With a low resolution 720p screen and only 2GB of RAM and less than 10 hours of battery life. You can buy a similarly equipped Windows laptop for $199 or less, or with a more usable 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage for 30 bucks more. Of course there are both lower end Chromebooks and Windows laptops, but they're really beside the point to what's being discussed.
Windows is much slower on such a low spec device than ChromeOS. And if you install anything on your Windows device, god help your loading times.
Most people aren't in advertising. It is a surprising use of a common word. I still twitch when I hear 'copy' used in the content sense.