(01-07-2017, 02:28 AM)Mafia Wrote: that alone devours my interest completely, especially when you can get an x230 for like $120-$200 on ebay. why bother with a chromebook? at one point i saw the appeal but now? not even a little.

I have to completely agree here. Laptops that have more power (or the capabilities to add more hardware down the road), have a better build quality and often enough better battery life are available for the same price, or even less. So if you're comfortable outside of a Google environment, which probably everyone here is, there's not much to them. If it was for $insert_computer_unsavvy_relative, that would be a completely different story.