The new Plus category of Chromebooks is an assurance that you’ll get a higher level of performance and features but still at a reasonable starting price.
With Chromebook Plus, you’re guaranteed to get at least the following specs, with a starting price of $399:
- 12th-gen Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 processor or better
- 8GB or more of memory
- 128GB or more of storage
- 1080p-resolution IPS LCD or better
- 1080p webcam with temporal noise reduction
Apple laptops you can’t upgrade any of those things and they sell like hotcakes. It’s really not something most people do.
Chromebooks have their niche, beyond education they’re good as second laptops where you’re really only doing mostly browser stuff. Mine is getting on a bit now, a 2017 pixelbook… but it doesn’t go EOL until next year and I’ll probably keep it beyond that because it just works… only thing I’d like really would be a bigger screen.