Chromebook sales skyrocket! Watch out Microsoft!

Chromebook shipment reaches 2.1 million, making dent in Windows PC market: Study

Market Research Shows Chromebooks Doing Very Well Indeed

As 2014 began, several prominent analysts were taking aim at recent media reports that have allegedly miscast how well Chromebooks--portable computers based on Google's Chrome OS platform--are doing in sales terms. "There has been a ton of misreporting as many lazy reporters and bloggers have characterized this as all sales, which it wasn't, or even consumer sales, which it most assuredly was not," Stephen Baker of the NPD Group,

Intel reveals Braswell chip for Chromebooks

The second day of IDF Shenzhen conference in China saw the unveiling of a new processor dubbed ‘Braswell’ by Intel; other announcements included a 64-bit Android kernel and the QVOD media box.

Chromebook adoption gains traction

An estimated 2.1 million Chromebooks shipped in 2013 with nearly 89% of total shipments reaching North America, according to market intelligence firm ABI Research. As Chromebook shipments expand globally, ABI Research forecasts an increase of CAGR 28% to 11 million in 2019.

Get an Acer C720 Chromebook for $99

That's just one possible deal you can get from Best Buy when you trade in your old Windows XP system, which is good for a $100 credit.

Best Buy offering $100 credit to those who trade in Windows XP computers