The original point of Chromebooks was to be a cheap and disposable thin clients primarily for businesses and schools. That's still their primary purpose, but th

The original point of Chromebooks was to be a cheap and disposable thin clients primarily for businesses and schools. That's still their primary purpose, but they've shown to be more popular with home consumers than original anticipated. Google isn't bending Chrome OS from it's vision at all. The only thing they've really changed about them (from a big-picture perspective) is that they were originally planned to be netbook sized (in order to be cheap) but that fad died and you can now build notebook sized computers for the same price, so all Chromebooks are notebook size now.