I'm typing on a 11" Samsung Chromebook right now and love it, though I never would have expected to be reporting that a year ago. At $140 for a refurbished mode

I'm typing on a 11" Samsung Chromebook right now and love it, though I never would have expected to be reporting that a year ago. At $140 for a refurbished model, I can take it on trips and not worry about theft. The biggest trade-off is that I have to keep some of my number-crunching on a server that I ssh into, which does limit working from trains/planes/busses/etc. My biggest gripe is that the method I'm using to run a proper linux environment (Crouton) creates a startup situation that risks blowing away my hard drive image if anyone but me opens the laptop and follows the "Press the Spacebar to exit Developer Mode" (or whatever it says) message. I really hope Google realizes they've got a community of programmers using Chromebooks as trip-friendly development machines and creates proper support for dual booting (or chrooting) into linux.