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From when I used Samsung Galaxy S[N]; I cannot even imagine the amount of non-removable crapware this laptop will have.

If you want to fiddle with Android on a laptop, try RemixOS; I used it for a while in a virtual machine when my phone broke and it's awesome.

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Chromebooks have generally been okay when it comes to bloatware (OEMs seemingly aren't allowed to do more than pre-install easily-removable (Chrome) extensions, and even that doesn't seem to be very common). Maybe that's going to change now that this is closer to an Android device.

What about the google crapware, does it remove that too?

You mean Chrome, a calculator, a camera app, and a file explorer? Those are pretty much the only apps preinstalled on a Chromebook.

I was thinking more of the android ones, gmail, google+, google maps, play music, play movies, play books, play newsstand, play games, google drive, youtube, hangouts, calendar, google docs.

All installed and unremoveable on my phone even though mail and maps are the only ones I use.

From my experience with an Acer R11 chromebook, there are no pre-installed android apps. You have to explicitly install them from the play store.

Given that a chromebook has pretty good integration with GSuite apps via the web, I am guessing most folks will not need the android versions.

There is no crapware. They comes with the google play store, the web browser, file browser. That's about it.

They mention exactly two third-party apps installed:

https://news.samsung.com/us/2017+ces+Samsung+Chromebook+Plus...

I can assure you the Galaxy S didn't mention all the preinstalled s* it had.

There have already been many samsung chrome books, I was using mine this morning, and it had no crapware.

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