The market researcher Canalys has published its observations on the PC market in the third quarter 2020, which, unlike the figures from IDC or Mercury Research, draw conclusions about the spread from Chromebooks. These are notebooks with Google’s Chrome OS operating system – often in the form of cheaper devices, for example for schoolchildren.

According to Canalys, in the third quarter 2020 sold around 9.4 million Chromebooks – more than twice as many as a year earlier. With around 80, 2 million desktop PCs and notebooks sold, this results in a market share of almost 12 Percent. The indication of 80, 2 million corresponds roughly with the figures of the well-known market researcher IDC (81, 3 million).

HP market leader With around 3.2 million HP has sold most Chromebooks, most of them in the US. The demand for notebooks there is particularly high due to the coronavirus pandemic; Schools lack millions of devices and take almost anything they can get their hands on. Lenovo has quadrupled its Chromebook sales within a year and reached around 1.8 million in the third quarter 2020. The remaining 4.4 million were largely shared between Dell, Acer and Asus.

Chrome OS is based on Google’s Linux distribution Chromium OS and allows the execution of natively installed programs and web apps. Schools and companies can service Chromebooks in large quantities using the on-board resources. Most devices have Celeron and Pentium processors from Intel with two to four Atom cores. There are also models with ARM CPUs and combination processors from AMD – for example the Ryzen 3000 C. (mma)