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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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