[knotty66]

For a cheap, lightweight development laptop I use a Toshiba Chromebook 2 (2015) with a 240GB SSD fitted. Build quality is not up to Apple standards but is still decent.

Screen is much, much better than Macbook Air screen though. Battery life is very good. I use Arch Linux and With a bit of tweaking, everything works (bluetooth, wifi, keyboard backlight, suspend/resume etc).

I can also dual boot into ChromeOS which is quite nice in it's own right. Lovely machine for the money ...

[andycjw]

I can only find Toshiba Chromebook 2 with 16GB SSD onboard, how did you get 240GB SSD fitted?

[nickjj]

You can buy http://amzn.to/2a4isAQ [0] and swap it in. This model is compatible with the Chromebook you mentioned. It's about $50 for the 128GB SSD expansion.

[0] Yes this is an affiliate link through my Amazon account.