Lately I've found that more and more of my work can be done running emacs in screen over a mosh connection to a server, so the idea of a cheap Chromebook with excellent battery life is increasingly tempting. The Pixel looks lovely to me, but I don't need a touchscreen and the price is very high - are there any lower end options that people think are particularly nice machines? Most of the cheap options just seem to have crappy build quality when I've played with them in stores.