Acer ruins Apple's cheap iPad party with its own affordable Chrome OS tablet that includes a stylus

Apple wants to rule classrooms with the iPad, but Google is clearly not going to let that happen.

Ahead of Apple's education-focused event on Tuesday, where it will likely debut a cheaper iPad, Acer has announced its own low-cost tablet, and it's the first one to run Chrome OS.

Acer's Chromebook Tab 10 is clearly a shot aimed directly at Apple. At $329, the tablet offers mostly comparable specs and has one thing Apple's equally priced iPad doesn't: a built-in stylus.

• 9.7-inch (2,048 x 1,536 resolution) IPS display

• 3999 RockChip processor

• 4GB of RAM

• 32GB of storage (expandable via microSD card slot)

• Up to 9 hours of battery life

• 5-megapixel rear camera

• 2-megapixel front-facing camera

• Stereo speakers Read more...