Chromebooks are cheap and simple little machines that you can safely give to children. With the available options on the market, parents are not going to buy an

Chromebooks are cheap and simple little machines that you can safely give to children. With the available options on the market, parents are not going to buy an expensive Apple laptop for their middle or high school students. Instead, they want to give them something that can be replaced, if needed, by simply repurchasing. In general, Apple's products are way too complex to give to a young student. Parents are "afraid" of their kids messing with the computer or bricking it, so they constrain their use and don't allow kids to experiment. Gone are the days where you can open a computer, play with the hardware, create a game, or write your own device drivers. Parents have to play the role of "IT Support" for their students/children, and if they don't know how to fix it, the computer is useless or constrained to just a few simple scripted uses. The Chromebook fixes this by making computers disposable. The operating system, being limited in functionality to begin with, can't easily be broken. And Chromebooks are cheap enough that if they get dropped, hacked, bricked or otherwise rendered useless, you throw it away and get a new one. Chromebook reduces and removes the need for parents to mess with hardware or operating system configuration options. It also removes the concern over account sharing, itunes purchases, warez, etc.