any warning, a CR-48 was waiting on my porch when I came home for lunch a few minutes ago. Guess I won't need to dual boot!

I'm teetering on a decision to dual-boot Chromium OS on my netbook right now. I'd lose features like the touch screen which are really great for flipping through sheet music at my piano, and I'm not certain how "insta-boot" would work if I was indeed dualbooting. I really want to try it though. I'd like to see how…

@RETT syndrome Dad: I kind of agree with him. I understand the appeal, but flash games with the exact same gameplay as angry birds (the most recent example I can think of, Crush The Castle) existed years before it came to the iPhone. Why it became a hugely big deal once the game was pocketable astounds me.

The day Macs become a walled garden environment would be the day the platform becomes entirely irrelevant. Using MacOS these days offers no competitive advantage other than personal preference, and Apple knows that. They censor their desktop platform and they'll have alienated the remaining customer base. It won't…

@KingArthur: but that's not in the song...!

@The Squalor and the Fury: Isn't one of the Spoon guys a Computer Science major? I remember one of them came from some kind of engineering background. Hiding references to obscure math shortcuts does not seem beyond them.

@The Squalor and the Fury: I'm gonna see your stakes.

@Annual: Most people aren't, it's hard to keep up with this stuff. I stopped trying, myself, but the most recent Android hardware-related news I remember reading was reviews about G2 performance.