[mjn]

Most of mine is done offline, which is so far the dealbreaker for the Chromebook for me. I need to be able to run vim on a local filesystem on a plane. I hear it's possible to root the Chromebook though?

[wickedchicken]

It's pretty straightforward, and as long as you don't modify the hardware it's completely reversible:

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...