And on top of that you only get about 4-5 years of security updates from Google on a Chromebook before they give up on you. [1] That's should be an embarrassingly short amount of time even for a computer product, but alas.... Google doesn't care and most Chromebook users are none the wiser. I wonder how many would choose differently if they knew that Microsoft offers a bare minimum of 10 years of support on their products. How sad is it that "Embrace, extend, extinguish" provides support for their products for twice as long as Google does?

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en