The big picture: Chromebook adoption surged in 2022 every bit parents, educators and employers scrambled to equip students and employees with affordable computers in order to work from domicile during the pandemic. What'due south more, experts believe demand will remain elevated in 2022 as we enter the second year of the Covid era.

According to recently published data from marketplace research firm Canalys, Chromebooks reached record shipment volumes of 11.2 meg units in the fourth quarter, an incredible 287 percent increase compared to the same menstruum a yr earlier (pre-pandemic).

The holiday functioning, when combined with the other three quarters, pushed the full-twelvemonth shipment full to 30.6 1000000 units.

"Need for Chromebooks is through the roof," said Canalys research manager Rushabh Doshi. "With governments in many countries racing towards a much needed 1:1 device to pupil ratio, Chromebook demand for pedagogy is expected to remain potent through 2022."

Individually, HP led the way in Q4 2022 with 3.5 million Chromebooks shipped, followed by Lenovo with 2.viii 1000000 units moved. Dell, Acer and Samsung rounded out the top five with shipment volumes of 1.v million, 1.4 million and 1.0 million, respectively.

Research firm Gartner saw it similarly in its mid-January report, logging xi.7 million Chromebooks shipped during the 4th quarter of 2022. The firm further said that "nearly 30 million units" were shipped collectively over the full year, fueled largely by need from the education market in North America.

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