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Read more.Different architecture to the Samsung Chromebook released a few weeks ago.
It uses a 1.1GHZ Celeron 847:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11...c7_chromebook/
According to www.xe.com today, 1.00 GBP is worth 1.58821 USD
How very dare they screw us over like this... $199 is currently worth £125.30.
I find that offensive enough to say to both Samsung and Acer: No. Stop screwing us over with the exchange rate and I might reconsider. Until then, you can shove your Chromebooks where the exchange rate doesn't shine.
Cheaper, but faster, but less battery, but more storage, but that storage is slower and it's heavier...
Not a confusing product line-up at all.
Would make a tidy little Netbook though if you whipped out the crappy hard disk and whipped in a reasonable modern SSD, a Samsung 830 or something - would improve the battery as well probably. I suspect higher capacity batteries can be had on eBay/Amazon - it's the same chassis as a standard Acer Netbook.
Plus import tax and VAT. Thanks UK.gov ;-)How very dare they screw us over like this... $199 is currently worth £125.30.
£150 with the VAT, though that's still an impressive gouge.Originally Posted by Roobubba
I think the battery life is the killer for this one, you want to be able to have it on your lap for an evening without having to go searching for the charger before the 10 o'clock news!
Why do people keep going on about these companies screwing us over on the £ vs $.....UK has massive 20% VAT probably import duties and the US market is about 5 times the size of the UK market hence greater economies of scale!
Mind you they probably do screw us over a little :-)
I think we all understand that a certain markup is required to account for the extra logistics and import duty associated with bringing items into the UK. However, in this case, it's still 33% more than in the US which is way more than it should be - it's obviously to hit the 'magic' <200 figure, but just changing the $ for £ sign is, quite frankly, an offense to all of us dutiful adopters of technology in this country. They're not selling to a loss, here: they really should try to avoid irritating customers who by definition are helping their bottom line. Alienating customers is a terrible long-term business stratagem (just look at all the (IMHO justified) anti-Apple sentiments that have been cropping up more and more over the last couple of years...).
Because trailing a cable to the wall from your sofa is a MASSIVE hassle and totally beyond the tolerances of any reasonable human.
I usually plug my lappy in if I'm sat down, performance is better thanks to less aggressive power management (without me changing settings) and it saves charge cycles on my battery.
Far bigger issue is when you're not at home... especially for a portable device...
You must not buy a single thing then if your philosophy is not to buy anything that is not priced fairly compared to other countries. We've being paying unfairly forever - get over it.
can you put normal programs onto it as it is not x86, or is that celron x86?
This one is x86, the Samsung one uses an ARM processor.
http://ark.intel.com/products/56056/...Cache-1_10-GHz
The 847 is a decent enough CPU for this kind of device.
Well, no... There are degrees. Like most others, I am willing to accept a reasonable markup on imported goods. What we've seen increasingly over the last 5 or so years is a steady increase in the UK price relative to the US price with a view to making it completely the norm for us to pay the $ price in £. The Samsung chromebook at least makes some concession to the UK with a slightly lower UK price than the $/£ equivalent. This Acer unit is taking the urine, though - that's what I object to the most!
No its a chrome book, it has a CPU too enable you too connect to a google provided cloud service, that is the purpose of it.
However I'm sure you can hack the crap out of it
throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)
Probably depends on how much hardware security Acer have bothered putting in (at that price I'd be willing to be not much... I'm sure you can hack the crap out of it). I know ChromeOS has boot verification but I think that's just software, so unless it's BIOS locked in some way it's quite possible that you could slap Windows/full Linux on it - at £199 it'd be pretty damn cheap for a full desktop Linux netbook
If this is Acer, they're not made in the US, so import duties etc will have to be paid there as well. On the flip side, state taxes are usually added after the transaction, so the US price quoted is usually before tax, as this differs from state to state...
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