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Chromebooks
1 The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O
conference in May 2011 and began shipping on June 15, 2011. Lenovo, Hewlett Packard and
Google itself entered the market in early 2013. In addition to laptop models, a desktop version,
called a Chromebox, was introduced in May 2012. In December 2013, Samsung launched a
Samsung Chromebook specifically for the Indian market that employed the company's Exynos 5
Dual core processor.
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Chromebooks
1 Critical reaction to the device was initially skeptical, with some
reviewers, such as then New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, unfavorably comparing the value proposition of Chromebooks
with that of more fully featured laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system
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Chromebooks
1 In October 2012, Simon Phipps, writing in InfoWorld, said, The
Chromebook line is probably the most successful Linux desktop/laptop computer we've seen to date. From
January to November 2013, 1.76 million Chromebooks were sold in
U.S. business-to-business channels.
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Chromebooks - Design
1 With limited offline capability and a fast boot time, Chromebooks are
primarily designed to be used connected to the Internet
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Chromebooks - Design
1 Support for many USB devices such as cameras, mice, external keyboards and
flash drives is included, utilizing a feature similar to plug-and-play on other operating
systems. Like the prototype Cr-48, Chromebooks have a specialized keyboard
complete with buttons for opening and controlling multiple browser windows, as
well as a Web search button which replaces the caps lock key (caps lock being activated
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Chromebooks - Design
1 An analysis of the Samsung Series 5 components by iFixit in June 2011 estimated a total cost of $334.32
representing US$322.12 in materials and US$12.20 in labor. With an initial retail price
of US$499.99 that also pays for shipping, marketing and research development and
retail margins, the profit margins on the Chromebooks are quite thin, requiring a large production run to make a profit.
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Chromebooks - Design
1 Chromebooks also come with a built-in local music player, a photo editor,
and a PDF and Microsoft Office document viewer that are functional
without internet access
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 His strategy for marketing Chromebooks centered on the total cost of ownership, which he claimed
could be dramatically reduced by lower maintenance, management
and security costs, even if hardware costs remain unchanged.
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 The first two commercially available Chromebooks, the Samsung Series 5 and the Acer Inc.|Acer AC700, were unveiled on May 11, 2011, at the Google I/O developer conference
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 Google's early marketing efforts relied primarily on hands-on
experience: giving away Samsung machines to 10 Cr-48 pilot program
participants along with the title Chromebook Guru and loaning
Chromebooks to passengers on some Virgin America flights.
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 Orlando does plan to continue to use the Chromebooks.
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 Google had placed nearly 27,000 Chromebooks in schools across 41
states, including one-on-one programs, which allocate a computer for every student, in South Carolina,
Illinois, and Iowa
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 While the two lowest cost Chromebooks emerged later in the
fall: the $249 Samsung Series 3 and the $199 Acer C7
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 Wong said that the company would consider marketing Chromebooks to other developed countries, as well as
to corporations
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 In April 2013, Intel said that its Mobile Internet device#Bay Trail platform (2013)|Bay Trail chips will be used in a series of
inexpensive touchscreen laptops primarily running Google's Android operating
system. The move would create a direct competitor to Chromebooks (as well as
Windows 8 laptops) using Google's other operating system. A year later, the
product category had not gained traction.
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Chromebooks - Sales and marketing
1 During the first 11 months of 2013, 1.76 million Chromebooks sold in the United States, representing 21% of the U.S. commercial business-to-
business laptop market. During the same period in 2012, Chromebooks
sold 400,000 units and had a negligible market share.
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Chromebooks - Chromebox
1 Chromeboxes are the desktop variants of Chromebooks. Classed as small form-factor PCs, the devices typically feature a power
switch and a set of ports: local area network, USB, DVI-D, DisplayPort, and
audio. As with Chromebooks, Chromeboxes employ solid-state memory and support Web applications, but require an external
Computer monitor|monitor, Computer keyboard|keyboard, and pointing device.
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Chromebooks - Alternate operating systems
1 Some Chromebooks include SeaBIOS, which can be turned on to install
arbitrary Linux distributions, though this requires the use of developer
mode.[http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?
page=articleitem=acer_c720_linux Acer C720 Chromebook Delivers Fast
Ubuntu Performance]
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