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by samuel 5655 days ago
But, How are they going to reach that price point? Specially since they are not going to produce them, and at least this model is pretty ordinary hardware(runs an Atom, not an ARM CPU). And, why manufacturers would want to canibalize their already tight margins on netbooks?

Besides, most people I know, would pay 100$ for the ability of running a "real" OS.

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'most people you know' aren't really ChromeOS's target market.
So it must be really tiny. Seriously, this thing is doomed unless gets really, really cheap, and I don't think how it could be.
Because it needs 3G connectivity to be usefull. The people charging you $40/month (really $100) for a 3year contract will be happy to subsidize a $200 unit