A Chromebook is a personal computer running Chrome OS as its Operating system. The devices are designed to be used while connected to the Internet and support application that reside in the web, rather than traditional applications that reside on the machine itself. All the data is stored in the "cloud" accessed by an internet connection. they are thin client
The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2011 right now it seem like every one has joined the bandwagon, every manufacturer want a piece of this market and they have been eating windows market slowly
Google is doing a good job by targeting learning institution with the Chrome project.
Apart from been light they are fast and affordable .Google is making both their operating system and Chromebooks more offline friendly.
the disadvantage of chromebook is since they are cloud based they dont come with a large disk space and processing power. We will wait and see if they will take over the like Android did
