School's in for Chromebooks, Google's the top swot in class

Just bought a Toshiba Chromebook II

Partly for the *excellent* screen, partly for the portability, battery life, and weight.

Now I've installed a Linux distribution (using crouton, with Cinnamon desktop environment, after jumping through a few hoops) I'm really pleased with it. It'll never be a power-user machine but it does simple development, plus all the internet stuff that I need and without the need to be connected all the time.

Though it's not something I'd recommend to the Aged Parents[tm] or even daughter who has used linux for years. As a chromebook it does suffer rather from the same problems that afflict android tablets: not everything I do is connected to the web.

And where's the bloody delete key? What imbecile decided that was unnecessary?

If you want to equip an IT lab for young fanbois one Mac Pro plus 20 odd1 chromebooks will do the job at a fraction of the cost of buying Macbooks. Look it up.

Created by Google as a low-cost method for increasing the number of people using the internet without feeding the Redmond monster.