I keep thinking about wanting to check out one of these Chromeboxes (or even a Chromebook) but every time I check the prices, I keep thinking for the same money or less I can build my own custom PC and have a much better PC and run Linux or Windows on it and have more options for apps. (Also, the idea of trusting my stuff to a flakey cloud just doesn’t appeal.) That CTL with 16GB of RAM and 128GB of storage probably cost $500US or so and for a little more money (probably about $700US) I built a tiny little PC with an AMD3400G (Intel I5 equivalent, but better graphics), 32GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. I discussed it here:
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