What is Chromebook? It's a low-powered, cloud-connected device that runs its software applications from the cloud. In other words, a client terminal, though not nearly as dumb, since it does have some local storage and built-in software (the OS).
It just could be the perfect product for your aging parents that are wary of computers, or kids that seem to act as magnets for malware, as Chrome (extremely similar to the Chrome browser) has a sandbox making it vastly more difficult than any other OS to break in and steal data. Drawbacks to the cloud model: data can be, and often is, stolen online from less than secure internet services / sites. But then again, if you're already browsing and buying off the internet, the threat is no less or more than a cloud-based client.
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