You are clueless about computers. Get down to Aldi and get yourself a Medion.

I'll give this deal a HOT.

Not because £279 is necessarily cheap but because if you get a good Chromebook, they are superb for basic every day usage - more than the sum of their parts.

- very fast and snappy
- instant on/off (non Windows 'wait for your dinner to cook' boot up routines)
- usually good battery life
- you can set up a dual boot configuration with Ubuntu etc
- vastly better protection against viruses/trojans/malware compared to Windows.

The other benefits of this one:

- all aluminium chassis (though 1.5kg is not necessarily light)
- 4gb RAM (useful if you have 20-30+ media centric Chrome tabs open)
- 1080p
- USB3.0 x 2 (just add a USB 3.0 128gb nano flash drive for storage)

I have 3 laptops at home - an Acer 720 Chromebook, a Dell XPS 13 and a Lenovo Y50.

For 80% of the things I do eg. web browsing, emails etc, I reach for the Chromebook over the others simply because it's faster and snappier doing those sort of tasks. It's also the smallest, lightest and cheapest laptop out of the 3, so I can take it around everywhere without worrying too much about it getting broken, lost etc.

ChromeOS would completely dominate the lower end of the market if Google put some resources into it instead of thinking that Android can somehow be ported to a desktop environment....

The only downside I would say - and this really a reflection of the market - is that you cannot get away with not having a Windows machine available to you somewhere simply because there's is no ChromeOS equivalent of certain software eg. Adobe CC, Lightworks etc. Even my label printer only comes with Windows based software.

Its cheap, yes it is a Acer but...

Not directly an answer to this model but here is some info about mine and why I like Chromebooks:-)

Its not for everyone but ChromeOS super easy to use so for the non technical, older and younger its actually great.
Its not Windows or a Mac both of which are pants.

You can stick a microSD 128Gb card in and notice no slow downs, I actually run Arch Linux off the SD card and it is super fast.

The build quality of my Asus Flipbook is fantastic all metal body and only weighs 900g!

ChromeBooks are also great if you want to run Linux because ChromeOS is basically Linux so you should be able to get drivers for what ever flavour of Linux you like.

This model is a Intel chip which if your running Linux is preferable, mine is a Arm Rockchip so I have to manually compile most software I want to use.

4 gig Ram is plenty for most things (I would not recommend 2 gig) I use it for coding etc. I don't use it for photo/video editing. Screen is plenty bright and battery lasts for long time.

I don't even use my i7 15 inch laptop with 16 gig Ram anymore as it just looks massive is heavy compared to my Chromebook and battery life is really bad:-)

Mine is a touch screen which works just fine in Linux but they are not for everyone.

Or you guys can choose the cheaper £200 (ish) one

i need 4gb ram now ;-) would want to find cheaper than 279 if im scrimping haha

It's a great Chromebook. Worth paying more over the cheaper one, I think, to get the extra RAM, better processor, and much better screen. Think I'd prefer silver and cheaper. I'm not sure this price is exactly a deal. Isn't it pretty much the going rate?

The cheaper ones are only 2gb and are available on and off for around £120-£130 mark

Car boot.

This is the cheapest I've seen around the web but there is a slightly cheaper 4gb that's in silver but with a slower processor from ebuyer

Sorry this item is out of stock..........:sunglasses:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-cb3-431-14-full-hd-chromebook-gold-10148917-pdt.html?awc=1598_1476458858_bbad7cc54e50d6e78601d29ac6602587&srcid=369&xtor=AL-11&cmpid=aff~HotUKDeals~Communities%20%26%20UGC~47868&istCompanyId=9a35962d-802d-4e67-9721-0a3328ca1f02&istItemId=qqpxmxaa&istBid=t&awid=47868

I have this one and it is great running Linux, anything bigger just looks huge compared:-)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/asus-c100pa-10-1-chromebook-flip-silver-10134431-pdt.html?intcmpid=display~RR