From PC World: Chromebooks are gaining popularity at the expense of Windows machines, and Acer is cashing in with a touchscreen laptop based on Google’s Chrome OS.
Acer’s new Chromebook C720P-2600, which has an 11.6-inch touchscreen and runs on Intel’s dual-core Celeron 2955U chip based on the Haswell architecture. The laptop is three-quarters of an inch thick, weighs just shy of 3 lbs., and delivers 7.5 hours of battery life, the company said.
The $300 laptop will be available in the second week of January. It will be shown at Pepcom’s Digital Experience event on Jan. 6 in Las Vegas, one day ahead of International CES trade show.
Chromebooks are for those who rely on the Internet for computing and storage. Chromebooks accounted for 21 percent of commercial laptops shipped in the U.S. last year, according to NPD, and Acer’s C720P model is one of the biggest-selling laptops on Amazon.com.
Chromebooks have done well because they target the needs of customers who depend on collaboration and cloud computing, said an Acer spokeswoman in an email. Acer also wants to give users a choice in OSes from Microsoft and Google, the spokeswoman said.
Acer now has nine Chromebook C720P models, including two with touchscreens. But the Chromebook market is getting competitive with Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Lenovo and others offering laptops with Chrome OS.
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