Chromebooks may be doing better than numbers suggest

Web traffic generated by Google Chromebooks suggests that the low-priced laptops have failed to catch on with consumers, but those numbers may not tell the whole story about the laptop’s popularity.

Web traffic watcher NetMarketShare reports that during the first week of monitoring Chromebook activity on the Web, the clamshell devices barely appeared on the service’s radar.

Google Chromebook

During that period, only 0.02 percent of Web traffic came from Chromebooks. That suggests there aren’t a lot of the devices out there, and Google’s grand experiment with an always-on, always-connected laptop may be a bust.

What’s more, Chromebook’s numbers compared to a similar metric for the much-maligned Windows are an eye opener.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2035646/chromebooks-may-be-doing-better-than-numbers-suggest.html#tk.rss_all

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