A few months ago, around the time Googlebooks were announced, I became really interested in Chromebooks again, partly because I’d completely lost touch and partly because I heard good things about the new ARM chipsets, namely the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra. But Chromebooks are not a common thing in my neck of the woods. And, even then, there aren’t a lot of manufacturers that ship interesting hardware in this field. I’ve been seeing ARM laptops slowly take over the lower tiers of the Windows laptop market, but I was very curious about the current value proposition of either Googlebooks or vanilla...