- So this company sells a laptop that works as a browser for a online site and nothing else.

- great, i will buy one and waste a lot of time to make it work offline.

... genius. just genius.

I would just write it off as a good hack or something, but the chrome books have ZERO advantage. it's hardware is pure garbage if you compare it to anything on the same price range.

And you don't have to "waste a lot of time". Crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) makes setting up and using a chrooted Ubuntu incredibly simple and straightforward, and there are other easy ways as well.