Huh? In the AMA they hinted that the thing can boot other OSes.

Whatever the convergence plan is, Pixel C is the test hardware. The bootloader bits are in the ChromeOS tree. It uses Coreboot.

It's a ChromeOS device and I suspect it's future will include a return to its roots.

ARC in Chrome will be a better way forward for Android than trying to fix all of Android's insidious problems on the "desktop" and making mobile Chrome more fully featured. It just seems painfully obvious that Chrome is going to win.

It's better tech all around.

If so, I guess this would be a fantastic machine for running Linux ARM.

This (well, *BSD) is what I'm interested in. It'll be interesting to hear from the Linux/BSD pioneers what the networking, gfx, and touchscreen support are.

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Except for the slightly odd keyboard (e.g. no Esc), this could be a fantastic machine for a keyboard driven setup.

That's how I use my MBA 11''. XMonad, mutt and friends.

But this one could be better.

At least the MBA is a clamshell. This I could not imagine working on.... Why didn't they just do a Nvidia X1 Chromebook.