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Originally Posted by Matteob
I am sorry but I would not pay this for a chromebook. It is the most restrictive machine out there in what you can run on it due to its walled garden.I hope it does fail as it seems exactly what Jonathan Zittrain is talking about in his "Future of the Internet and how to Stop it". I am much more in favour of windows or apple which lets you run third party applications (even at the risk of malware on a pc) than the restrictive environment of a chromebook. I like android phones and tablets but the laptop is a crazy idea. I would not even buy their base £199 version as all it is is a net browsing tool.
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Feel free not to buy one, but using web-based apps doesn't make it a walled garden. The Chromebook (the $199 and the $249 version, that is) is selling pretty well, it's hard to keep it in stock.