[chadillac]

Plot twist, even CR48s can run Arch and other light variants of Linux, with an i7 and 16GB of RAM, I have no doubt these will be capable as well.

Now, about that price point...

[sp332]

Heck I ran straight Ubuntu on mine, and Firefox was less janky than Chrome on ChromeOS at the time.

[gh02t]

I use the Asus Chromebox (small "desktop" ChromeOS machine) as an OpenELEC media center. It runs absolutely flawlessly, mostly because it's just a basic Intel Pentium system. From what I've heard, the ARM Chromebooks like the Samsung ones can be a bit trickier, but it can be done.