you can buy a celeron no-name/Chinese brand ultrabook for like 250 bucks, and that generally comes with a minimum of 8gb of ram and an M2 slot. Chuwi is one exa

you can buy a celeron no-name/Chinese brand ultrabook for like 250 bucks, and that generally comes with a minimum of 8gb of ram and an M2 slot. Chuwi is one example. I'm not sure that the value-add for Chromebooks as personal machines is still there at that point, at least personally. For me 50 dollars is worth the freedom of operating system/double the ram/ddr5/3:2/decent resolution/m2 interface/separation from Google.