Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps

I was surprised to find out this morning that I received a CR-48.<p>My wife called me midmorning to let me know that UPS had left a page for me from a name neither of us had heard before. A few minutes later, I saw a link to this Techcrunch article on Twitter, so I suspected that maybe that was what was waiting for me at home.<p>Sure enough, when I went home for lunch, I opened the box and found the notebook.<p>I had no prior indication that I had been selected for the pilot program, and I believe I read somewhere that those not picked would not receive notice.<p>So, hopefully some of you will get a surprise too as they continue to roll these out.

I feel like it's arriving expeditiously for TechCrunch because Google isn't stupid - they know they want press around this OS release so they already planned to ship it to the major blogs. I'd be curious to see if any HNers have theirs yet.

Surprised they didn't use sub-second precision ;)<p>"This application will be open until 11:59:59 PM PST on December 21, 2010."

My greatest joy in that article was reading that the machine is 12.1 inches. I was afraid that it would have the same netbook sized build as all the others and that that would make it unusable for me (my fingers ache on 10 inches or smaller). Knowing this, I'm going to have to attempt to get in the runnings when I'm finished with my move! (a month from now)

Is there any indication if you've been rejected (other than simply not receiving a new toy?)

Looks like they got as far as ripping the Mac keyboard/mousepad and went down bland-ville after that.