Unplugged (Updated)

From CR-48

Today I am continuing my breaking-in of the CR-48. Christmas day I took it up to my mom's over night. I didn't much need it as there was much family-togetherness going on, but I did break it out as some point for one reason or another. I had the power cord with me but was able to go the weekend without so much as taking it out of my backpack. So for today's test, I find myself at my friendly neighborhood Starbucks. And I left the power cord at home. I know right. Living dangerously. I left the house with a full charge and walked the quarter mile or so distance. After ordering and sitting down I was refreshed to see that my the CR-48 still had 99% battery remaining. Now, after an hour of continuous use, it's at 88% with an estimated 7 hours remaining. Assuming it will continue to drain at a rate of 10% per hour, it is actually being pretty conservative. Not bad.

When I got here, I had no problem connecting to Starbucks' attwifi network, passing through their welcome screen, TOS, etc. and commencing with the web browsing. I'm now going to see what I can do with an SD card/USB thumb drive I brought along.

Ok, SD card inserted... nothing.

(20 minutes later) AH HAH! just found a little thing called "about:flags." Apparently by typing the phrase into the omni box, I get a list of the experimental features for Chrome OS that i can choose to enable as i see fit. Including a media player and advanced file system (which includes USB and SD card support).

And sure enough, my SD card triggered a notification that it was being scanned. Unfortunately, it would seem that "scanning" is as far as I can go through the SD slot... or the USB port. Oh well.

I'm now back home. After 2 hours of use and 2 more hours of standby, I am at 75%. There's some math there. Math that I choose not to do. That is all.

(Update: I ended up going nearly the entire week without charging. With moderate use every evening, I needed to plug in for the first time Thursday night.)