I fail to understand all things related to Daydream. It's just a toy, so far as I can tell.

The Google Clip would be brilliant as a dashcam, but that's not what it's designed to do. The best way to understand what it actually is: look at the high-end pro sports photographers. They'll set up "remote" cameras all over the place and trigger them with expensive radio contraptions. This is the same idea. It's a "remote" camera that decides for itself when to click the shutter. If it were $100, I'd probably get it to play with it. For $250, meh.

The fancy Chromebook market is something I've never entirely understood, but the justification for extra horsepower is that it can also run Android apps. Also, my daughter is currently on her third Chromebook after destroying the first two. Something a little better built might have survived.