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• Global Chromebook market growth quadrupled over Q4

  The global Chromebook market reached all-time highs over the last year, with shipments doubling over the previous calendar year.

• New software program runs Windows directly on Chromebooks

  Parallels claims its newly-launched Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise is the world’s first software that runs Windows directly on enterprise Chromebooks.

• According to Intel, 11th-gen Tiger Lake is on its way to Chromebooks

  Intel’s new 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs will be the “best processor for Chromebooks,” the company said in a blog posted on Monday.

• Synnex adds PaperCut to APAC portfolio

  Synnex Australia has inked a distribution deal for the Asia Pacific region with print management software provider PaperCut.

• Google touts success of Chromebooks in NZ schools

  Google says New Zealand has joined the list of countries where Chromebooks are king at school.

• Google offers 1TB of Drive for Chromebooks, continuing its storage war with Microsoft

  Google will offer new Chromebook buyers a free terabyte of Google Drive storage for two years, which at present rates would be worth almost $US240.

• Full-blown Photoshop is coming to Chromebooks

  Instead of having to rely on watered-down Photoshop clones, Chromebook users could eventually get the real thing.

• Chromebook sales explode in the workplace

  Tablets may be all the rage, but there's a significant turf war brewing in the US PC market. Between January and May, Chromebook sales to US businesses and other large institutions rose by more than 250 per cent compared to the same time last year, according to a new report from market research firm, NPD Group.

• In Pictures: 15 Chrome OS productivity apps that work offline

  Chromebooks are lightweight, inexpensive and efficient -- in other words, great for business travel. But can these Cloud-based laptops operate when you're off Wi-Fi? Sure they can -- here are 15 productivity apps that can work with you when you're offline.

• Tablet boom reinvented notebook PCs: Kensington

  The portability of tablets has driven notebook PC manufacturers to re-evaluate their products, according to Kensington.

• Google hints at remote wipe, lock and locate features for Chromebooks

  Losing a Chromebook could be less troublesome in the future with the addition of remote device management tools.

• Intel wants inside every Chromebook, announces slew of new models

  If Google's Chromebook is the next big thing, Intel wants to make sure that Intel is Inside.

• In Pictures: 8 reasons why Chromebooks aren’t going away

  t’s been more than two years since the first Chromebooks went on sale. They certainly haven’t taken the world by storm and there have been varying opinions and doubts about the viability of this notebook platform that runs Chrome OS. But Chromebooks are still alive and may be sticking around for a while. Here are 8 reasons why: