I'm not a kid in school, but a highly paid software engineer and I have gone with a Chromebook. It does what I do, surf the internet and for 10+ hours on a single charge. When I want to do some programming, I just ssh into my several-year-old Linux desktop and use tmux + vim.
If ChromeOS opened up its Linux internals without using the crouton hack, it would destroy every other platform out there.
If ChromeOS opened up its Linux internals without using the crouton hack, it would destroy every other platform out there.