Six months later, no one has found the Easter Egg on the Google CR48
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Perhaps at least part of the reason that nobody has found the easter egg in the cr48 was that the way they were distributed was far too random to get them into the hands of people who really wanted to use and/or hack on them as ChromeOS devices.
I wanted to share a story about it being used as intended.
The latest revisions to ChromeOS have been quite nice and I find it to be very usable. It is not for everyone but I like it.
I wanted one because I have a business client who fits their target demographic quite well, but needs something shoved under their nose before they'll really consider it.
But, I don't have much of a public, google-able reputation. I figured that was why there was no "shiny" for me.
P.S. I also figured they wanted more of a technical shakedown than business, at that point. But, I'm pretty good at that.
The best easter egg I've seen was on the Power Macs circa System 7.5 (if only I'd bought shares of AAPL instead of that Power Mac...) where you could type "secret about box", drag and drop it to the desktop, and get a full-screen animation (very impressive for the time) of an animated flag flying in front of One Infinite Loop. The mouse controlled the direction of the wind. The flag showed (for reasons which were no doubt hilarious to the folks who coded it in) an iguana with a power plug for its tail, and a banner below "Iguana Iguana Powersurgius".
Anybody else gotten some of the late-to-arrive CR48s?
I don't think it is, but it's an interesting find.
I have a Cr-48 running in developer right now.