Chromi-mia! The Book Has Arrived! (Early!)

Yes everyone, my "all-new" Chromebook, has come home, ahead of schedule!
It was suppose to come on the 10th/11th of December of 2014, but arrived on the 5th instead, at around 4:30 PM Mountain time. I'm not opening the box til next week, as I do not wish to ruin the suspense so soon!

Ah now, ya wondering which Chromebook we talking about here? That'd be, This One! In other words, the:

For now, until I "reveal" what that "Portal Post" up there has behind its mirror, if you have any Chrome Browser/Chrome OS/Chromevox questions, comments, or complaints about me even    recieving a Chrome device for my birthday/Christmas, sound off here!

Attention

Please keep your Chrome talk within this thread, so I don't have to run around tracking similar topics on here, especially once I reveal what is behind that mirror!

And with that, Chrome away everyone!

Hi.

I don't know much about these kind of laptops, apart from as far as I know, they're tiny, oh wait no, that's netbooks... Note to all who wish not to cramp there hands, do not buy a netbook.

I've tried cromevox on pc and honestly don't like it that much but if you can use it and like it, that's cool.

I have a question, why buy a crome book when you could buy a high end or normal specked laptop?

I'd love if you would do an unboxing, I forget if your blind but either way, it would be really nice to have it from the point of view of someone that understands at least what blind people may want to know about it, I mean, regular unboxing videos are okay but they don't explain how it looks in a way that's very easy to understand, not most of the time, plus, unboxing videos are incredibly useful for showing to other interested people, even a recording with out video would be fine, and it doesn't have to be on anything more special than a phone, for instance.

It's okay if you don't for what ever reason, I'll still obviously be interested in the stuff you post but it'd be nice to have first impressions in audio and a longer write up in text, you know?  Lots of article writers do that kind of thing and it works well, at least I think...

Also yeah I sorta thought that may be why you got the Acer, because of the cyber Monday sail, and Brad, I don't much like netbooks either, at least the keyboards, and sometimes lack of periferals and often ethernet as well, though apple has standard sized keyboards even on the 11 inch, and some models from other brands manage it really well so it doesn't feel weird, but I like most other things about them which is why it's so sad that they died completely so fast, then came back with the mac book air and of course then everyone had to compete with them, then the mildly silly ultrabooks took over and you barely get any netbooks any more, least of all good ones with an SSD, or at least a bit more ram and a processor that's made for running anything but pong.

Also, I watched that unboxing and, I'm pleasantly surprised about the 802.11AC, though I doubt it's dual band, and the USB 3.0 port, but I've got to say, I doubt that SSD is any faster than just good enough to be instantly snappy for almost all small tasks, so transfer speeds won't be quite so excellent as you may think with USB 3, though still probably quite fast, then again, the bigger stuff would be on the cloud, too...  So that means downloading, then transfering, also this thing doesn't come with ethernet I think, kind of disappointing, like I get it, it's a big old port in the way and it doesn't look that fancy, but they already have room for an extra USB 2.0, and I'm tired of manufacturers presuming that there will always be a working wireless signal with the right strength that you have secure access too at any location that you may use your computer at any given time.  No disk drive sure that makes perfect sense for this kind of computer, but not no ethernet, it's not just for stable connections on servers...  Also the SD thing? well I guess that's just 2 different ways of thinking, Acer thinks, why make more room inside, put the thing in, transfer, pop it back out but others are saying, put the sd in, leave it in, save things to it and only take it out sometimes, so have it flush, like my camera, also google probably considered the large copacity SD's and said, hell no! to people using that for deticated storage aposed to google drive...
I hate Celeron, first because it sounds like celifain, second because everyone knows it's simply the most obvious version of, slap the bare minimum newer components onto a shitty old processor that sucked even in it's own day to half assedly update it, give it a new model designation that's got a high letter and number combination compared to other products in the line to impress people, and call it new, but at least it does have a higher clock rate than I would have expected especially for the price, then again, that could be overcompinsation, and pentium and celeron do heat up fast, especially with no fan and that heat conducting plastic, unless, that's something else they did, rap it in some 3 cent thermal paste?
Hey what ever works I guess, I just hope it's not junk in a year, but what ever they did with these, it was a smart way to get rid of useless old CPUs.

Either way that's a hole lot for 150 or even 200 dollars, especially considering all the applications google has to offer, accessible or no, the HDMI 1.4 port and faster WiFi and transfering, long battery life, portability, and snappy response.

I'm thinking of a ChromeBox, actually. No point in over-investing.

Chrome Security Tips

For those of ya on Windows, and wish to have a "more sicure Chrome experience out of the box, ya may wish to look at Comodo Dragon. Warning: Do to how Dragon protects you within the browser, Chromevox ain't gonna work well... You can navigate through Dragon's menus, and interact with the Omnibox/location bar, but that's about it. Any specific browser interaction is intercepted. Dragon works fine with NVDA however. The above was teested of course, while I ws living in the "Windows" world.

For Chromies on any Chrome supported platform, who are "extremely" paranoid with their browsing, or who want a nice pack of extensions to check out, have a look at the [url=http://lifehacker.com/lifehacker-pack-for-chrome-our-list-of-essential-chrom-880863393]Security
Lifehacker Pack for Chrome: Our List of the Essential Extensions.[/url] In that list, there's a section on "Security," where the famous "Adblock Plus" is among that list. However, most Chromies are now instead using the Adblock extension from getadblock.com/ , as "Adblock Plus" wishes to keep some ads unblocked by default do to "sponsorship."

As a bonus, don't wish to deal with Flash content anymore, have a look at the FlashControl extension.

Greetings,

You're very welcome. Shall answer your questions in ascending order:

1. You can read the latest release notes  on Chromevox here , though new features may have been added since those notes were last updated. I'll be able to give ya a more detailed answer once I begin my Chromebook journey sometime this week.
2. As of this writing, US and UK Google TTS voices are the only ones I know which actually speak. Again, will test to be sure once I begin my journey.
3. The Chrome  team is more receptive to feedback and helpful than the Android team, thus more actually gets done. At least, that's my experience when comparing  discussions from there respective Google Groups.
4. There are 3 keyboards you can choose from at this time:

A. Classic
B. Flat
C. Experimental

Though you can switch to the "Flat" layout, (which "somewhat" emulates how "most" screen readers work with navigating), the "Chromevox Tutorial" uses the "Classic" layout, and has the "least" amount of keystroke conflicts.
5. Stability with Chromevox on Chrome OS, again I'l test once I begin my journey. At least when I used Windows with it back in the day via its Chrome Extension, if you didn't have enough ram, or if ya had CV plus another screen reader running, it most likely would have either frozen for a moment then pick back up after 10 seconds or so, or your PC would have became slow enough, that you'd have to shut down the browser, then reopen it. Having too many tabs opened, and how much ram you have, (especially for non Chrome OS devices,) is a major factor in how responsive CV is, as a whole.

Hopefully the answers helped, will get back to ya in here once I can answer those questions I could not at this time.

I thank you for your interest in Chrome OS!

hi Trenton.
man I'm fascinated with the chrome OS system.
just now I finish  seeing all the podcasts from the sources of topic and I loved it!
man the accessibility team of the chrome vox working very seriously and very competent at what they do ...
4 things that I not know:
1. VOX chrome supports touch screen?

2. chrome book has touch screen monitor?
3. if there is no voice engine into my language, can I install other voices in the system?
4. There is some more another chrome book hardware model with greater capacity?

for example:
4GB of RAM and 128gb SSD FLASH.
now time to go read the chrome vox guide and understand what has changed in four years.
Trenton thanks for having given me to know this system and its native accessibility in the system out of the box.
thanks.
cheers.

Hi,

For Question 3 dealing with voices, unless your language is apart of the Google TTS family, or there is a voice for your specific language within the Chrome Web Store that can be installed on to a Chrome OS device, I'm afraid you "can not" do so.
For Question 2, I won't even "assume" that you can use Chromevox on a "touch screen" Chrome device, as my Acer Chromebook 11, is not a touch screen model. Though I will test Chromevox with the "Touch Pad" and wil get back with ya unless someone else chimes in first.
For questions 1 and 4, best place to go to find your answer, is via the Chromebook - Devices on Google Play site. Link above may take ya to the "USA" Google Play Store, unless it "redirects" you to the correct version for your country. If not, please let me know, and I'll try to find your country's Play Store.

Hi there,

The direct email address for the group, is:
[email protected]

You're very welcome.

The address I shared above, can also be used for subscribing. That, is when you should  recieve a "Welcome" mesage, if one was made. I do not use Google Groups via email, but via its web interface. Your message should automagically go through, if successful. If not, your first message may have to be approved by a moderator, which happens to "all" people.

You're very welcome, all of ya!

Hi
Trenton. This is the model that I want to buy.
what do you think of this model?
take advice.
can you tell me if the chrome books is only 2GB ram and 16GB SSD?
everyone I saw only has these descriptions.
I  wanted to buy a more powerful...
4GB ram, and 64GB SSD.

Toshiba sb
• 13.3 "screen (maximum resolution 1366×768)
• CPU: Intel Celeron 2955u @ 1.4GHz
if graphics card: Intel HD
• ram: 2 GB SSD drive
• 16 GB
• 2 x USB 3.0
• card reader SD
• HDMI out
Toshiba _ 07

and, according to Toshiba, the battery has a battery for 9 hours.

thanks.