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Chromebooks are essentially this, but not that great for local development.

So then one solution might be to buy a Chromebook, and put regular Linux on it? I don’t think the Chromebook are locked down.

Yes you can do that, I think there are also chroot options; its running a Linux kernel already.

edit: actually it looks like this era is coming to an end; Crouton was archived earlier this year. Probably it still works on older models: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

Depends on which one, and what you want to locally develop.

Is there one that even has a full keyboard?

HP makes a 17" Chromebook if that's what you're after.

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