Acer Officially Announces C720 Chromebook

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @06:14AM 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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Re:Crappy screens by TechyImmigrant · 2013-10-10 06:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yup. I lost interest at 1366 followed by 768.

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want more pixels, ffs! by SMOKEING · 2013-10-10 06:25 · 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.