I dunno about the Chromebox. I can't see many of my friends setting up a monitor, mouse and keyboard for a computer that only runs Chrome OS.
It's interesting, though.
It's interesting, though.
Also, I could be great for schools for the same reason or for some office workers that just need email and Google Docs.
I think this fits with that other item on Hacker News today about targeting the right user. In this case, for a non power user, this has great potential.
They really need to get the cost of the Chrome devices way down from where they are.
I agree that the cost of Chrome devices needs to be lower, but they need to be priced closer to midrange Android tablets (~250-300$) than Raspberry Pis.
That said, it would be curious to see what kind of processor ends up being optimal for HTML5 content. It's not completely inconceivable that architectures will end up being tuned for JS execution.