27,000 Google Chromebooks Sent to US Schools

If anyone was wondering what had come of Chromebooks now that everyone seems to be all about tablets, the answer, or part of it, is that they are about to start being used in US education.

Right to the point, Google has revealed that 27,000 of these machines are going to reach schools across 41 states.

The move will help raise awareness of the devices and prepare the market base for when Google thinks it can try to compete with Wintel slates and notebooks.

As a reminder, Chromebooks are mobile PCs that have the bare minimum of storage and work directly off the cloud.

In other words, all the files are created and stored online, and the applications utilized for such tasks are, for the most part, cloud-based as well.

Chromebooks are also quite light and capable of operating on much less energy than full-fledged laptops.