Google Chromebook

Why I left my new MacBook for a $250 Chromebook

“Why I left my new MacBook for a $250 Chromebook” is a nice write up of a new Chromebook user. Even though I don’t own a MacBook (or any Mac products for that matter), I have been considering a Chromebook for a while now too.

My biggest concern is obviously programming and system administration tools – editors, terminals, remote access, etc. But it’s getting there.

Apart from the experiences and wishlists, I found these two links useful:

SnoozeTab, which I just installed and will keep an eye on for the next few days.
10 best Chromebooks 2016: top Chromebooks reviewed, which I will use as my shopping guide.

Everything You Need to Know About Google’s I/O Keynote

Everything you need to know about Google’s I/O keynote – a must read.

Dell Chromebook 11 review

Installing Linux on the Chromebook Pixel

From this point forward, every time you boot, it’s going to say that Chrome OS can’t be found or something similarly alarming like that, just ignore and hit Ctr-D or wait 30 seconds to boot into Chrome OS. But that won’t be relevant for long as we’re going to wipe it off the machine below :-)