Assessing the Chromebook Threat

Chromebooks are a joke, but they benefit from good timing

On the face of things, Google's Chromebook initiative is a laughable attempt to turn a web browser into an operating system that runs on mostly lackluster hardware. But Chromebooks are starting to eat into the bottom of the market much as netbooks did before, and for the same reasons: They offer "good enough" functionality for the basic computing needs of the masses, and at bargain basement prices. Do these devices constitute a legitimate threat to Windows?

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