Acer Debuts Even Less Expensive $199 Chromebook C720 With Intel Haswell Inside
Acer’s $249 C720 Chromebook offered some solid specs (for a chromebook), and the company is already pushing the envelope further with a lower-priced C720 offering: the C720-2848 model will cost just $199.
The new model will run an Intel Celeron 2955U (Haswell) processor, and it will sport 16GB of SSD storage (with 100GB of Google Drive storage) and 2GB of DDR3L RAM with a battery that purports to last 8.5 hours under normal use. The 11.6-inch matte display offers a 1366x768 resolution, and there’s an integrated webcam, dual speakers, USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, HDMI, and 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi.
The machine is just 0.75 inches thick and weighs 2.76 pounds, and it comes with a month-long free trial of Google Play All Music Access and 12 free GoGo in-flight passes. You can snag the $199 Acer Chromebook C720 now from Amazon or Best Buy, and Acer will also sell it directly starting in December.
Based on the work we’ve done testing the $249 Acer C720 Chromebook for an upcoming review, we can say that either model is a good deal, but paying $199 for what this platform and hardware offer is truly impressive.
The new model will run an Intel Celeron 2955U (Haswell) processor, and it will sport 16GB of SSD storage (with 100GB of Google Drive storage) and 2GB of DDR3L RAM with a battery that purports to last 8.5 hours under normal use. The 11.6-inch matte display offers a 1366x768 resolution, and there’s an integrated webcam, dual speakers, USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, HDMI, and 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi.
The machine is just 0.75 inches thick and weighs 2.76 pounds, and it comes with a month-long free trial of Google Play All Music Access and 12 free GoGo in-flight passes. You can snag the $199 Acer Chromebook C720 now from Amazon or Best Buy, and Acer will also sell it directly starting in December.
Based on the work we’ve done testing the $249 Acer C720 Chromebook for an upcoming review, we can say that either model is a good deal, but paying $199 for what this platform and hardware offer is truly impressive.
