Chromebooks that run on Google services are already the default 1:1 device in schools. They're cheap, they take a beating and have good battery life.

Same here. They’re subsidized by taking kids’ privacy.

I'd assume this opens up 'Googlebooks' to compete with the GPU/M Series Premium laptops so schools can provide them to teach things like Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD Design, anything that chromebooks couldn't do, right?

The performance of the machine offered at schools seems to get just a little worse every year too... like one of these days they won't have to worry about kids playing Krunker in class because they won't be able to.

My kids schools all use ipads

It would be so much better for the student's IT proficiencies if the were some ordinary Linux computers instead. Preferably with limited central managment.

The Chromebooks are probably cheaper than the hardware itself could be, but that's a good demonstration of the issue.