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I own a chromebook and macbook. I do all my coding on a chromebook. I use the ChromeOS as my GUI, dropbox as my filesystem, and crouton to run the ubuntu termi

• notacoward 10y ago
  > I do all my coding on a chromebook. > crouton to run the ubuntu terminal underneath it all. Ditto. I can alt-tab and share clipboard between the ChromeOS environment where everything Just Works and the Crouton environment where I do my coding. Quite nice, especially considering that a Chromebook costs anywhere from 20-60% as much as an Apple laptop. I'm on a Pixel 2 (non-LS version), which replaced an MBA. Despite being one of the most expensive Chromebooks ever, it was still several hundred dollars cheaper than what it replaced - with a higher-resolution screen and better battery life. With some of the newer Chromebooks that are out there, some slightly better and significantly cheaper than what I have now (the Acer Chromebook 14 for Work is a particular standout), a Mac starts to seem like the idiot's choice even for developers.