My guess is that they throttle a bit. ChromeOS machines tend to sleep and resume really well and sacrifice performance for battery. In a world full of low end

My guess is that they throttle a bit. ChromeOS machines tend to sleep and resume really well and sacrifice performance for battery. In a world full of low end garbage windows machines, it actually makes them a pretty nice little niche. Lots of consumers would likely find them much better than a lot of the $1-200 more expensive Windows laptops.