We "splurged" and bought our kids a 4 GB Celeron Chromebook (as opposed to 2 GB + ARM) last year. They have user profiles for their school account and a persona

We "splurged" and bought our kids a 4 GB Celeron Chromebook (as opposed to 2 GB + ARM) last year. They have user profiles for their school account and a personal account. I don't have to worry about random things showing up in /Applications. So many nice things about a box that does a few things really well that's hard to screw up. When my 2009 MBP died 6 months later, I realized that I never go anywhere with it anymore (iPad) so I replaced it with an ASUS Chromebox. I've tinkered with upgrading storage and DRAM for using Ubuntu/Crouton, but that hasn't prevented me from relying on my wife's iMac for many things.