Asus and Acer Chromebooks launch new this year

 

Chromebooks are equipments very varied. Most of these portable are of range low or midrange, but also there some of range high as the Chromebook Pixel of Google. If you are looking for the search engine company is to dominate the market for portable , need all the help of its partners to achieve, so they are expecting more notebooks for this year. According fountains forming part of the chain of suppliers of Google, both Asus as Acer have plans to l anzar new Chromebooks during the current 2013.
Los details on the new model of Asus are really scarce, only know it will be launched during the third or last quarter of year. Regarding the Acer seems to have a 11.6-inch screen and will go on sale in July.
In these teams just are in the early stages of development and still no specifications for how to be, but what is expected is entering the field of mid-range notebooks and be sold at a very reasonable price, which is not does the Chromebook pixel Google.
Recall also that Lenovo and HP are also looking at the possibility of creating their own Chromebooks, so the picture is quite interesting. 

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Acer Chromebooks adds new line C7

More and more models are emerging Chromebooks and the best part is that they do it quickly. The latest company to announce its new models is nothing more and nothing less than Acer, who just updated its line of portable C7 with the addition of the C710-2055 that stands out as having 6 hours of battery. This particular model is geared for business people and for use in public places like schools, so that children can have the technology at hand. According to Acer, the new C710-2055 is an ideal machine for those who require to use few resources but have a lot of material in the cloud.
The differences between the new models are apparently minimal. In general, the new Chromebook is equipped with an Intel dual-core Celeron 847 running at 1.1GHz, also has a 320GB hard drive and 11-inch screen gives a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels. What makes it different from other models of Chromebooks from Acer and other companies is that it has 4GB of RAM instead of 2 and 6-cell battery.
The C710-2055 is for sale and can be ours for $ 280. Remember also that the original C7 model costs $ 200.

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Google tendrá su propia cadena de tiendas

Apple has its own stores. Microsoft has its own stores. Even Samsung has its own stores as well. What is the only major company in the technology sector that has not yet? The search engine company, our beloved Google, but this may change soon. Apparently, the Google guys are preparing to open its own chain of stores near the end of the year, where you can buy your best products, such as the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Chromebooks, among other things, not to mention Glass famous sunglasses.

The report comes from the same place where the first news leaked about the project Glass, so it's a pretty reliable source. The idea behind the store is so consumers can be easily done with Nexus devices, Chrome OS devices and other products that are on the way. The company believes that many people need to have a product in their hands before daring to buy, and physical stores would solve this problem.

The Google Glass is one of the main reasons why the search engine company wants to open a chain of stores, since many people will not be able to realize their potential without testing them first.

No one knows where these stores are located, but is likely to be launched initially in some major capital of the world, such as London, Paris, Berlin, etc.., Obviously besides New York, even if not a capital.

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Lenovo gets on the train with the ThinkPad X131e Chromebooks

More and more companies are launching Chromebooks models, most of them facing the education sector. Lenovo is the latest company that has joined the party and has done so with the new Lenovo ThinkPad X131e. It is a laptop with reinforced corners, ideal to withstand the inevitable drops.
Under the chassis of this laptop we can find an Intel that has not been specified, but it is likely that it is a Celeron. The screen measures 11.6 inches laptop and gives us a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels. Additionally, the team has three USB ports, also includes an HDMI and a VGA. Conectivdad also has WiFi and has a webcam. The battery is able to survive for an entire school day and weight of 1.8 kilogamos team should not be a burden.
The price of the Lenovo ThinkPad X131e was not released, but will be released on February 26.

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A A15 Samsung demonstrates its performance with Ubuntu

With the launch of new models of Chromebooks by Samsung and Acer and the decline being experienced by netbooks is more likely that Chromebooks are more likely to succeed in the market. Obviously this does not lead us to question how good is the performance of one of these machines.

A user emptied your Samsung A15 Chrome OS operating system and installed Ubuntuinstead. By doing so, turned his laptop into a powerful team.

The laptop in question is 11 inches, has a Cortex-A15 CPU Dual-core 1.7GHz, uses a Mali-T604 GPU, has 2GB of RAM and 16GB memory consists in SSD.

After installing Ubuntu, system performance improved significantly as you can see in the picture below. This makes it quite clear that Ubuntu is one of the best distros of Linux and is very well optimized.

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Google launches Chromebooks rental service

Lately some rumors circulating about a new service that Google launched and was renting Chromebooks. It seems that these rumors proved to be true, as the company is now renting these laptops to $ 30 monthly. $ 30 may seem expensive for most, but the good news is that this price drops every year. During the first year, we paid $ 30 per month for the second we paid $ 25 each month and during the third year and then on the monthly cost is $ 20.

The good thing about this service is that it does not come with any contract for 1 year or similar. The contract is renewed monthly, so next month if you plan not to use it, just have it back at the end of this month and problem solved.

In addition to launching this new service, Google has also started selling Chromebooks wholesale, each costing $ 600. This amount may sound expensive for the average user, but corporations is a good deal.

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