Up until recently, if you wanted a Chrome OS laptop, your choices were to either pay $1,300 for a top-of-the-line experience or to suffer with a poky and poorly built product in the $200 to $400 range.

The introduction of Intel’s Haswell-based processors in 2013 fixed part of the problem, giving us affordable Chromebooks with plenty of power — devices like Acer’s C720 Chromebook and Dell’s Chromebook 11. Then this year’s Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook brought in the first midrange option, with a never-before-seen level of build quality, display quality and versatility — and a price just under $500.

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