Wife might be right
I think you're wife might be right after all. Chromebooks are an excellent laptop choice for many people ... and they definitely are for content creation. That's why schools have been adopting them in preference to iPads. You can create GBs of documents, spreadsheets ... you can do (some) editing of photos and even video. You just will be using different tools than you may have used on Windows or Macs. And you will probably work using the Cloud, rather than locally.
My wife liked the blue color of an HP Chromebook, and she's been very happy with it. Email, browsing the web, writing short pieces. It boots fast and requires little maintenance. The technical questions are easily solved.
Specialized applications may not work on the Chromebook, but I've been pleasantly surprised how much of my work I can do on it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
