Acer C720P-2600 Chromebook Launched [CES 2014]

Acer C720P-2600 Chromebook Launched [CES 2014]Last year, Chromebooks popularity of  U.S. notebook sale  increased to over 21 percent, which even outsold Android tablets and Macbooks. This increased graph itself indicated that there’s still demand for low priced notebooks featuring the internet dependant OS, the Chrome OS. Acer today launched an another addition to their Chromebook lineup, the Acer C720p-2600.

The Acer C720p-2600 Chromebook  features a 11.6-inch HD LED back-lit touch display with resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels, along with the 10-point touch and thus enables users to interact more naturally with the device using gestures such as swipe, tap and pinch to zoom. The Acer C720p-2600 comes in a sleek design with 0.78 inches thin and weighs 2.98 pounds and arrives in a new color called Moonstone white.

The Acer C720P-2600 Chromebook has an Intel Haswell based Intel Celeron 2955U processor and a 2GB of DDR3 RAM, which offers an improved performance and multitasking capability by not giving any heavy load to the battery. Acer also claimed that the battery life for the C720P-2600 Chromebook is good for up to 7.5 hours.  The 32GB onboard SSD provides a boot time below 7 seconds. As far as connectivity is concerned, the Acer Chromebook has 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and an integrated HD webcam.

Not only that, Acer is providing 12 free Gogo in-air internet passes to the customers, so as to let them remain productive on flights, along with the Gogo in-flight internet service. The Acer C720P-2600 comes with  up to 100GB of free Google Drive storage for the first two years (since the purchase). The Acer C720p-2600 Chromebook will be available in Moonstone White and will be priced at $299.99 in the U.S. Stay tuned for more updates.

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