Lenovo’s latest Chrome OS laptop is coming in October for $179 and up. The Lenovo 100S Chromebook features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and up to an Intel Celeron N2840 Bay Trail processor.
While the specs seem a bit dated at a time when Cherry Trail, Braswell, and Skylake chips are available, the price is right: the Lenovo 100S Chromebook should sell for about $179 when it launches in October.
The laptop features 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, HDMI, a headset jack, and a 1MP webcam.
It supports up to 4GB of RAM and up to 32GB of eMMC storage. Customers will also get 100GB of free Google Drive storage space for two years.
The Lenovo 100S Chromebook measures about 11.8″ x 8″ x 0.8″ and weighs 2.6 pounds. Lenovo says the Chromebook should get up to 8 hours of battery life.
Prefer a Windows laptop? Lenovo will also offer the IdeaPad 100S with Windows.
There’s a $189 IdeaPad 100S model with an Intel Atom Z3735F Bay Trail processor, up to 2GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, audio, and SD card jacks, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 0.3MP camera.
Lenovo also has a $259 model with a 13 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a Braswell processor, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 64GB of eMMC storage or a 256GB solid state drive, and 802.11ac WiFi.
Wait.. what the heck is the acer computer that you tucked in at the end?
A typo — I’d just finished writing an article about Acer and my fingers hadn’t caught up yet.
I meant to say Lenovo.
Ah cool.. any idea what the 13″ model is? 4 Gig’s of ram, plus 13″ screen would be a sweet spot for a low end linux notebook.