"In reality, we expect about one quarter of the apps to not have Intel [x86] binaries," Hornung told Ars http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-

"In reality, we expect about one quarter of the apps to not have Intel [x86] binaries," Hornung told Ars http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-to-chrome-os-but-not-the-way-we-were-expecting/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-... Hopefully that means we'll see a lot more ARM-based Chromebooks as well going forward. No need for an Intel monopoly in the architecture agnostic Chrome OS world, so I hope Google and its partners will stop encouraging that monopoly going forward. Cortex A72/Snapdragon 820 have Core M-level performance. If Core M is good enough for a $400 Chromebook, then those are also good for a $300 touch-enabled Chromebook.