Google says it will deploy this new feature "in the coming days" and notes that you'll also need the latest version of Chrome's desktop beta in order to successfully sync your account.

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It seems Google is going out of its way to make it clear that this isn't a mass market device, with Chrome OS still in the beta stage, and no apparent intentions to compete with third parties in the hardware space.

ENGADGET: Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop

There are beta versions of both Chrome and Firefox in the works, but it is unclear how apps for those browsers will work on Windows 8.

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Google has released a beta version of a Chrome notebook.

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Besides a seemingly broad range of employees, consumers, and technology journalists, Google is running beta tests of the Chrome OS machine with a range of businesses and institutions, including American Airlines, Kraft, Interncontinental Hotels, Cardinal Health, Virgin America, and the Department of Defense.

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Google will distribute the laptop through its Chrome OS Pilot Program, in a sort of public beta.

ENGADGET: Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop

As Google continues to work on improving Chrome for Android, today's update for the company's beta build of its browser appears to be a step in the right direction.

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Being a company of utter geeks, Google called this beta test laptop the Cr-48 after the chemical name of an unstable isotope of the chrome element.

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