I am considering getting a cheap laptop and turn that into a developer machine. I don’t like using MBP when I am in the bed being the main excuse. It looks like Crouton is the way to go for hacking the Chromebook into a debian machine. Only downside is Samsung ChromeBook is ARM based, which means it’s not possible to run binaries that are not compiled for ARMs.
http://www.howtogeek.com/162120/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-your-chromebook-with-crouton/