Acer Models its Latest $199.99 Chromebook After the Impressive C720

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Acer’s C720 Chromebook is basically everything you could want from a $249 laptop, but apparently the company thinks it can still bring that price down a bit further. Today it’s introducing the Chromebook C720-2848, a $199.99 “entry-level” model that’s nearly identical to the already-cheap C720. They differ in one key area, though: the C720-2848 includes 2GB of RAM, whereas the $249 model offers twice that amount. That memory reduction seems to account for the $50 difference in price, as they appear to match up on all other specifications.

The C720-2848 features the same 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 display, the same Intel Haswell Celeron processor, and the same 16GB of flash storage space as the C720. And the exterior design has also gone…

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