What is going on with Chromebooks?

To be upfront about it, I really like Chromebooks. But they are a weird beast. They’re a post-PC device from the pre-post-PC era. I class them as post-PC in Death of the PC, because they hit a good number of the attributes of a post-PC device. The most notable ones they hit are around their appliance-like and intimidation-free natures.

They’ve been rolling around the top of the bestseller lists on Amazon for ages now, which implies people are buying them. But you often don’t see people using t...