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Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon
rtfa-troll writes "Amazon's latest table of the top selling laptops will be a surprise for many on Slashdot whose first reaction when we discussed this before was 'so what,' with pundits describing it as 'an enterprise contender.' Given the recent launch and huge advertising campaign, you might expect that the top selling consumer laptop would be based on Win8. If you read recent discussions about Microsoft's troubled new system you might expect a Mac to be leading, but Google's Chromebook topping the sales chart on a consumer site without any major advertising campaign is a major surprise. We've discussed before that apart from its web based ChromeOS, Chromebooks are also very fast running Ubuntu Linux and have several other distributions already ported."
To buy that thing, one has to order it via Amazon - and fact is that, even today, not many people know how to order stuffs from Amazon.
It's a self-selecting process.
Those who know how to buy stuffs from Amazon are more in tune with technology to begin with, and many of those who are more in tune with technology want to try their hand on something new.
What's new to that crowd?
They already have desktop PC, laptop PC, Android tablets, iPhone/iPad, smartphones of many kinds, so what is "new" for them, actually, are:
1. Windows8 phone
2. Chromebook
Windows8 doesn't really charm people that much - in fact, there so many negative "reviews" from the Net - and the logical "toy" for the technologically savvy crowd to buy is left with only one choice ---
Chromebook
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If I manage to setup hw accelerated video playing and Oracle's Java
Why would you ruin it like that with Java??