As always, it depends on what you want to use it for. I say this even as a borderline Apple "hater" but if you want to use the notebook for running Office or t

As always, it depends on what you want to use it for. I say this even as a borderline Apple "hater" but if you want to use the notebook for running Office or the Adobe suite or any number of OSX- (or even Windows-) only software, running the Chromebook OS or Chrubuntu won't get you what you need, regardless of savings. Not saying I'd personally shell out for a MBP (because there's nothing I need that is OSX-only) but most of my applications need at least OSX or Windows to run.