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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Mikeb85 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @07:27PM (#9300572)
You can spin it all sorts of ways. Keep in mind the 'PC' market includes all those legacy Windows XP computers which are languishing in peoples homes, businesses, corporations, etc...

Chromebook sales are a much bigger part of current PC sales. And vendors do keep expanding their Chromebook lines. If it was a failure they wouldn't.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by millstone on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:58AM (#9301714)
The "PC market" refers to current sales. "Installed base" is the term for the metric that includes the languishing WinXP machines.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Mikeb85 on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @09:41AM (#9303413)
Ah yeah you're right. The 1% came from some guy extrapolating Samsung's sales of Chromebooks to mean the whole Chromebook market...
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by scholia on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:33AM (#9303857)
Some guy being a professional journalist who actually made some effort to analyze the numbers.

I appreciate from the downvotes above that some people prefer to believe what they want to believe ;-)

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