On: Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads

[citruspi]

Unless you develop specifically with Microsoft technologies, Chromebooks can easily be used by developers as well. You can easily dual boot or run crouton[0].

[0]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

[malkia → citruspi]

This! I have 3 croutonized chromebooks, and as of yesterday one HP chromebox. Takes no time to do it.

All running now debian/sid in chroot.

You want scratch?

"sudo apt-get install scratch". Then have some fun!

Or maybe frogatto, or emacs, or QtCreator, or tons of good free software out there...

for half, or even quarter the price of iPad.