It has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online.

Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.

Many developers (most? I suppose there are more developers on Linux than OSX) would find that "configuration hassle" a feature.

I flipped over to Macs from Linux desktops (laptops) because I was tired of reconfiguring things every 6 months or so. This was also ten years ago, but there is something very comforting in having a dedicated system that is well configured and tested that also has a good command prompt.

What? Why would you suppose that? Developers don't like hassle any more than non-developers do. We're still people with work to get done.

That's why I quoted "configuration hassle"

Because you don't think they are? I do.

And you didn't say why you suppose more developers use Linux than OS X. My experience is the exact opposite.

Why? Configuration is a sysadmin or at best devops area. In my experience, most developers want to write software on a machine that gets out of their way.

They may need a particular flavor of Linux to test on, but those are typically server builds anyway, so not great for everyday computing. That's what solutions like Vagrant or cheap cloud servers are for.

Interesting how you call OS X UNIX, as opposed to Linux.

OS X is more close to his UNIX heritage than Linux.

If by "interesting", you mean "accurate"

By "interesting" I mean a BSD veneer over a Mach core is only marginally better UNIX compatibility than Windows Services for UNIX (also POSIX certified). Did you know you can call Mach directly to override basically all the UNIX emulation, including access permissions?

Only one of them is POSIX certified. Hint: it's not Linux.

Not sure why that's interesting, OS X is a UNIX system and completely unrelated to Linux...

OSX is unix

Better hardware for the screen and LTE possibly, but the storage and memory options are inadequate for such an expensive system.

If they offered the same memory and storage options, it would be a lot more attractive.

Also, trackpad still sucks compared to Apple's.

And the price really should be lower given that you get less value out of the box.

These are nice, but I was under the impression that the weak spot was not quite enough ram given the large number of pixels, and the impossibility of upgrading the memory.

EDIT: Yes, I am referring to the Pixel here.

He is talking about the Chromebook Pixel. :)

+1 Thanks for the correction.

What's the battery life like? Shit isn't it?