Like many Chromebooks, it comes with just 4GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron processor, but if your computing tasks are relatively simple, you’ll find plenty of performance here under the hood.

It sports a sleek look, featuring a silver chassis and thin bezels, despite being just 3.75 pounds. The Samsung Chromebook 4+ is another 15-inch Chromebook, but it’s one of our favorites. It’s still fairly sleek and lightweight, though, and its internal battery provides up to 12 hours of juice, giving you more than enough for a day’s worth of work and entertainment. But the highlight of this model is its 15.6-inch HD touch display, which gives you a lot more screen real estate to work with. This Chrome OS laptop features a quad-core Intel Pentium N4200 CPU, 4GB of DDR4 RAM, and 32GB of storage for handling basic tasks. Acer Chromebook 15 Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsĬompact laptops are handy for travel, but for hours of regular use and work, a full-sized computer like Acer’s excellent Chromebook 15 might be a better option. It may not replace your full-featured Windows, Mac, or Chrome OS laptops, but for such little money, it’s hard to find this much laptop. Since Chrome OS is largely cloud-based, you don’t need too much space to handle your basic needs. It also comes with 32GB of flash storage for files and apps. This 14-inch computer runs on a quad-core CPU and 4GB of RAM – snappy enough for work tasks like web browsing and word processing. For a super-affordable alternative to laptops like the Yoga, consider Lenovo’s Chromebook S330. Lenovo is putting out some of the best Chromebooks on the market today, but its high-end offerings naturally don’t come cheap.

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