&gt;Apple&#x27;s unrelentingly expensive offerings<p>It&#x27;s really the relative expense of quality laptops more broadly.<p>Story. I forgot my laptop on a weeklong business trip last week. It actually made sense to pickup a Chromebook for the week. After all, it was only about 3x what a forgotten laptop charger would have cost.<p>Chromebooks aren&#x27;t a laptop replacement but they are very useful. I don&#x27;t know enough about component costs to know what a Chromebook+ which isn&#x27;t a Pixel would cost. However, I do see them as a complement to a laptop rather than a replacement. And, by historical standards, a MacBook Pro is very cheap.