Engadget has a more competent photographer: http://www.engadget.com/photos/google-cr-48-chrome-laptop-pr...

I think the hardware looks absolutely beautiful. I have never seen a Netbook I would consider to be adequate, optically speaking, but this one definitely looks like it absolutely is.

According to the original announcement video stream, the CR-48 hardware is not the actual hardware. It's a test platform for beta testing the software.