People that want a computer with a real OS instead of a browser window juggler.
I keep seeing references how the low end is using Chromebooks, but that seems to be an US phenomenon.
Here in Europe on the area where I live, I only ever seen Chromebooks on sale on a specific chain, and they are seldom there.
When they are, they always follow the pattern of being on sale with the usual Google price, people play with it, never being thrilled by it, the price slowly goes down every few weeks, it goes into shop "product of the day" offers, until eventually they get sold.
The market is the one of anyone that wants to use a tablet with keyboard, with a desktop experience when they need to.
Basically anyone that a few years ago would buy a netbook.
The market is the one of anyone that wants to use a tablet with keyboard, with a desktop experience when they need to.
I guess that makes sense, although I think we have a very different idea of what a "desktop experience" is.
Basically anyone that a few years ago would buy a netbook.
The conventional narrative is that tablets killed the eeepc/netbook. I didn't even know that this market still existed - I knew about Surface, but those start around the $900 mark.
I know that this is definitely the case in Canada. In the US, I've been told that Chromebooks are everywhere in schools. From working with my local school board here (I'm in Canada), no one thinks deploying Chromebooks or using Google services in general is legally viable because we would be putting student data on US servers where it wouldn't be protected by Canadian privacy laws.
We don't use Chromebooks, but we don't end up using win10 netbooks either - it ends up being a combination of ipads and windows desktop PCs in classrooms.
Here in Germany I've never seen them particularly cheap. Which is too bad, since I was looking into throwing Linux on one and use it as a "lighter and a lot less expensive to loose" web machine.
Good to know, if I end up in one of their stores for some reason I'll keep an eye out just in case. At least with a Chromebook you know that there are drivers somehow, not so sure with ultra-cheap Win10 devices.
I keep seeing references how the low end is using Chromebooks, but that seems to be an US phenomenon.
Here in Europe on the area where I live, I only ever seen Chromebooks on sale on a specific chain, and they are seldom there.
When they are, they always follow the pattern of being on sale with the usual Google price, people play with it, never being thrilled by it, the price slowly goes down every few weeks, it goes into shop "product of the day" offers, until eventually they get sold.
The market is the one of anyone that wants to use a tablet with keyboard, with a desktop experience when they need to.
Basically anyone that a few years ago would buy a netbook.