Slow down a minute. Someone find me a Windows laptop for $300 that has an IPS screen, speakers embedded into the keyboard, totally silent running, a decent keyboard and trackpad, that boots in 7 seconds and resumes instantly. Plus, it's fast people. Anything running Windows 8 with some crap mechanical hard drive is going to feel like a slug compared to this.
Someone find a tablet that comes even close to those specs with a keyboard for under $300.
Not going to happen either way.
Closest competitors? Asus T100 @ $350. That's $70 more with identical specs and worse screen.
Surface RT? Looking at minimum $450+keyboard.
$300 10" Android tablets? Junk and not good for productivity.
Only 16GB of storage? That's more than the 32 GB Surface RT has left over after Win 8 is installed. What do you need more for? I am currently using less than 2 GB on my Chromebook. There's no programs to install. Any other content is stored on the 100GB of free drive storage.
What does the average user do on the computer that the Chromebook doesent?
Web browser? Check.
Word processor? Check.
Basic photo editing? Check.
Music Player? Check.
Gaming? Browser based, but who is really gaming on a $300 11" laptop?
Also, don't mention the line about "You can't do anything offline" because you can. Docs and many other apps are available for offline use.
No antivirus, no malware, no program updates. Did I mention it's fast? It will never slow down and will always have the latest software.
To the average household consumer, this thing is a steal. It does everything they need fast like they are used to on their tablets and phones.
"But But it doesn't have Office!!!!!" No one really needs it. Google Docs has 90% of the functionality, and there is also the Microsoft Office Web apps if you don't like that. If you are doing something incredibly technical, you probably aren't going to be buying a $280 notebook.