Acer upcoming Chromebook has been recently officially revealed, in this case we are talking about Acer C7 Chromebook and the company is clearly identified a price war with its main competitor in the market of such devices, with Samsung. Particularly appreciated the novelty at $ 200, while the last Korean development platform based ARM costs $ 250.
Unlike the Samsung Chromebook novelty Acer C7 Chromebook is based on the platform Intel, although it is using Intel Celeron 847 processor (2MB L3 cache, 1.10 GHz, DDR3 1333 MHz), not previously anticipated Core i5 ULV. However, the platform is very voracious in terms of power consumption compared to Exynos 5250, which results in a not very long battery life of 3.5 hours (7hours for Samsung product).
Acer C7 Chromebook is also equipped with 2 GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD. Mechanical hard drive is also not the best influence on autonomy, but it provides a considerable amount of disk space.
Other features includes three ports USB 2.0, HDMI and VGA, Adapter Ethernet, SD card slot and the module Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n. 11.6-inch display with resolution of 1366×768 pixels is present in it. Its weight is around 1.38 kg, thickness – less than an inch. The good news is that Acer C7 Chromebook is now on sale.