Toshiba's 13-inch Chromebook now available

The First Chrome book to sport 13-inch display now available

a fast Intel Celeron processor,2 GB RAM, 16GB Solid State Drive, a claimed nine hours of battery life, and the chrome OS.

The Chromebook has found a niche at the low-end of the laptop market as CES made clear.

HP, Toshiba, Dell, Samsung, and Acer are all offering products that range generally from $199 to $299. 

So, think of it as a new PC category of sorts. "Asian majors like Lenovo and Samsung achieved strong double-digit growth...partly due to retail acceptance of their emerging product categories, such as Chromebooks," IDC said in its research note about holiday PC shipments.

And the category is just getting started. Intel expects more powerful Chromebooks to arrive later this year that rival Windows laptops in performance.