It might make a fair to middling HTPC if it can be hacked to connect to more storage via SMB. Otherwise, Chrome OS is terrible. No, I DON'T want to give personal information to Google (or any other big pig corp) by default: I want to store and work locally. Nor do I want to stream all video from "ze clouuuds" eating bandwidth.

Wonder if it can run a less gimped distribution of Linux than ChromeOS. I know many if not all Chromebooks can run Ubuntu. It looks promising, but I'd rather have an Intel NUC or similar.