Google may gun for whatever it wants to, but sales of Chromebooks have been really dismal so far, and I seriously doubt the Chromebox is going to be much different.
>but it may soon be the cheap laptop the IT guys at your work start issuing to employees who don't need the heavy lifting power of a mac or windows machine...
The Chromebook isn't much cheaper than equivalent laptops with which you can access Google apps as well as run other programs.
I would consider this the "test" phase for Google. They are testing the waters, getting feedback, and adding as needed. Agile development applied to hardware - and (I hope) soon coming to Motorola.
>but it may soon be the cheap laptop the IT guys at your work start issuing to employees who don't need the heavy lifting power of a mac or windows machine...
The Chromebook isn't much cheaper than equivalent laptops with which you can access Google apps as well as run other programs.