Acer broadcasts productivity-oriented 13 and Spin 13 Chromebooks with beefier {hardware} [1]

Google's productivity-oriented Chrome OS has slowly turn into extra common over time. The OS was initially solely out there on a handful of companion units, however now there's a variety of choices for a possible Chromebook proprietor.

The vast majority of these choices are on a budget finish, with {hardware} to match - the typical Chromebook's price ticket ranges from $100 to $300, which could be a strong worth for college students, educators, or professionals who do not thoughts being locked into Google's ecosystem.

Nevertheless, Chromebook OEM companion Acer desires to succeed in a unique viewers now. The corporate right this moment introduced two barely extra highly effective units, the Chromebook 13 and Spin 13. These units will value $650 and $750 respectively, and so they'll each boast 2256x1504p screens and all-aluminum chassis.

If you happen to're questioning what you get for the additional cash you'd shell out for the Spin 13, it is going to include a Wacom stylus and a laptop-tablet hybrid design. This design means that you can flip the display roughly 360 levels for extra pure drawing, sketching, or note-taking.

Although the units are extra highly effective than their cheaper cousins, neither laptop computer's {hardware} goes to blow your thoughts. They each home 8GB of RAM, 64GB of flash storage, and Core i3 processors clocked at 2.2GHz. Whereas this {hardware} may be upgraded should you're prepared to shell out a bit of additional money, you are still paying some huge cash for not a lot in the best way of efficiency.

With that mentioned, Acer is not launching these units with the typical shopper in thoughts, a lot much less {hardware} fanatics. As a substitute, the corporate is focusing on companies with a commercial-sales-only coverage, but it surely's not clear the way it plans to implement that rule.

The Chromebook 13 and the Chromebook Spin 13 are set to launch someday this September.