It is not fundamentally flawed, it just isn't a general purpose computer. It's a thin client to your cloud services. The "local" is not a primary compute enviro

It is not fundamentally flawed, it just isn't a general purpose computer. It's a thin client to your cloud services. The "local" is not a primary compute environment, but just a cache. Once you think about it this way, Chromebooks are absolutely amazing little physical manifestations of a remotely managed browser. As they are intended to be.