It's far from crap, it's my standard day to day laptop now, has been since November.
I still have my lenovo laptop for when I need it, but that's pretty rare
I still have my lenovo laptop for when I need it, but that's pretty rare
I've gotten 95% of my development tools working properly on it. Granted, most of those tools are command-line based (i.e. vim, git, python, etc.), so it's not really a surprise. The only barriers keeping this from becoming my only computer are things that I never expected it to conquer in the first place. I didn't get it with the expectation it could run IntelliJ/Arduino, so no hard feelings there.
I now reach for the Chromebook far more often than I do my (older generation) Macbook Air.
I have a mac laptop at work, which I only keep around for video editing, but you can even do basic video editing in the browser nowadays, with sites such as WeVideo and Pixorial.
With the Chromebook, I get longer battery life, a lighter frame, a faster startup time, no fans/heating issues, and more consistent keyboard shortcuts (there's only one set to remember because there's only one app). Some of these might not be issues with the MBA line anymore, but mine is a first-gen machine.
Aside from the things I mentioned in my original comment, my Macbook Air is really just a keyboard, web browser, and terminal to me. Well, the Chromebook is too, and it's a better one at that.
When I first got it, the default ssh client was javascript based, but you could get the native code version by joining a specific Google group and then installing a development version of the same ssh client, not sure if thats changed yet
My Samsung ARM Chromebook has two partitions, one of which loads into ChromeOS and one which loads into a full Ubuntu/ARM rootfs.