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Acer Officially Announces C720 Chromebook

Posted by timothy on from the don't-stray-outside-the-wireless-zone dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Acer officially announced its new Chromebook, C720. The C720 is 30% thinner (at 0.75 inches thick) and lighter (at 2.76 pounds) than Acer's previous Chromebook, C7. The C720 Chromebook has an 11.6-inch anti-glare widescreen, with a 1,366-by-768 resolution. Acer claims seven second boot times and up to 8.5 hours of battery life. The C720 comes with 4GB of DDR3L memory and uses an Intel Celeron 2955U processor based on Haswell technology. The system also has 16GB of local SSD storage along with 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi to get to Google's cloud-based storage. Like previous Chromebooks, the C720 Chromebook is constantly updated with the latest version of the Chrome OS and built around the Chrome browser." One thing this machine lacks is the most intriguing feature of the new ARM-based (and lower-power) Chromebook 11 from HP: charging via Micro-USB.

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  1. Crappy screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keep me from upgrading my current ancient netbook.
    Get with the program guys!

    1. Re:Crappy screens by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yup. I lost interest at 1366 followed by 768.

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      I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
  2. want more pixels, ffs! by SMOKEING · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has been told many times already. 768 dots may be OK for a phone. For a laptop, anything less than a 1000 is just sad news.

  3. Chromebook is a waste by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why bother making Chromebooks, the market doesn't much seem to care for them. Instead they should be putting Android onto laptops since the market is already very familiar with Android and the marketplace is already well stocked with apps.

    The transition from a phone or tablet that runs Android to a laptop that runs Android would be quite minimal. You would be able to continue using very cheap hardware and people wouldn't have to worry about adopting an entire additional OS in their lives. Office applications exist for Android as well as many common applications for any number of purposes.

    Google's support for Chrome is puzzling when Android is incredibly entrenched in the market and public conscious. It would also allow Google to concentrate the resource on one Operating System instead of two. When you consider that people are already being forced to learn a new interface with Microsoft's Metro stunt, now is the time to step up to the plate and make Android that interface.