One of my favorite models from last year, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet, sells for less than $300. While premium models start at around $500, you can find excellent options for everyday use for $200 to $300. Price is one of the big things that makes Chromebooks so attractive. Lenovo's Chromebook Duet is part pen-enabled tablet, part laptop. It's basically this combination and some other key Chrome OS features (I'll get to those in a sec) that make Chromebooks an easier recommendation than they were even just a few years ago. If you can't find a web app to meet your needs, all modern Chromebooks can run Android apps, too, from the Google Play store. Web apps are essentially websites that function like downloadable mobile apps and Google has a web store full of them. So many things, especially when it comes to productivity tasks like word processing and spreadsheets, can happen in a browser or with a web app.
