The Lenovo Chromebook Plus

A few months ago, around the time Googlebooks were announced, I became really interested in Chromebooks again, partly because I’d completely lost touch and partly because I heard good things about the new ARM chipsets, namely the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra. But Chromebooks are not a common thing in my neck of the woods. And, even then, there aren’t a lot of manufacturers that ship interesting hardware in this field. I’ve been seeing ARM laptops slowly take over the lower tiers of the Windows laptop market, but I was very curious about the current value proposition of either Googlebooks or vanilla Chromebooks. Disclaimer: Lenovo sent me this review unit free of charge, and this article follows my review policy. ChromeOS, Android and their trajectory For years now, the elephant in the room has been that both Googlebooks and Chromebooks are Google creatures first and foremost as far as user experience and software are concerned–and despite OEMs trying to figure out how to sell laptops that…