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Chromebooks make excellent portable SSH terminals (see [0]) thanks to having decent keyboards (esp. for the price range) and great battery life. http://c9.io shows some promise as well, though IMHO it still doesn't beat good old-fashioned tmux.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

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If you spend any time at all without net connectivity, you need to be able to work with native tools on a cloned code repo. The machine is more than powerful enough for plenty of local dev tasks, it's really a shame you can't work locally.

Is there any indication that they'll ever add windowed (not full-screen) X-forwarding?

When I'm working from afar, ssh with tunneled X is all I need.

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