It really surprised me . . .
I registered at: http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program.html which is still open to new registrations until 11:59 tonight pacific time. I registered I think the first day of the program a couple of weeks ago and I figured I had a slim chance of getting this model of free laptop which is a prototype unit for beta testing and not for sale. They’ll have a model for sale sometime around summer of 2011.
I’ll post a review at a later time.