I've been pleasantly surprised by how well my chromebook works as a dev machine, and I'd even go as far as to recommend it. A few tips and comments to those con

I've been pleasantly surprised by how well my chromebook works as a dev machine, and I'd even go as far as to recommend it. A few tips and comments to those considering it: You'll want the secure shell and chrome remote desktop extensions. Note that there's also a hidden secure shell beta channel [0]. If you have vpn requirements, be sure to check for compatibility first: though openvpn and l2tp are supported, I wasn't able to get either working. Vpn fixes are supposedly in the works [1]. Install ubuntu onto an sd card and dual boot is possible (even on arm) [2]. I haven't needed to do this, though. Other exciting - but currently abandoned - possibilities: vim and mosh as chrome extensions [3] [4]. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/f8UoLP6mBoE/yVzo7GCeG5gJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/f8U... [1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=35515 http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=35515 [2] https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJ... [3] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/source/browse/trunk/nacl/googleclient/native_client/tests/vim/?r=319 http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/source/browse/trunk/na... [4] https://github.com/davidben/mosh-chrome https://github.com/davidben/mosh-chrome