Google’s Chromebooks fastest growing PC market

[froggyboy604]

According to data from market research firm NPD Group, the low-cost computers have captured between 20% and 25% of the sub-$300 laptop market in U.S. in the past eight months. The firm noted that Chromebooks are now the fastest growing segment of the PC market based on price, Bloomberg reported.

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People love buying cheap laptops from big brands like Google since Google will not run off with your money if your Chromebook breaks like some laptop brands which make it hard for you to return broken laptops.

A lot of people these days just mostly use a web browser to watch Netflix on Netflix.com,write  e-mail, read the news, and go on social networks, so a cheap Google Chromebook is good enough.

I bet if Google made a ChromeOS tablet with a slideout, or detachable keyboard, more people will switch to Chrome OS.

I wonder would the Raspberry Pi will be the fastest growing desktop computer since it only cost $25 for the cheapest Pi, and it has everything the average user need to go online, and do their daily tasks like typing, basic image editing, and more.

 

[Nuke]

Intriguing; also, the Pi isn't produced by a huge conglomerate, like Google, so I would doubt its ascent to mass popularity.

 

[froggyboy604]

I read that Google donated money while the Pi foundation a bunch of Pi compurers to a Ireland school to help support computer science according to http://bgr.com/2013/05/31/google-raspberry-pi-donate-ireland/

Google and Raspberry Pi donate to ‘schools of the future’ in Ireland

Google is always looking to push technology forward and in its latest effort has donated €1.5 million, roughly $1.95 million, to Trinity College in Dublin.

Raspberry Pi Foundation will be providing more than 1,000 Raspberry Pi computers to participating students and teachers to make their coding journey even easier.

The Pi maybe popular in the Third World, and schools which teach introductory coding and markup languages like javascript, java, php, html, css, etc since the Pi is cheaper to buy, and also small and power efficient enough to use as the computer for tiny robots.