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10-10-2013, 03:10 AM
Acer's latest 11.6-inch C720 Chromebook will sell for US$249.99, which is the lowest price yet in the newest wave of thin-and-light laptops with Google's Chrome OS.
The Acer Chromebook, announced on Thursday, will provide 8.5 hours of battery life. The laptop was shown last month and will run on an Intel Celeron processor based on the Haswell microarchitecture.
A C720 competitor will be Hewlett-Packard and Google's Chromebook 11, which provides 6.5 hours of battery and is priced at $279. The Chromebook 11 was announced this week and runs on an ARM-based Samsung Exynos processor.
Intel's Haswell processors were designed for PCs, and could give the Acer C720 Chromebook a performance advantage over HP's and Google's Chromebook 11. ARM processors were designed for smartphones and tablets.
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The Acer Chromebook, announced on Thursday, will provide 8.5 hours of battery life. The laptop was shown last month and will run on an Intel Celeron processor based on the Haswell microarchitecture.
A C720 competitor will be Hewlett-Packard and Google's Chromebook 11, which provides 6.5 hours of battery and is priced at $279. The Chromebook 11 was announced this week and runs on an ARM-based Samsung Exynos processor.
Intel's Haswell processors were designed for PCs, and could give the Acer C720 Chromebook a performance advantage over HP's and Google's Chromebook 11. ARM processors were designed for smartphones and tablets.
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