It as a 1.1 GHz Intel Celeron 847 CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive, and it’s available for purchase for $199 from the Google Play Store or Best Buy.Ĭhrome OS is a light-weight operating system designed around the Google Chrome browser.
And I did run into some performance issues when putting the C7 through the paces.Īcer and Google loaned me an Acer C7 Chromebook for the purposes of this review. It’s not the fastest Chrome OS laptop around. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some trade-offs to consider before buying the Acer C7 Chromebook. It boots Chrome OS in just 20 seconds, resumes from sleep nearly instantly, and as an added bonus, it’s easy to install Ubuntu Linux (and possibly other operating systems) or to upgrade the memory or storage. The result is one of the most inexpensive laptops on the market, yet one which provides a reasonably good user experience. The approach helps keep the costs down - the Acer C7 is the least expensive Chromebook ever released, with a starting price of $199. Basically Acer took one of its cheapest existing Windows 7 laptops, retooled the keyboard a bit, and loaded up Chrome OS instead of Windows. Up until recently all Chromebooks have also taken a few design cues from Google, shipping with 16GB of solid state storage instead of a large hard drive, and with a custom keyboard which has a search button instead of a Caps Lock key, for instance.
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