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Acer knows Chromebooks, and they, along with Asus rose to market majority when Netbooks were the rage. Acer's Chromebook C710 was a solid, affordable effort and the new Chromebook C720, available soon ...

Mainstream or not, here come the next-gen Chromebooks. Acer's C7 update claims 8.5 hours of battery life, even with a downgraded Haswell chip. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security ...

The first Haswell-based Chromebook has arrived, a scant month after we saw a tantalizing array of prototypes at the Intel Developer Forum. Acer announced Thursday that the C720-2800, an initial model ...

The new Acer C720 Chromebook launches today, delivering fast, responsive performance and up to 8.5 hours of long battery life with a new Intel processor based on Haswell micro-architecture. It has a ...

Acer launches an industry's first Chromebook model using a 4th Generation Intel Core i3 processor. The award-winning Acer C720 Chromebook is now available in two models powered by the Intel Core i3 ...

With the arrival of Acer’s new C720 Chromebook, one thing is immediately clear: All Chromebooks are not created equal. The Acer C720, on sale now for $249 and expected to ship later this month, is a ...

The perfect Chromebook has long been a pipe dream. All Google needed to do was release a model with great battery life and speedy performance for a price that well undercuts a typical Windows laptop.

Google's segment of portable computers loaded with Chrome OS is growing, and among recently announced new models is Acer's latest offering — the Acer C720, an inexpensive laptop that utilizes Intel ...

Acer was one of the first companies to launch a laptop running Google’s Chrome operating system, and the company has updated its Chrome OS laptops a number of times over the past few years. This ...

Though it seems like an oxymoron, the Acer C720 Chromebook (C720-3404) is a power users' Chromebook, thanks to its Intel Core i3 processor. The keyboard is adequate for typing anything from a school ...