Steve is a deeply bad influence. He started the trend, which prompted me to order my own Chromebook (although I had been waiting to pull the trigger for several weeks). Slowly this US$250 MacBook-wannabe has been infiltrating TUAW households.
It's great for kids. It's a unit you don't mind taking on non-work trips. It's undemanding.
But it's not quite the MacBook experience, especially for our Apple-trained fingers. The problem is that we want the Control key next to the space bar, not waaaaaay off to the left.
Solution? A simple Chromebook option, similar to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > M