I use a chromebook as a portable terminal in the data center. It's awesome. Termux for ssh sessions and common command line utilities, beagleterm if I need a serial console, and chrome for looking up stuff online. About 2 seconds from opening the cover to being usable, and battery that will last the whole workday.
I use a Chromebook in user mode for development at home. Using Caret for editing and Termux for nodejs stuff actually works quite well, but there are a few slightly annoying things like Chrome refusing to load things from localhost (Firefox for Android will). It's not a replacement for a proper computer but it works for tinkering.
