Acer lowballs on price with Celeron-powered C7 Chromebook Google has added a third laptop to its current Chrome OS range with the Acer C7, a budget Chromebook that will sell for under $200 in the US from Tuesday and will arrive in the UK shortly. The C7 is a three pound laptop with an 11.6-inch, 1366x768 screen powered by a 1.10GHz Intel Celeron 847 processor with 2MB L3 cache and …
At £199 it's only £30 cheaper than the Samsung Arm equivalent...
Has 3.5 hour battery instead of 6 hour...
Is thicker...
Is Heavier...
Boot time is irrelevant... what about resume time?
Like the chromebox I assume there is a fan inside somewhere... The silence of the Arm Chromebook and lack of hotspots under load is worth the £30
Unless you want to enable dev mode and make it a short battery life Linux laptop then I don't see the budget benefits for £30... The only thing i'm missing with Arm is the NaCL part of Google SSH...
I thought Dixons at the airport was having a laugh with the Samsung 3G/Wifi at over £400..... Seems Acer employ the Dixons jokers as well.
I have the Samsung 550, which has both a Celeron processor and an Ethernet port, so it's not so unusual.
People who hate Chromebooks are missing the point. If you're not a , graphic designer or high end gamer, there's little you can't do with one of these. If, like me, you fall into one of the above categories they make pretty nifty seconddary machines when you just want to check something, or handy for doing a bit of editing on documents (even offline nowadays), and are great for remote access to a more powerful desktop at home when you're out and about.
Also nice to see something other than an apple logo when in your favourite expensive coffee chain.
Now if only they did one in psion 5 series style format, something that can fit into large pockets with a keyboard still today makes the psion 5 used today by people. A Chromebook in that formfactor would probably be more popular than many believe. Phones are great, but for many things you want a keyboard and with that Chromebook keyboards run just as fast as any highend all singing and dancing laptop, and it is with that which they are targeted for. You know, the boring things in life, the things you use a computer for other than games and playing home sysadmins. It is those things that the Chromebook is targeted towards and in many level is doing a more advanced duty of what psion series 5 organisers did back in there heyday. Just not as pocket friendly, though thats not there main target it is certianly a complementary avenue that would make for a realy nice and cheaper device.
Still the price direction will only help us consumers, be it directly or indirectly via makeing others compete.
It's a Chromebook... every ChromeOS device before it has a dev mode to allow booting from USB/SD storage and booting unsigned OS.
I expect it'll be like the Samsung Arm Chromebook and be keyboard combo with <ctrl>+u to boot rather than a physical switch given the comments by Google that they were moving away from physical switches for dev mode.
If it doesn't it'll be the first ChomeOS device not to support it.
But being Acer it will take you at least three attempts before you get one that works properly, then just after the warranty runs out it, something will break due to the penny pinching Acer production methods. My Acer Iconia tablet, great bit of kit (took me three to get a decent working one) just stopped working. Seems to save a little bit of production money, the power switch is not actually soldered to the motherboard, just held in place by willpower into the positioning holes. It will be a VERY long time until I even consider any Acer kit again.
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