The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. An explanation could be due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to work from home and distance learning. Other form factors include Chromebox desktops, an all-in-one' called a Chromebase, a stick PC called a Chromebit and Chomebook tablets.Ĭhromebooks outsold Apple Macs worldwide for the year 2020, the Apple Mac market share grew too, both grew at the expense of Microsoft Windows losing global market share. The first Chromebooks shipped on June 15, 2011. Google Play video content is available offline using the Google Play Movies & TV extension with the Chrome browser. Ĭhromebooks can work offline, applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Keep, and Google Drive synchronize data when reconnecting to the Internet. All supported apps can be installed and launched alongside each other. All Chromebooks made since 2018, and some earlier can run full-fledged Linux apps.

Chromebooks are used to perform a variety of tasks using the Google Chrome browser and since 2017 can also run Android apps. Wikipedia on a Samsung Series 3 ChromebookĪ Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a laptop or tablet running the Linux-based Chrome OS as its operating system.