They’re much under rated.
I was given a £180-£200 Acer Chromebook by work. Apart from the poor screen (I’m used to Macs) it was a great little machine.
I was so impressed with it that I went out and bought a Google Chromebook Pixel. Amazing machine. I love it.
Before people jump in and say they can’t use one because of [blah], they’re not going to replace the devices of power users. But, for most people wanting a computer, they’ll do virtually all they’ll need.
I totally agree with this. I also have a chomebox. If you outgrow it you can always replace it with Linux.
But you’ll be fine with chrome.
Need hardware to run Ubuntu. What hardware? Chromebox is possible contender.