Used mostly by schools, they are pretty close to a zero-admin laptop that generally only runs chrome. So students can see slides, do homework, access the web,

Used mostly by schools, they are pretty close to a zero-admin laptop that generally only runs chrome. So students can see slides, do homework, access the web, access shared spreadsheets/documents, etc. It's all tied to your google account, and the school district can literally get by with zero admins. If a student drops one in a pool overnight, they can get a new laptop, login, and all their work is already there. They are rather cheap, I bought my kid one for $180, like 7 years ago and it's still going. The intro instructions showed that if you poured a soda into the keyboard shake it out a few times and it should be fine. In highschool they handed my kid a laptop on the first day, quite a bit nicer than the 7 year old laptop, and of course quite familiar. I've seen minimal market penetration outside of education. It is nice that they upstream patches for linux and to be called a chromebook they have to support a dev mode where you can install your own OS. So you can get a laptop, without paying the Microsoft tax.