Jon,
As you alluded to earlier, the Chromebook has uses outside the office as well. My wife has created her own user sign on, with her Gmail account, and can modify the bar and apps to her own needs. So for instance she downloaded her pottery pictures on our home desktop to her Shutterfly account with her Gmail address. On my 14 inch Chromebook, she signs on to her gmail account, connect to Shutterfly and works on updating, modifying the presentation of her pottery stuff for on line clients.
So in summary, the HP Pavillion Chromebook has fulfilled a nice niche at home and office. It is great to remote in to my "terminal server" at work and improve efficiency at office by manipulating with the secure and excellent remote desk top application. For my work flow running the Chromebook like my "terminal server" in the exam room considerably improves efficiency in office.
At home, my wife can do her thing without impacting my exclusive gmail account accessed through the same Chromebook.
I think this device has a place either at home or office or both, and for the price, I think it is well worth it. So hopefully, I have not steered anyone in the wrong direction, but this is just my incessant rattling on regarding this product to hopefully help anyone toying with the idea of purchasing one or not.
