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Just was catching up on this thread, figured I'd pipe in since I've had my Chromebook for about a year now.
In short, for anyone with a desktop or who does little that isn't browser based, or could be broswer based (think switching to google docs), the chromebooks are an amazing deal. They're light weight, they boot/wake up insanely fast, ChromeOS doesn't have a ton of functionality but that also means it's easy to get up to speed and forget you're on a new OS. Essentially everything I wanted in a laptop.
I got my Toshiba Chromebook2 for about $200, and you just can't come anywhere close to that for a Windows machine and lolAppleprices. The only drawback so far: Video play back (of videos that are on disk) is spotty at best and the Android port of VLC is terrible-- however I've found that dropping the file in your Google Drive allows you to stream it from there, and that's worked great (however, there are a surprising number of relatively powerful web based apps now, from 3d modeling to picture and video editing.) Also, as I read in some reviews, this particular model has some issues with the screen getting vertical dead pixel lines-- mine has three now, luckily they're off to the side, and I've just been to lazy to follow up and ship the thing in for warranty.
I love this laptop, but in the future I do think I'd spend just a little more-- at the time there was a Dell model that came in under $400 that reviews said had superior build quality (think full aluminum case/frame, etc), and no issues with the screen. But all in all, I'm really impressed with what you get for the price of a chromebook.
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