This would make sense if somehow Chrome was a powerful platform that could take advantage of high-powered hardware in the cloud. In practice, Chrome is extremel

This would make sense if somehow Chrome was a powerful platform that could take advantage of high-powered hardware in the cloud. In practice, Chrome is extremely limited in how it can actually use the hardware and thus nobody is writing high-end applications to target Chrome. Therefore, realistically the only thing that you can meaningfully speed up with this is already woefully inefficient web apps, in case your hardware isn't up to par. However, at that price point, you should just buy better hardware.