Acer’s eBay store is always a good place to find deals on refurbished products. Right now the company is selling 11.6 inch notebooks with Chrome OS or Windows 8, and an all-in-one desktop running Google Android at low prices. The $199 desktop is also basically a 1080p monitor, but it has a TI OMAP 4430 […]
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Deals of the Day (8-14-2013)
The Acer C7 Chromebook is one of the cheapest laptops money can buy. It’s an 11.6 inch notebook with an Intel Celeron processor and Google’s Chrome operating system. It may not be the most powerful computer or the most versatile operating system around, but at $200 and up, it’s a pretty good bargain for folks […]
Acer markets C7 Chromebooks for education, business
The Acer C7 Chromebook is one of the cheapest Chrome OS laptops available, with prices starting as low as $200. The 11.6 inch notebook is a regular on Amazon’s top 10 list of best-selling laptops. Now Acer is hoping to break into the business and education markets, with two new models featuring prices starting at […]
$199 Acer C7 Chromebook with 16GB SSD coming soon
The Acer C7 Chromebook is one of the cheapest laptops money can buy, with a starting price of around $199. But when Acer introduced this low-cost Chrome OS notebook, the company kept prices low by including a hard drive instead of a speedier solid state disk (something found in most other Chromebooks). Now it looks […]
Up to 10 percent of Acer’s laptop shipments are Chromebooks
Chromebooks may have gotten off to a slow start when they first hit the streets in 2011. But now Acer CEO Jim Wong says Chromebooks are making up 5 to 10 percent of the company’s shipments since the launch of the $199 Acer C7 Chromebook in November. In an interview with Bloomberg, Wong says the […]
$50 battery doubles run-time of the Acer C7 Chromebook, V5-171 notebook, more
Several of Acer’s inexpensive 11.6 inch notebooks use the same batter. The Acer Aspire One 756, Acer TravelMate B113, and Acer Aspire V5-171 Windows laptops and the Acer C7 Chromebook all have the same 3-cell battery and typically offer between 3 and 4 hours of battery life. But if you pick up a 3rd party […]
Acer C7 Chromebook Review ($199 Chrome OS laptop)
A Chromebook is basically a laptop that runs Google’s Chrome Operating System. Up until recently all Chromebooks have also taken a few design cues from Google, shipping with 16GB of solid state storage instead of a large hard drive, and with a custom keyboard which has a search button instead of a Caps Lock key, […]
Yes, you can upgrade the memory, HDD on Acer’s $199 Chromebook
The Acer C7 Chromebook is one of the cheapest laptops money can buy. It sells for just $199 and features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.1 GHz Intel Celeron 847 processor and runs Google Chrome OS. But the hardware is virtually identical to what you’d find in a cheap Windows laptop. […]
How to install Ubuntu 12.04 on the $199 Acer C7 Chromebook
The Acer C7 Chromebook is a $199 laptop that ships with Google Chrome OS. But under the hood, it’s a lot like other laptops which can run Windows, Linux, or other operating systems — and there’s an easy way to install at least one of those operating systems. Developer Jay Lee offers a custom version […]
First look at the $199 Acer C7 Chromebook (Video)
The Acer C7 Chromebook is a $199 laptop which runs Google Chrome OS. But aside from the price and the operating system, there’s not much that sets the C7 apart from your average portable notebook. In fact, if the Acer C7 looks familiar, it’s because it’s virtually identical to the Acer Aspire V5-171 Windows laptop […]