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.

FORBES: Google Chrome, Everyone Disrupted

Google has released a beta version of a Chrome notebook.

FORBES: Google Chrome, HP Printers - Software Uber Alles

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.

ENGADGET: Chrome beta for Android delivers a proxy-based speed boost, now syncs autofill and saved passwords

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.

FORBES: Names You Need to Know: Cr-48