Acer's Chromebook R11 puts Chrome OS at your fingertips By CNET

This is the Acer Chromebook r11. It is, as the name implies, a Chromebook you're, getting a fairly cheap notebook. That's ideal for getting stuff done on the web. You'll find fast, Wi-Fi connectivity, great battery life and a nice. If low resolution screen all for 330 bucks, VR 11 is also a hybrid laptop packing, a 360 degree hinge and a touchscreen. You can flip the screen back and use it as a tablet or prop it up right to watch movies.

We've seen this design plenty of times on machine running Windows 10, but the Chromebook R 11 runs Google's Chrome OS, which is essentially just the Chrome browser and chrome, isn't quite optimized for touch. Now. There are some neat mobile oriented tweaks here, like the keyboard you can swipe across. If you spend most of your time online living in Google's ecosystem you'll be right at home. Here your files will live in the cloud in Google Drive, which is handy because there's only 32 gigs of storage space, a full sized SD card slot, sits on the left side of the laptop, and there are a pair of USB ports on either side.

If you need more storage, you won't be able to run most of the apps you might be familiar with, but there's a web alternative for just about everything from writing in Google Docs to editing photos and third-party fleck Pixar. Now the hybrid laptop design is a neat touch, and we are level handled itself rather well. But if you're in the market for a budget machine, there's quite a bit of competition from dirt cheap Windows devices to competing Chromebooks that lack of fancy touchscreen but can save you a bit of cash, read my full review to see if the trade-offs are worth it.

Source : CNET