I find it ironic that you’re talking about the cost of things, and that somehow the laptop with the premium operating system that costs money and requires more expensive hardware due to being bloated is somehow more inexpensive in your country than a Chromebook or a tablet.
Chromebooks and tablets are mostly useless as general computing devices.
Chromebooks only got a market chance thanks to US school system, and tablets, naturally Android ones that we're talking about here, are mostly consuming devices.
Hence why wealthy folks get Apple, they aren't getting Chromebooks and tablets either, when money is no concern.
By the way, you can buy new PC hardware below one month salary, that will get extended as long as possible.
what do you think people are doing with their computers that they cannot do with a tablet or Chromebook?
Like buddy, I’m not trying to argue with you here - clearly we live in different societies with different purchasing demographics. General computing devices for me and for you are completely different things than they would be for my mother or anyone else in the general population.
For the overwhelming majority of people, they may own a computer to file taxes to watch content and to play non-intensive little games (not the AAA spectacle the most gamers player).
They do not need a compiler, they usually do not need Microsoft Word, and they do not need to install random executables from the Internet.
What do you think they need to do that cannot be served by a tablet?
Schools are largely using chromos and chromebooks today (in my understanding across the countries where I have seen students in the last 8 years; so: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and The UK).
Since having access to a web browser is significantly easier than Microsoft.
Actually, it was the same playbook Microsoft had in the 90s.
