Wonder how this jibes with this report.

http://www.neowin.net/news/report-claims-just-500000-chromeb...

I also wonder if Chromebooks are priced to make even an operating profit.

It's all in how you draw the lines: "Sub $300 laptops" is a very distinct (and I would think small) category of total laptop sales.

An anecdote from http://thecartoons.net/2013/06/24/why-i-didnt-buy-a-samsung-...

>I asked a couple different Best Buy reps if the Chromebooks had a big return rate. "All the time," both said frankly. "They return it in a couple of days. They don't know how it works."

I'm sure that's true, however my own anecdotal experience with Best Buy is that they can't or don't properly educate consumers as to the right thing to buy in the first place.