Want the best of all Chromebooks? Then get Google's Pixelbook[1].
Now, I've liked Chromebooks since the experimental Cr-48[2] rolled out in late 2010. And, when Google released its first high-end Chromebook, 2013's Pixel[3], I was sold. I slowly but surely put away my Linux-powered Lenovo ThinkPads and started replacing them with Google's high-end Chromebooks. Why? Because they're better than any other laptop out there.
What's that? You can't do as much with a Chromebook that you can do with, say, a MacBook Pro 13[4] or a Lenovo Yoga 920[5]. Oh please!
Yes, you need the internet to get the most from a Chromebook, but tell me, when was the last time you did any serious work with macOS or Windows without an internet connection? That's right. Sometime in the 2000s. Sure, if you're doing video editing, you need a powerful PC. But for most of us, our work lives and dies with the internet.
Besides, as my tech buddy Mike Elgan points out, today's high-end Chromebooks "run more apps without dual- or multi-booting than any other computing platform. Chromebooks can run apps from Android, Linux, and Windows concurrently[6] in the same session."
He's not whistling Dixie. I've done it myself.
Newer Chromebooks have long been able to run Android apps[7]. With the help of CodeWeaver[8]'s CrossOver[9] you can run Windows programs on a Chromebook[10]. If that doesn't suit you, you can also now run Office 365 natively on some Chromebooks[11]. And, last but not least, Google is bringing Debian Linux natively to Chromebooks with Project Crostini[12]. The last