What don't I like? For starters, the exterior is basically a knock-off of the Macbook Air. This type of crummy me-too design is consistent with other products

What don't I like? For starters, the exterior is basically a knock-off of the Macbook Air. This type of crummy me-too design is consistent with other products considered cheap crap. Next, in terms of functionality, I am to understand that the Chromebook does not offer much more than a web browser. To some people this is just how our cloud-filled future will be. To me, it just does less. That's not a feature. It's just crappy. Third, I am to understand that it is loaded with, and possibly tied to Google services. I like Google search fine and well, but I'm very sick of Google trying to turn the entire population into "data prostitutes" who trade privacy for convenience. No, I don't want to upload all my documents into Google. No, I don't want all my communication stored by Google. No, I don't want my location and all my movements tracked by Google. No, I don't want all my web browsing activity to be tracked by Google. The whole prospect seems orwellian. I'm guessing someone will tell me that my concerns will be resolved if I load Linux on it. Well, I used Linux on the desktop for years, and I got tired of having to cruise forums and bug reports to work around whatever the latest issue with it was. I finally bought a Macbook and you know what? It just works. It has all the cool unix stuff I need on the command line, plus a pretty solid package manager in the form of Homebrew. Not to mention the hardware is first-class. I'm sorry if it sounds like FUD to you that I don't want to jump back into a tar pit of f'ing around with Linux on the desktop. My time is worth more than that. Note: I still use Linux on the server and it's pretty great. It's the desktop that I consider a waste of time. So in summary, it just looks like a crappy knock-off that sacrifices user privacy and does not do very much. And the price is cheap, that's a fact.