I look at the cheap Chromebooks or expensive (yet still underpowered) Microsoft laptops that my kids bring home from school, and I can’t help but think how much of a waste they are. From a financial standpoint, these Chromebooks don’t have enough power to keep up after 2 or 3 years of use, and they also break if you look at them the wrong way. If they could be upgraded or repaired, I imagine it would ultimately save money. My oldest kid has a public school-issued Microsoft laptop, one of the smaller Surface variants, and the thing is a joke. It’s so underpowered and so expensive for what it is, I can’t believe anybody thought that purchasing hundreds of these for students was a good idea. I’m pretty sure it’s like a $700 computer! If they dropped an extra couple hundred bucks, that would buy an entry level framework 13 with a newer processor, longer battery life, bigger screen, bigger hard drive, more memory, never mind the repairability aspect.

To be fair, I didn’t say they “are going to sell a billion,” I said they “ought to sell a billion.” Your points are well taken.