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According to the website The Verge, Microsoft has already started preparing an offensive against the increasingly popular class of mobile computers that are running the operating system Google Chrome OS. By the autumn of this year, the software giant promises by its partners to offer laptops valued at less than $ 249. For example, in the case of the product we are talking about Acer 15.6-inch screen, 4GB of RAM, a hard disk capacity of 500 GB and Intel Celeron processor with a frequency of
2.16 GHz. A great option for work that does not depend on an Internet connection, as opposed to Chromebooks.
Toshiba is ready to offer for the same amount slightly more compact laptop with 11.6-inch display, which is equipped with a solid state drive 32 GB and some processor Celeron. HP also will offer its mobile device family Stream with screens 7 "and 8", which will cost only $ 99. They will run on Windows. However, it is not specified, whether it is a new tablets by HP, or they will resemble something hybrid netbook. However, Microsoft's initiative aimed at distancing similar
devices from power netbooks with limited speed. By the way, HP will offer the New Year holidays laptop costing only $ 199, the characteristics of which are not specified yet.
It is clear that reducing the price Microsoft is seeking not only by saving on the cost of components - these features in such a positioning severely limited, but also due to refusal of license fees for proprietary software.
Interestingly, the site Computerworld reports phenomenal popularity of Chromebooks from Dell enterprise customers. The company even had to suspend sales of this device type . In the U.S., all laptops purchased by corporations in 2014, about 35% had it on Chromebooks. Dell will release a model of Chromebooks with processor-based Core i3. In the case of the deficit will be given preference to certain corporate customers.
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