$999 (2.2GHz i5, 8GB RAM, 32G SSD) and $1299 (2.g4GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 64G SSD), 2560x1700 12.85" touch screen, Intel 5500 graphics, 2 USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB Type-C ports, SD card, audio jack, 720p webcam, Bluetooth 4.0. Really a very nice machine; seems a little overpowered for the cloud-oriented ChromeOS. Stingy SSD can be fixed with a generous high-speed SD card. Presuming it's dual-bootable, I'd be tempted though. I'd been planning to spring for the new Macbook Air but now that Apple's declared war on ports, this looks more my style.

The Air is unaffected by the 'port war'.

I hear what you're saying and agree...trending towards the Pixel...touch screen !! derp

Anyone care to explain how they somehow haven't ruined VirtualBox yet?

It's on the way. The performance and feature gap between VMWare and Virtualbox is widening everyday.

Great, now bars will start implementing MITM attacks on their wifi routers to steer you to yesterday's flat keg.

You could use a VPN, or Picky Pint could encrypt its connection... does it?

While we're on the topic, here's a cute tip: To make the opposite move -- from the command prompt to an explorer window of the current directory -- use "start ."

Similar, for OS X use "open ." (or replace the "." with whatever file you want to open)

Easier to remember: explorer .

Great, I'll be busy prepping an Android VM appliance for this that I can install on every machine I touch. Probably a good idea to isolate Office code from the real OS anyway. Hope I can get printing to work.

I wonder why you're being downvoted for a hackish idea on a site called 'Hacker News' eyes rolling. I think the idea is interesting - not sure how to make file sharing work though, can you mount SSH drives from the local network on Android? Or do you want to just use Dropbox for that?

Given there is Android for x86 (atom), it should not be that hard indeed.