Acer Refreshes C7 Chromebook With Better Battery, More RAM

The problem is the 12 year warranty, you know that most of them won't last more than 2 years

typo in previous post i meant 1 year.
BTW if we could edit our post I could of corrected it

Although 12 years warranty would be nice!!!!

Little shocked that it doesn't have network port... Not a bad price for what ya get though...

Something like this, 5 years ago, would have cost around $2,799.00.

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Dump ChromeOS and install Ubuntu or Windows and you'd have a halfway useful machine. But if you spend a little bit more you can just get a real laptop with a faster CPU, better storage and connectivity, etc. I see these Chromebooks as more of a competitor to entry-level tablets.

I have a Gateway laptop (came with Vista) from 2008 right in front of me with similar specs and it only cost about $500 new and another $80 for the 4GB RAM upgrade. Even if I was to try to match specs more ideally, I could have done so for about $700 to $800. For $2K to $3K, I could have instead gotten a nice Core 2 Quad laptop that is much better than this Chromebook IIRC, although I'd have to check to be sure if we had many mobile Core 2 Quad options in early to mid 2008. Even if not, decent Core 2 Duo options would have still been available and still been faster than this even if at the cost of much higher power consumption.

not really a problem IMO.. it's pretty common for people to trade up after a year anyways..

Could make a sweet Linux machine as far as Chrome and the cloud, I'll pass.

The Chromebook concept is an interesting one. Google has made good progress in getting people to accept the internet-only premise, but they still have work to do on that front. So sticking with a low-cost product line is the best way to go for now.

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