Began accepting orders for Google Chromebook from $ 380

In the United States, Best Buy and Amazon have started accepting pre-orders for Google Chromebook. Sales begin June 15 in the USA, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain.

Two Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer are now offered, each of them has WiFi and WiFi + 3G model.

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook: display 12.1 ", weight 1.5 kg, 8.5 hours battery, Intel Atom N570 processor (1.66 GHz), 2 GB RAM, 16 GB SSD, two USB ports, web camera, no HDMI port. The price is $ 430 for WiFi and $ 500 for WiFi + 3G. The price includes the Verizon Wireless tariff plan for 100 MB per month.
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Acer Cromia Chromebook : display 11.6 "(1366x768), weight 1.45 kg, battery for 6 hours, there is an HDMI port, the rest is almost the same. Price $ 380 for WiFi and $ 450 for WiFi + 3G. Pro tariff 3G says nothing.

In addition to a more powerful battery, the Samsung laptop has another advantage: it is available in gray and pretty white, while the Acer has only black.

For corporate users, Google sells Chromebooks directly for $ 28 per user per month. Students - $ 20 per month.

Add that Google in December began free distribution of 60,000 Cr-48 Chrome laptops on a beta testing program . It's nice that among the testers were Habr users .