iT Rumors: Chromebook

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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dell Chromebook 11 will be available in January.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chromebooks grabbed about one-fifth of the commercial laptop market in 2013, up from virtually nothing the year before, according to NPD Group. On the flip side, Windows device sales, with the exception of tablets, have been "tepid" this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sales of Google Chrome OS-based laptops accounted for 21 percent of all notebook salesthrough commercial channels year to date through November 2013, the largest share increase across the various product segments, NPD said in a report this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that isn't proof enough of Chromebooks' rise in popularity, Amazon said Thursday that among laptops, the Samsung Chromebook, Asus Transformer Book, and Acer Chromebook were"holiday best sellers."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above comes on the heels of a forecast earlier in the month showing Chromebooks taking about five percent of total laptop salesin 2014. All of this isn't good news Windows PC sales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Tepid Windows PC sales allowed brands with a focus on alternative form factors or operating systems, like Apple and Samsung, to capture significant share of a market traditionally dominated by Windows devices," said Stephen Baker, an NPD analyst, in a statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Traditional PC makers are responding by bringing out new Chromebook models. Dell, for instance, will offer its first Chromebook in January for the educational market, where Chromebooks have been particularly popular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world's largest PC maker, HP, is also putting more emphasis on Google's Chrome OS and<a href="http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/" section="luke_topic" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</a>. HP sells both the Chromebook 14 and the Chromebook 11. Note: HP is selling its Chromebook 11 again after recalling chargers back in November.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And count <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/" section="luke_topic" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android tablets</a> -- which grew 160 percent -- among the big sellers too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chromebooks and Android tablets collectively had the biggest impact on sales growth, "with 1.76 million units going through the channel from January through November of this year, compared to just 400,000 units in 2012," NPD said.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Via:<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57616317-94/chromebooks-surge-at-business-in-2013-researcher-says/"> CNET</a></span></i></div>

Chromebooks surge at business in 2013, researcher says

The Dell Chromebook 11 will be available in January. (Credit: Dell) Chromebooks grabbed about one-fifth of the commercial laptop market...

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs__haQNd4pVMniFJMp6Ed7bhGyG9pzbjMfo836suOejIvi3LzxvplJrPZLR1EzgbVbtEhHVKrtNnChaFXiK1CFGTvB7J5Pu8Siynx7otmytTrAAfChyphenhyphend5bQ_zpusc5AnhU-tYaxsnyuAU/s1600/img_0403.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs__haQNd4pVMniFJMp6Ed7bhGyG9pzbjMfo836suOejIvi3LzxvplJrPZLR1EzgbVbtEhHVKrtNnChaFXiK1CFGTvB7J5Pu8Siynx7otmytTrAAfChyphenhyphend5bQ_zpusc5AnhU-tYaxsnyuAU/s320/img_0403.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HP Chromebook 11</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A month after HP and Google put the kibosh on Chromebook 11 sales due to overheating chargers, and the laptop is now available with a brand new power adapter. According to<em> <a href="http://9to5google.com/2013/12/19/after-recall-google-releases-updated-hp-chromebook-11-with-newly-designed-power-adapter/" style="text-decoration: none;">9to5Google</a></em>, it looks like a smaller version of the one for thePixel except it has a micro-USB tip instead. If you already have a Chromebook 11, do remember that you should be sending yours back in exchange for a new one due to a company recall issued a couple days ago. But if you haven't already pulled the trigger, now is definitely a safer time to do so for one of the best Chromebooks we've seen so far.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Image credit: <a href="http://9to5google.com/2013/12/19/after-recall-google-releases-updated-hp-chromebook-11-with-newly-designed-power-adapter/" style="text-decoration: none;">9to5Google</a>]</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://9to5google.com/2013/12/19/after-recall-google-releases-updated-hp-chromebook-11-with-newly-designed-power-adapter/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">9to5Google</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/19/hp-chromebook-11-new-charger/?ncid=rss_truncated">Engadget</a></span></div>

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HP Chromebook 11 A month after HP and Google put the kibosh on Chromebook 11 sales due to overheating chargers, and the laptop is now availa...

Chromebooks surge at business in 2013, researcher says

HP Chromebook 11 now ships with an all-new charger after official recall

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