On: New $250 Chromebook

[TheMagicHorsey]

The weirdest thing about these Chromebooks is that they are terrible machines to code on. You would think that Google would make some sort of effort to put some free development tools on them to promote their technologies like AppEngine, DART, Go, etc.

Instead we are left with various garbage pail cloud IDEs.

I would totally get one of these, but I'll probably install Ubuntu on it (at least as a dual boot).

[skeletonjelly → TheMagicHorsey]

Weirdest? Did you see any developers in that video? I think you're misunderstanding who this is targeted at.

Having said that they would make nice dev machines, it'll just take a bit of effort.

[TheMagicHorsey → skeletonjelly]

But that's my point. People have been trying to get kids to start coding. What better way than to make the price of entry less than $300.

[Evbn → TheMagicHorsey]

They have SSH, so they are better than Android and iOS tablets for this task.

[biafra → Evbn]

You mean: They have a keyboard.

Both iOS and Android have SSH.