Touchscreen Chromebook dropped by £70 too.... http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-chromebook-r-13-cb5-312t-2-in-1-touchscreen-silver-10153641-pdt.html

1.6 Ghz processor? What year is this? 2001?

I'm happy with mine, bought it last December.

Same price on Amazon too. Nice Chromebook.

great chromebook, do not confuse these with Windows devices. these are great for surfing the web and remoting into high powered windows machines it will also be getring android apps soon. plus will last 10hrs+ between charges.

No Touchscreen. Big Negative. Android apps /Play store only work correctly with touchscreen.

Chromebooks have very few native google apps. I returned a Chromebook in past due to lack of communication apps like in Windows or Android or IOS. They only make sense now if Android apps work on them . Android apps need touchscreen to work properly.

This one is cheaper with touchscreen.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-chromebook-r-11-cb5-132t-2-in-1-touchscreen-white-10156150-pdt.html?intcmpid=display~RR

It's been cheaper, but still a great price for a very impressive piece of kit.

Chromebooks have always made sense , Android apps are adding something to Chrome OS but are not the be all, its still a useful OS even without them....
It is a browser based OS with predominantly browser based apps.....If Android apps are the priority for you then you should buy an Android OS based machine....

Chrome is NOT Android

I have the 2017 version of this and love it, it's instant on and the screen is fantastic, whenever I want to just surf the web, send emails or watch some youtube videos etc it's perfect. Also, having easily installed Linux via Chronos I can switch between the 2 environments and work on it if I need to test something etc.

Uh that only has an 11" screen. You are shopping for something very different to what's been posted here. Suggest you get a tablet.

To you but clearly not to others. Simple to grasp really.

Chromebooks are so rubbish.

I am liking the deal but has anyone had dealing with Currys and Pcworld recently with customer service and returning faulty items ? they were never good with these things 10yrs ago or so and I found them to be rude while window shopping and I stopped using them.
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That may need true but the performance from the N3160 is far from stellar.

Anyone who has owned the Acer Chromebook C720 from 2013 will notice a drop in performance when using the Acer Chromebook 14, battery life is great, performance is mediocre at best.

Interested to know where you got your octane scores from, from my research the n3160 has octane score of 8200, n3060 is 8600. The n3160 is not twice as fast as the n3060...unless I'm missing something?

I wasn't replying to the performance I was replying to the false information that GHz is the primary designator of CPU performance, you have to take in to consideration the CPU architecture, which has vastly improved in the 16 years since 2001. This is true of any technological advances, car engines for example, we're able to get more power out of less CC, so comparing 1 litre engines in cars now and 2001 there's a big difference in some cases etc etc. You wouldn't see a Ford Mondeo with a 1 litre engine 15 years ago but you do now.

A screen that is lower Res too

got one for my wife. been looking for a full hd chromebook for a while. performance very good for internet browsing.
great speakers, nice looking with aluminium chassis. miles better than windows, occasional updates take seconds.
£229 good price.
Would recommend

I am sitting on one as I type and I'm very happy with mine, the whole chromebook/cloud idea does seem like the way forward. Only downer for me is 4gb of ram maybe not enough when i have a lot of browsing windows open. If anyone knows of any 8gb or more chromebooks on offer, I would like to know