When I got my Linode VPS a few months ago, I became entranced of an idea, what if I could have a completely minimalistic developer laptop and do my “work” in the cloud. I had played around with a few formulations of this ( iPad + keyboard ), netbook, MacBook Air, etc. With the recent release of the Chromebook I started to wonder: could I use the chromebook as a dumb terminal to my Linode? Any heavy processing would be done on the Linode, all I really need “locally” is to have acccess to an SSH client and a browser. I’m proud to say that the new Samsung 303C12 meets these needs.