My Asus C100P was around $280 when it was released. It is now down to $230. The 4GB model specifically, because it is my daily driver and I do my dev work on it.

I do "actual computing" on it too, since it is has way more ram and disk than any of my cloud stuff.

These days you can find a first-gen Chromebook Pixel for about $300 or so:

https://swappa.com/buy/google-chromebook-pixel-1st-gen-lte-u...

If you don't mind that it's four years old at this point, it was by far the best Chromebook I ever used, and my girlfriend is still using it as her daily driver (I gave it to her because I thought it was too nice a piece of equipment to gather dust in a drawer).