Acer lowballs on price with Celeron-powered C7 Chromebook

Fail and Fail

X86 and HDD.

Nuff said

That will be £200 in the UK then.

A 1.1 GHz celeron?

Probably still better off waiting for clearance sales and getting last year's 'decent' laptop for the same price or slightly more.

Fact check

I've got the 550 model, which has a Celeron and an Ethernet port.

It's a fantastic little device which makes for a perfect secondary machine.

Fact Check

I have the Samsung 550, which has both a Celeron processor and an Ethernet port, so it's not so unusual.

People who hate Chromebooks are missing the point. If you're not a , graphic designer or high end gamer, there's little you can't do with one of these. If, like me, you fall into one of the above categories they make pretty nifty seconddary machines when you just want to check something, or handy for doing a bit of editing on documents (even offline nowadays), and are great for remote access to a more powerful desktop at home when you're out and about.

Also nice to see something other than an apple logo when in your favourite expensive coffee chain.

Now if only

Now if only they did one in psion 5 series style format, something that can fit into large pockets with a keyboard still today makes the psion 5 used today by people. A Chromebook in that formfactor would probably be more popular than many believe. Phones are great, but for many things you want a keyboard and with that Chromebook keyboards run just as fast as any highend all singing and dancing laptop, and it is with that which they are targeted for. You know, the boring things in life, the things you use a computer for other than games and playing home sysadmins. It is those things that the Chromebook is targeted towards and in many level is doing a more advanced duty of what psion series 5 organisers did back in there heyday. Just not as pocket friendly, though thats not there main target it is certianly a complementary avenue that would make for a realy nice and cheaper device.

Still the price direction will only help us consumers, be it directly or indirectly via makeing others compete.

This will work

I can see myself putting Linux on it if I don't take to Chrome. At $200, not a tragedy if it isn't perfect.

Acer

But being Acer it will take you at least three attempts before you get one that works properly, then just after the warranty runs out it, something will break due to the penny pinching Acer production methods. My Acer Iconia tablet, great bit of kit (took me three to get a decent working one) just stopped working. Seems to save a little bit of production money, the power switch is not actually soldered to the motherboard, just held in place by willpower into the positioning holes. It will be a VERY long time until I even consider any Acer kit again.