Yea, I would not attempt a chromebook, however, you could use some form of linux or something like that, assuming you're keen enough to stumble through that new OS (which is free!). It would save a lot of money, especially compared to just paying for apple's intel offerings. Trust me, you don't just want a "ticket to ride" if you're going to use this for lots of DAW work in the future. You want something with enough power/disk I/O and memory to last into the next set of DAW softwares and upgrades.
If you're a fan of the mac-os or have enough money to burn, then by all means, do so, but given that you're entertaining chromebooks, I doubt you've got a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool of money to throw around. I just like to offer options when mac fans come through "imploring" others to do what they did. I've got a few friends who wasted money on a mac because someone they trusted told them that's what they should get. Later on, it turned out they either didn't like how the OS worked, or couldn't do some of the things they wanted because they didn't have a windows based OS, where the huge vast majority of software still sits, especially for games and office type stuff.