Chromebooks and netbooks
The best-selling laptop on Amazon? A Chromebook [1] ! Quoting “ Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux ” (by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for ZDNet): So, what, according to Amazon, in this winter of Windows 8 discontent has been the best selling laptop? It's Samsung's ARM-powered, Linux-based Chromebook. This coincides with no more netbooks being produced. Quoting “ Sayonara, netbooks: Asus (and the rest) won't make any more in 2013 ” (by Charles Arthur for Business Insider): … Asus, which kicked off the modern netbook category with its Eee PC in 2007, has announced that it won't make its Eee PC product after today, and that Acer doesn't plan to make any more … Asustek and Acer were the only two companies still making netbooks, with everyone else who had made them (including Samsung, HP and Dell) having shifted to tablets. Asustek and Acer were principally aiming at southeast Asia and South America - but of course those are no...