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From : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Sales_and_marketing

"In 2020, Chromebooks outsold Apple Macs for the first time by taking market share from laptops running Microsoft Windows. This rise is attributed to the platform's success in the education market.[79][80][81]"

Hmm.

This is interesting. Searches give you different numbers.

But it looks like the number of Chromebooks sold each year is comparable, but probably lower than the number of Macs.

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2020 was a special time where every child in America was given a Chromebook so they could do school from home.

They've become the browser-centric portal for the education market which is the only thing a lot of people need/want. (I probably prefer that to defaulting to tablets/smartphones.)

At the same time, as far as I can tell, Chromebooks are pretty much all K-12 focused devices at this point. Which is fine. But I'd potentially buy something higher-end if it were available. But it isn't.

I buy and re-image old chromebooks to use for terminals for paperwork at a few places I volunteer, they're like $50 and easy to reimage... and nice for doing paperwork.

Lenovo doesn't have any current Thinkpad Chromebooks, but they had at least a few models in the past. Those qualified for at least pretty nice, depending on which CPU you optioned. If you picked a Chromebook model that used mainstream CPUs (ex Intel Core), chances were good that they'd have a SKU with a higher tier cpu (i5/i7), even if the case and the screen were nothing special. The atom and arm based ones didn't really have a high tier cpu to consider.

Of course, having found and incubated a useful niche, Google has canceled Chrome OS, so Chromebook offerings are going to be trickier to find.

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