Why are Chromebooks still a thing?

Re:Why are Chromebooks still a thing? by nostromo on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:50PM (#6580966)

We live in a bubble. Among my friends Mac has 90% computer marketshare and the iPhone has probably 75%. But we know empirically that outside of the high-tech fat-wallet echo chamber these numbers are completely different.

I imagine that is where the Chromebooks are going as well: outside of the bubble. We know people are buying them since they are always in the top-selling laptops category on Amazon.

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Re:Why are Chromebooks still a thing? by orf on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:52PM (#6580988)

I'm a student in the UK, a friend of mine told me that she switched to using a Chromebook recently and hardly ever uses her laptop anymore. Shes not a "computer person" by any means so they are obviously having an effect.

She also loves it.

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Re:Why are Chromebooks still a thing? by keithpeter on Sunday October 20, 2013 @03:00PM (#6581026)

And having had to sort out student laptops so as to be able to recover College work (backups?), it isn't a bad platform for many people. Local Tesco extra sells quite a few of the cheaper Sanyo and Acer ones apparently. (UK based)

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Re:Why are Chromebooks still a thing? by maaarghk on Sunday October 20, 2013 @03:25PM (#6581128)

Samsung - see my comment :D

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Re:Why are Chromebooks still a thing? by leokun on Sunday October 20, 2013 @03:23PM (#6581118)

Not only is it always in the top selling laptops category on Amazon, it is the only laptop that appears on the first page for me on the general computers category:

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories/zgb...

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Re:Why are Chromebooks still a thing? by cliveowen on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:52PM (#6580983)

All true, but frankly I shudder every time I see someone with a Windows PC. They just struggle with it, it's painful.

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