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Re:$149 Chromebooks by glenstein on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:00PM (#9299036)
I was going to post this if somebody else didn't. To add one important detail: the HP Stream you linked doesn't just exist as a proof of concept or whatever, which would be one thing, but it's currently outselling all the Chromebooks (and every other laptop for that matter) on Amazon.

Chromebooks dominated in 2014, but they've been bumped and I'm not sure they'll ever be back at the top. Rather than a sea change, it looks like Google was just ahead of its competitors for a year, and now that year has come and gone.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by pjmlp on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:52PM (#9299802)
Actually that was a USA only phenomenon, I never saw Chromebooks live in Europe.

Here in Germany, some chain stores do have a few of them at their little corner being ignored by everyone.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by tdkl on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @06:03PM (#9300219)
It's also perhaps that Germans are vary before an OS which is an internet machine and comes from a company where main revenue is ad business.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Nursie on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @06:16PM (#9300280)
Pretty sure Chromebooks dominated amazon.co.uk for a while too...
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by aikah on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:17AM (#9302504)
> Pretty sure Chromebooks dominated amazon.co.uk for a while too...

Pretty sure it didn't.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Nursie on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:18PM (#9305657)
I wasn't 100% so I had a quick look. Here's a blog post from 2012 with the Samsung/ARM Chromebook shown as the top seller in laptops in the UK (you have to scroll right down to the bottom).

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/chromebooks-best-...

You're right though, it wasn't 2014, it was 2012.

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