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Why even bother when you’re just giving Google money for reselling hardware they didn’t manufacture. Just buy a decent brand basic spec system. Personally I’ve always stuck with ASUS for my new stuff, and for older hardware I’ve been extremely happy with Toshiba laptops. Get a Toshiba Tecra from ten years ago and put Linux on it; it will outperform one of these new Google units.
Because android means ARM, and I want there to be more mobile ARM devices that can run regular ol' Linux. Currently there aren't very many of those that aren't either Apple (and therefore mostly useless because Apple tries hard to make sure Linux doesn't run very well on their hardware) or otherwise pretty expensive. Who knows, maybe these turn out to be good low cost ARM Linux machines. Though I won't be holding my breath.
I miss the days when it also meant x86 and MIPS.