That is the question. I have a Google Cr-48 as you may know and part of the experience with it is the possibility to run in what is called Dev mode. To get there you shut the laptop down, remove the battery, flip a toggle switch near the battery connector under a piece of black tape, and then put the battery back and boot it up. This wipes the SSD "stateful partition" and you basically set things up all over again which isn't so bad since you're already living in the cloud, all your stuff will sync back up. Then you have a more expanded shell and I think the option to update to dev versions of the OS and browser (not confirmed). I've always been the geeky, nerdy type so I want to do that really bad but at the same time I kind of want to keep it in its original, pristine state and test this thing as "joe user" would have it. I hear some people have been successful in clearing a bug with the audio by switching to dev mode and back so I'd like to try that but I'd rather not have to redo my picture etc. (you walk through the original setup each time you switch modes). So the question is to Dev or not to Dev. I guess we'll all find the answer eventually. Stay tuned.