What rubbish. I am old enough to re call when "the street" was worth the time. But that is a long time ago. These days its just bs click bait and a waste of time.

What a joke article. It reads like the death of Windows is coming because HP is selling a Chrome book. Did they stop selling Windows too? I don't think so...This will be the death of Windows like when Dell started selling Ubuntu systems.

Dell is firmly in Microsoft's claw. Their Linux systems were well hidden.

First of all extrapolating what happened with Acer and applying it to a company of HPs size is a bit of a stretch. Do you comprehend how many $300 Chrome books they would need to sell to move their needle 15%? Let me remind you that their sales figure is $120 billion a year. Second, until those companies also stop selling Microsoft products, then my personal viewpoint is that Windows will continue to outsell Chrome by astronomical margins. So the Death of Microsoft?? Not by a long shot.

smart for MS to buy into dell financing on this but distribution way too small for Chrome on all models, only 50,000 units isnt worth a 2nd look.

why not 1 billion or 10 billion then, maybe apple will just give up to acer because they are so great n innovative

50,000 to 50million units is a fallacy

Yep, and Chrome is a glorified browser masquerading as an operating system. Oh, please I'm going to was $200-300 to connect to the internet to use Google's apps and docs. Maybe MS should bring out Windows IE and all it does is run IE and nothingelse.

LOL yes put Acer out of business with a $198 netbook

it means undercut them genius

assumptions assumption nice try on proving your point though

When your talking about support what products are they supporting? This makes a huge difference when trying to compare support for office products vs Photoshop, CAD, etc

They are 2 different beasts one can do so much, another can do it by themselves.

Palo asked a reasonable question. don't have to be a schmuck. I can't tell if your being sacrcastic about Acer or literal. Considering the article had nothing to do with your sarcastic comment, I agree with Palo. theres not one point in the article that might suggest HP's release of a chrome book poses any threat to Acer. The two names aren't even used in the same sentence. finish reading before you post....genius

I love O365. It's awesome. It 10x as good as google docs.

Office is great yah but for whatever like $350 its way over priced. now microsoft wants to go with a yearly subscription service for office. $100 to type letters and do simple spreadsheets is way too bloody much money. Google chrome is an AWESOME product. I get that its austere and all but for 90% of users, its more than enough. Seriously my father in law and mother both use them and thats all they need. the price is right. storage is mostly cloud based. honestly there is nothing to get upset about. though i do agree the article title is sensational but i've come to expect that from CNN

well skydrive is free dont know what your referring too

personalizing things is irrelevant

how do they differ then?

you forget Skydrive has everything Google Docs has and its free for "regular people"....and its browser base and works fine on Chrome.

Really - I have never seen anyone use a chrome book in any form. A friend review to use at a school, because they have no money, he still came up with thumb down. Who cares about the price, if you can't do anything with it.

I'm replying to you on my Chromebook and I love it... you can actually do plenty with it. It's all about your expectations and education about the device. I did my research before purchasing it and it fulfills my needs for a portable computer perfectly! I do not miss my windows netbook one bit!

yes your needs n yours only not everybody else

My needs only? I doubt that -- if it were only my needs, this article would not exist! :-)

lol RIP? chromebook for HP has been rated with negative reviews the next day information was leaked because of its price n battery life. Acer is probably the worse laptop company ever with so many other competitors.

I can't speak on the Acer ... I have the Samsung and the battery life is absolutely outstanding. I love it.

not for the price Acer is known for being cheapest model on the market. Its around $330 n how different can HP be thats like comparing HP vs Dell practically the same

The battery life was supposed to be disappointing but there was no mention of the price. What source did you see that had the pricing information in it?

dont remember exactly but its around 300-330 they speculated but why not get samsung for that much then

I'm starting to believe that Will has some sort of ties with Microsoft. His responses are extremely one-sided.

You guys are funny lol. your only looking at it from your perspective which is the consumer end. Testimony from people's comments state the same idea that Chrome is limited and cant do much more then surf the web. People will always need a PC or another computer other then a Chromebook, especially if its for work.

Has nothing to do with Microsoft ties, I just have experience supporting the Enterprise.

Please this device is highly subsidized you think they'll take over the computer industry with this device you must be joking. Like gmail n gdocs its free they get no revenue from this. This is like the Android where the OS is given to Acer to gain market share. I highly doubt Googles going to go this route with no actual profits. This segment will die when the revenue growth dries up

Acer for $200, articles say samsung older version was over $300 vs $250 price tag today how much money are they both making? not much just like Kindle Fire

dean, you sound like barney rubble or are you high ? what can't chromebooks do that most ppl require - online / cloud apps for everything now - google docs / photoshop / video editors / and drop box etc ....just a few and those few fulfill most people's pc functions very well. study up dude.

I've made this point before its for people who dont know how to use a computer

ok but they have a computer already nice assumption but wrong

This isnt a replacement, its a companion device you cant replace a PC for this n for how long as a daily user. Its a netbook

Sure great analogy. Or you could say its like saying Linux is going to kill Windows.
You sounded so smart with that iPhone analogy. Too bad it just does not hold water.