I would consider myself a techie. I do some web development, and have been working on creating games in Unity. Nothing too extreme but I definitely use my laptop for more than internet stuff. I also game on it a good amount.
I don't have the money or space for that unfortunately. I can definitely see why it would be helpful though.
I try to keep all my important data in the cloud as well. I need to figure out a larger cloud storage system though, as my 19GB of Google drive is reaching capacity.
I've used chromebooks, they certainly seem ideal for being an internet browsing laptop. The benefit of my surface pro was that I could take handwritten notes easily for my college courses.
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