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The Chromebook Isn't Bad, Just Misunderstood

The announcement of the Chromebook Pixel has driven something home for me: People don't get the Chromebook—and by people, I mostly mean the tech journalists covering it. Reviewers and pundits have poo-pooed Google's Web-connected laptops almost since day one, harping on the devices for being too expensive, too limited, too reliant on the Web. In the meantime, Chromebooks have gotten astonishingly inexpensive, picked up all sorts of functionality, and greatly expanded that functionality online and off.

The Chromebook is a category unto itself, distinct from regular laptops. And the features championed by Google's Chromebook experiment are already sending ripples through the tech world, with Microsoft's Office 365 offering an answer to Google Docs, and cloud storage services like SkyDrive and Dropbox gaining popularity. Chromebooks may not be for all users in all circumstances, but they still have a place in the market, and are rapidly evolving beyond the devices that formed the basis of many reviewers' first impressions. Shouldn't those opinions be evolving as well?