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Chromebooks cost less now than some textbooks. They are difficult machines to mess up. The software for teachers is excellent.

Google won this one.

I love my Chromebook. It's the first laptop I've felt comfortable traveling with. I'm notorious for losing things, or having them stolen. (I once had an expensive camera stolen at Disneyland...) I've been burdened with frightfully expensive laptops (the kind worth more than my personal automobiles) and I've hated it. I feel like I'm babysitting a machine. Losing a Chromebook wouldn't be a serious financial hit. If I'm logged out my personal data is fairly safe from casual crooks too. I log out when I travel.

The offline Chromebook apps are perfectly adequate for the writing I do. I don't need an internet connection. There are offline games I find amusing too.

Microsoft is trying to catch up here, but what's the point of Windows if it's doing what ChromeOS can do on far less expensive machines?

My desktops run Linux. It's not that I'm hostile toward Google, Microsoft, or Apple, it's just that Linux does exactly what I want it to do with minimal fuss. The first real operating system I used was BSD and Linux is very similar to that. I suppose I could still use BSD, but I have better luck with Debian Linux (and it's variations) on the machines I stumble upon.