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:

Installing Linux on the Chromebook Pixel

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 :-)