FAIL: Chromebook 11 sales halted

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Best Buy has reportedly halted sales of HP Chromebook 11 for unknown reasons by asking staff to stop selling the budget friendly laptop.

According to a report on The Verge, Best Buy has sent out urgent instructions to its store ...

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Something odd is happening right now – HP’s brand new Chromebook 11 is disappearing from retailers everywhere, including Amazon, Best Buy, and the Play Store. It’s not selling out, but instead being pulled with all sales suspended. While initially the reason was unknown, we have discovered that it’s due to the charger overheating.

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Google and HP have asked US-based stores selling the HP Chromebook 11 to take the product off the market following reports of a small number of chargers overheating. News of the Chromebook 11’s disappearance on store shelves at Best Buy first hit the web courtesy of The Verge although HP...

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Ominous rumblings rumbled this morning, as The Verge reported that Best Buy had yanked all of its supply of the HP Chromebook 11 from store shelves and stored them in secure warehouse locations, "effective immediately." The laptop disappeared from Amazon's online shelves, too, as well as from HP and Google's own web stores.

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Here's a heads up if you're in the market for Chromebook. Google and HP have put a temporarily hold on sales of the HP Chromebook 11 after a "small number" of users complained about an overheating issue with the stock charger that comes included with the laptop. In a statement on its Google Chrome Blog, the sultan of search said it and HP...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Hewlett-Packard are halting sales of their recently released Chromebook 11 computer after some users reported the device's charger has been overheating. The precautionary measure announced Wednesday comes slightly more than a month after Google Inc. and Hewlett-Packard

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