For Christmas I ordered myself a Samsung Chromebook, which is a cloud-based net book for those that don’t know. So far I am really impressed with the thing. I couldn’t really figure out what to get for Christmas this year, I have a Kindle Fire and I really like it, its perfect for reading and occasional web surfing, but I am just not a big fan of soft keyboards, they just aren’t where I would like them yet. The Samsung Chromebook has a very nice keyboard that I have used and as a developer it is very quick to type out lots of of code or write a document for a blog like this one. So far it is exactly what I was wanting that wasn’t so large and heavy to lug around and flexible enough to get work done on, with a nice price of $250.
I have already enabled developer mode on it so I can get access to the command shell and execute Linux commands on it, which I know very little about but have plans on learning a lot about down the road. I will be posting about how to get it to developer mode in the coming days, so stay tuned. I personally think this is where computing is headed, it makes too much sense, we are pretty much in the day and age of throw-away devices and this device is one. I have already accidentally factory-reset this device and it didn’t matter because all my data is stored in the cloud, I just logged back in and I was back where I started. It starts up in around 6 seconds, gets updates every 6 weeks or so and the battery lasts at least 6 hrs. I will also be posting my favorite apps I have used so far, so stay tuned for that as well, if you are on the fence about one, I highly recommend getting one, you won’t be disappointed. I think Google has hit a home-run on this device.
