Chromebook platform was slow at the beginning of its launch

According to foreign media reports, Chromebook platform introduced slow progress at the beginning, the market response tepid. However, consumers seem to be slowly beginning to realize the benefits of cloud-based systems, and Chromebooks are especially welcome on campus. Google this week in the earnings conference call announced that in the second quarter of this year Chromebook sales to schools for more than 1 million.

According to the latest Gartner data, the entire PC market, the last quarter of global sales of about 76 million. From this point of view, Chromebook made in the education market sales of 1 million fairly good results.

David Andrade, chief information officer for the Bridgeport Public School District, said in a blog post on the Google Business Pages that the area decided to source the Chromebook because of the low cost of ownership and ease of maintenance.

"We bought 3 Chromebooks with the money of a desktop PC and the school's small IT team no longer needed to spend a lot of time fixing and updating problems on old PCs," said Andrade.

He also noted that "we also saved time and money on providing computer support because Chromebooks are automatically updated, and from the beginning we purchased 4,000 Chromebooks for our secondary schools, and now we have one per student per classroom At the same time, we decided to start using the GoogleApps for Education education app so that every student has an email address, which we have not been able to do before, and we use Google Drive to store the student files so that they no longer Take up our internal file storage system - another way to save IT team time and money, so students can now communicate with their teachers when they're not in the classroom. "

Andrey said he purchased more Chromebooks after securing some funding, and now the total number of Chromebooks in the Bridgeport public school district is 9,000. Nor is he the only educator to see the economic value of these cloud-based PCs over Windows PCs or Macs.

Do people outside school see it like that? Not necessarily, especially since the price cut of Windows PC. But it is worth mentioning that, Chromebook models currently occupy the top five best-selling list of Amazon laptops three seats.

Translator: Le Bang

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