Chromebooks are certainly no longer niche products. Chromebooks are popular school and study notebooks, at least in the US. But also in this country, the laptops with ChromeOS (the Google system) are getting more and more popular. There are quite a few good reasons for this. Because the basic idea of the Chromebook is to run performance-hungry applications in the cloud. Although the devices are connected to the Internet, the actual computing power of the Chromebook plays a rather unimportant role. In this way, very cheap and yet good devices can be built, which are also real long-distance runners due to the slim system and the lower performance requirement.
You don’t have to do without the most important programs with Chromebooks, because Google has connected the Play Store known from Android here. So there is more than enough high-quality software out there.
The table below summarizes what we think are the most exciting Chromebooks. If you are looking for more details about the individual products or the ChromeOS system used, we recommend that you also take a look at our extensive purchase advice.