Chromebooks are now mainstream, ramping up sales

[Darth Tigris]

dallas said:

Darth Tigris said:

NiKKoM said:
I wonder how big the sub $300 dollar laptop segment is.. seeing that IDC and Gartner said today that the low budget pc market is being demolished and replaced by Tablets..

You are making too much sense.

Au contraire, sir. 

Chromebooks are expected to rise in sales, dramatically, according to several accounts.

http://www.benzinga.com/news/13/07/3756736/chromebook-shipments-could-rise-200-in-2013-goog

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57593884-94/microsoft-beware-google-chromebooks-could-surge/

For whatever reason, the tech media is just high on Google.  Everything is on the rise and will continue that way (repeated use of the word "could" for instance).  I recall Google TV even getting that same treatment until it failed and they just stopped talking about it instead of bringing its failure up every 3 days.

So no, it doesn't make sense for a segment of the market to be so doomed from one perspective (the MS one where the PC market is dying and being replaced by tablets running iOS and Android) and on the rise from another (Chromebook sales rising signficantly and threatening that same doomed market).