Thursday, 10 October 2013

Google launches Chromebooks from Acer, HP in India, coming on October 17

Google today announced it will launch its Chromebooks in India on October 17. It has partnered with Acer and HP for the first two devices. Google has also tied up with Airtel and Tikona for some data bundling plans. The Acer C720 will be priced at Rs 22,999 while the HP Chromebook 14 will be priced at Rs 26,990. Both the devices will be available from Reliance Digital and Croma retail stores and can also be pre-booked from Flipkart.
The Acer C720 features a 11.6-inch 1,366×768 pixel display, a 16GB SSD (along with 100GB of free Google Drive storage for two years), a VGA camera, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, one USB 3.0 and another USB 2.0 port. It runs on Intel Celeron 2955U processor based on Intel’s Haswell architecture and claims to have a battery life of 8.5 hours.
The HP Chromebook 14, on the other hand, has a 14-inch 1,366×768 pixel display, a 32GB SSD (along with 100GB of free Google Drive storage for two years), a 720p camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, two USB 3.0 and another USB 2.0 port as well as a 3-in-1 card reader. It too runs on Intel Celeron 2955U processor based on Intel’s Haswell architecture and claims to have a battery life of 9.5 hours.

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