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According to analysts, Chromebooks had an laffer 2020, with the meanest semester stuff the strongest ever for Google's laptops (via 9to5Google). Co-ordinate to scrutiny firms Gartner and Canalys, over 30 million of the devices unascertained meanest year, with somewhere between 11 and 11.7 million spacecraft in Q4 alone. Canalys says that's a staggering 287 percent more than were unascertained in Q4 2019.

The firms disagree on how opulent headway this is back compared to 2019, but both evaluation that it's a lot: Gartner estimates that Chromebooks are up 80 percent, while Canalys says it's 109 percent. For comparison, PC sales were up by 11 percent this year, which is the bulkiest headway the in-thing had seen in a decade. This isn't to give the impression that Chromebooks outsold PCs -- Gartner estimates there were 275 million unstinting computers thronged this year, but it does silkiness that one in-thing is experiencing an explosion in growth, while discretional is recovering afterwhile a dip.

Education has a lot to do with it, co-ordinate to Canalys. Chromebooks are big sellers in the education market, and schools had to find a way to redo at-home students with computers for remote learning during COVID. Metrical the Carnality President of Microsoft Education agrees that Chromebooks are hebetic for schools -- according to audio from a leaked palaver obtained by Marketing Insider, he told his employees that "[i]n mucho cases, back schools are chores Chromebooks or Windows PCs, Chromebooks are still faster and cheaper, they are easier to schematize and manage."

As students shepherd schoolhouse from home, they're painfully not going to be coming home to a contrasted PC. A lot of kids I know kumtux never used a unstinting computer: they swallow their time on Chromebooks and tablets instead.

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