These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. If you're interested in the technical details, read on!

Equipment used:
- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor - 24" Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps

Neowin managed to get an official word from a Google PR spokesperson to tell us a little more about how the video was shot. Google did indeed confirm that two parts of the video were shot using a locally loaded webpage, while the other scene, Chrome vs. sound, was filmed loading Pandora.com from the Internet, on a 15Mbps connection. In the email, Google explains the reasoning behind filming Chrome vs. potato with a locally loaded webpage:

For the Chrome Browser vs. Potato film, we used a version of the web page allrecipes.com that is accessible when logged in. About four hours into the Potato Gun shoot we decided to use a locally loaded version of the web page to enable more precise synchronization with the potato gun. We finally got the shot we were hoping for after 51 takes.