Acer Debuts $199 Chromebook One Week Before Black Friday

Thinking about snagging a cheap laptop this Black Friday? With one week to go before the year's most insane shopping day, Acer is launching a Chromebook that takes the price of owning a Google Chrome-powered computer to $199.99.

The Acer C270 Chromebook is almost exactly like the previous model the company unveiled in October, which costs $249.99. The new, cheaper model still packs an Intel Celeron processor for 8.5 hours of battery life, an 11.6-inch screen with 1,366 x 768 resolution and 16GB of storage. The only difference is the $199.99 version has 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB.