Personally I am more interested in the Chromebook/box/base market as that proves interesting to me. I like the concept of a stripped down OS that is paired up with basic hardware tailored for day to day simple tasks. Small SSD, decent enough CPU/GPU, just enough RAM, paired up with that lightweight OS it makes an interesting combo to me and it's what netbooks were supposed to be. For my car analogy it's a street legal go cart with a small car motor with some safety features built in and it doesn't even have an am/fm radio because it adds unnecessary weight.
Love it or hate it there is no denying Chromebooks are shaking up the market a bit and putting out some interesting things at a good price. An ARM based laptop that's actually usable, had you told me about that in 2011 I'd laugh at you. Tell me that it had a small SSD, encrypted your local data by default, no fans, good keyboard, small as a macbook air, and only cost $250 and I tell you to keep dreaming as such a thing won't exist anytime soon. Than 2012 hits and I own such a thing.
What's interesting is how small the internals for the Samsung Chromebook that came out in 2012 if you look at how small the internals actually are they take up very little room in comparison to the actual laptop. There is a lot of empty space in there, they could have easily doubled or tripled the battery capacity if they really wanted to in that thing. They had the room for it.
(Just reread this, sounded like I was rambling on about chromebooks and derailing it which I didn't mean to do. But a lot of the chromebooks/boxes are quite small especially the actual components and don't seem to draw a premium for the small size which is a plus.)
