The first season start of well with lots of cool dramatised hacking and startup culture scenes. But near the middle of the first season it had turned into a unbelievable soap opera with a bit of tech as a backdrop.
I have a chroot'ed Samsung Intel Chromebook that makes an OK development machine for small projects using Eclipse/Java/H2/Jetty. If I fully rooted it the extra ram would make the machine a bit more useful.