Acer's premium Chromebook 14 boasts up to 14 hours of battery life
Chromebooks are finally growing up this year with bigger and sharper displays, premium design materials and ultra-long battery life.
Acer's new Chromebook 14 ditches the usual plastic for an all-aluminum body that's both sturdier and sleeker looking. The 14 in its name has dual meaning: a 14-inch full HD IPS screen and up to 14 hours of rated battery life. Acer says the latter is the industry's first.
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Inside, the 3.42-pound and 0.67-inch thick Chromebook 14 is more typical. It runs Chrome OS and is powered by an Intel Celeron processor (quad-core or dual-core) with either 2GB of 4GB of RAM. The laptop is fanless.
Above the 1,920 x 1,080 screen is a 720p webcam. For ports, the laptop has two USB 3.1 ports and an HDMI port.
Internal storage is pretty limited -- 16GB or 32GB -- but you'll also get 100GB of free Google Drive storage to store files.
The Chromebook 14 will be available in April at Amazon and Bestbuy.com starting at $299.99. Not bad for a Chromebook with a full HD screen and long battery life.
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