Google laptop rates a victory lap - Business - The Boston Globe

Excerpt from a Hiawatha Bray Chromebook market snapshot

"The versatility of the C720 and other recent Chromebooks has made them a legitimate alternative to the standard laptop. That might explain why, as of yesterday, four of the 10 best-selling laptops at Amazon.com were Chromebooks. Market analyst Gartner Inc. said that the devices made up 5 percent of the PC market in the first quarter of 2013, compared with just 1 percent a year earlier. It’s still just a sliver of the pie, but it’s a growing sliver, at a time when sales of other PC types are falling fast."

Google laptop rates a victory lap - Business - The Boston Globe