I was given a second hand CR-48 when my 'regular' laptop died 4 months ago. I repartitioned it and installed Ubuntu, and have been using it as my primary personal computer since then.
Every time it boots up, it does have an annoying and scary unhappy chromebook, "press space to make chromeos normal" screen, but since I rarely need to boot it from scratch, it's not a big deal.
I have an external 64GB USB stick which I'm using as my main media & other storage, as the on board SSD is tiny. Fast though - LibreOffice opens faster than MS office on Windows... That is in fact one of the most annoying things about it, is the lack of HD space. I have to constantly be aware of how much/little space I have left, and make sure to clear the apt cache frequently, not install too many big packages, etc.
I'm running awesomewm as my main window manager, often with firefox fullscreen when browsing.
Work wise, I'm mainly doing dev ops, and full stack development on this machine. I also do enough media related work that I couldn't use this as my main work computer, and have a work iMac at the office.
It's kind of limited, but I kind of like it. I'm thinking to build a desktop computer (since I have an external screen already) with the beef for working on large photo editing, and using that as a server & workstation when needed, but sticking with this for portability.
I'm not sure I'd buy one - certainly not a pixel at that price... the long battery life is great, the weight and form factor is great, but a better processor and "real" HD would make life quite a lot easier at times.
No... I can't afford a Pixel, and if I was going to spend that amount of money on a computer, I'd probably buy something with more 'oomph'. Sure a hi-res screen is nice, but apparently not enough content is there to make it really worth while. For DTP and media work, I could see it being really good, but since those applications aren't really ChromeOS friendly (yet?), I don't see the point.
For general web use (browser, email, terminal) a 'regular' chromebook is quite usable - even a 2 year old one.
Every time it boots up, it does have an annoying and scary unhappy chromebook, "press space to make chromeos normal" screen, but since I rarely need to boot it from scratch, it's not a big deal.
I have an external 64GB USB stick which I'm using as my main media & other storage, as the on board SSD is tiny. Fast though - LibreOffice opens faster than MS office on Windows... That is in fact one of the most annoying things about it, is the lack of HD space. I have to constantly be aware of how much/little space I have left, and make sure to clear the apt cache frequently, not install too many big packages, etc.
I'm running awesomewm as my main window manager, often with firefox fullscreen when browsing.
Work wise, I'm mainly doing dev ops, and full stack development on this machine. I also do enough media related work that I couldn't use this as my main work computer, and have a work iMac at the office.
It's kind of limited, but I kind of like it. I'm thinking to build a desktop computer (since I have an external screen already) with the beef for working on large photo editing, and using that as a server & workstation when needed, but sticking with this for portability.
I'm not sure I'd buy one - certainly not a pixel at that price... the long battery life is great, the weight and form factor is great, but a better processor and "real" HD would make life quite a lot easier at times.