I'm not sure what you are arguing for. I'm not entirely sold on their value proposition. I just think that they are building something like a chromebook without

I'm not sure what you are arguing for. I'm not entirely sold on their value proposition. I just think that they are building something like a chromebook without the conventional limitations of chromebooks. The talk of sourcing friendly parts or replicating chromebook's methodology isn't very accurate because a) The deals that Google can get can't necessarily be replicated by others b) There probably aren't magical "friendly" parts. The parts are mostly similar across laptops with significant engineering and s/w work done by Google (for coreboot etc.), or by Purism in this case for their laptops.