
Of course, not all Chromebooks are created equal, and several prominent companies have scrambled to make their own version of Google Chrome’s famed infrastructure. Perfectly suitable for almost all of the day-to-day tasks we demand from the internet, these laptops are an ideal choice when it comes to getting work done on a commute, on vacation, or even in the office whenever you require a little less firepower to get the job done.

You can think of these tiny-yet-mighty laptops as a little more than a powerful web browser with a trackpad and a keyboard-or perhaps a large-screen extension of your smartphone. These machines are called Chromebooks, and they’re upending the personal computer market in new and exciting ways. For the average person who uses their laptop for surfing the web, sending emails, and watching the occasional Netflix show, there are far more affordable laptop computers that can handle these tasks perfectly well. Most of us don’t need that much processing power to get through the day, and we’re dishing out way more money than we should be on (admittedly awesome-looking) products that do far more than we need.

Your average laptop is more powerful than ever these days, but performance increases come with price hikes.
