The new ones having much better local storage helps... it's honestly my second biggest complaint (behind the first, which is with my kernel version jack autosen

The new ones having much better local storage helps... it's honestly my second biggest complaint (behind the first, which is with my kernel version jack autosense has literally never worked correctly, so I have to manually toggle between headphones and the built-in speakers, which is maddening, but that's what you got when you wanted to run generic Linux and not ChromeOS or Linux-over-ChromeOS. I haven't had a chance to compile one of the kernel versions after the community upstreamed all of Google's drivers into Linus's tree). Despite being called a "Chromebook", it's really more of an Ultrabook, albeit one with slightly less refinement than a MacBook. However, it's still a pretty sturdy machine and fills the role of a travel ultrabook pretty well. The screen's form factor and the random-shitty-key-free keyboard were honestly the two biggest selling factors for me, and I'm quite enjoying them both. It's much more convenient to code on than any other laptop of its size I've used, thanks to the screen's unusual aspect ratio and high DPI. The biggest things I don't like about it are all about refinement; scrolling isn't as nice as two-finger scrolling on a Mac, you can accidentally hit the power button and suspend-to-disk the machine if you don't forget to configure your machine to disable to power button after boot, keyboard doens't have a "Fn" key, so you can't use the multimedia keys and the F-keys without some software jiggery-pokery... and just small bits like that. Most of these are complete non-issues if you intend on using ChromeOS... but I have absolutely no desire to turn my PCs into the same kind of walled gardens that we have in the mobile space.