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Re: Chromebooks on the rise

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On Tue, 20 May 2014 10:36:52 +0000
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> > 
> > If this is true then why do I see about 50 / 50 Apple and PC laptops?  I
> > have never seen a chromebook in the wild.
> > 
> > Anyway don't feel bad - in about 2001 I paid over $3000 for a PowerBook G4.
> >  It was my only computer until 2008.  Still works great, too.
> 
> 
> A couple months ago I would've agreed with you.  But suddenly I'm
> starting to see them around.  Several friends have bought one and one
> colleague bought one thinking he'd gotten a great deal on a Win
> laptop.  He was disappointed his chromebook wouldn't run Microsoft
> Office.  Then a couple of weeks later he discovered he didn't even need
> Microsoft office - Google docs and the web were all he needed.  Wish I
> could say "boo ya Balmer" like in the good old days.  Taunting Satya
> isn't nearly as much fun.


Interesting followup at the Register today:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2014/05/20/chromebooks_first_quarter_2014_context/?_ga=1.126211339.703641510.1358243142

So, only 40,000 chromebooks sold in the UK, even fewer elsewhere in
Europe, but 2.1 million sold in the USA over 2013.  

(PS: my G4 Powerbook - one of the best laptop keyboards I've ever had -
was running fine from 2004-2013 but was destroyed when it fell to the
floor and smashed.  Boy did I feel bad; that was a nice little laptop
whose only flaw was the PPC architecture that meant I no longer had a
flash player plug in, a flaw I scarcely cared about in any way.)

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Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-14 09:53 +0000
  Re: Chromebooks on the rise Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-19 21:36 +0000
    Re: Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-20 10:36 +0000
      Re: Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-21 13:11 +0000
        Re: Chromebooks on the rise Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-22 15:08 -0700
          Re: Chromebooks on the rise RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-23 22:23 +0000

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