>assumed
I assumed it would be a piece of crippleware when I bought the first one as a throwaway. Other than a now short battery span (I kept it plugged in. too lazy to bother.) it has taken everything I've thrown at it. I don't, however, run anything that I'd consider heavy-duty, cpu-intensive. Still, my tampermonkey scripts running arrays of filter keywords on top of known-to-be-a-hog Chrome browser works ok with a second or two lag during rendering of ajax-ridden multiple news feeds. There have been plenty of times that I thought that "this will *surely* choke this machine" and it just didn't. At just $50-ish more than buying a copy of Win10, it's hard to justify anything else.
>app ecosystem than Chromebooks. Wrong?
I'm a desktop man, what are these 'apps' you speak of, infidel?! hhh
I mostly live in a chrome extensions world now. Maybe a few .exe's like DimScreen. So far, if it'll run on a big Win10 desktop, it'll run on my walknbook.