Take home a versatile and virus-proof Chrome OS laptop at a deep discount before the holiday sales even start with hot prices on Chromebooks from Acer, Samsung, and Lenovo.
Saving money is what we do here in the PCMag Deals Department, and one of the best ways to do that in the portable PC space is by looking beyond Apple and Windows laptops to the Chromebook market. What was once a niche for ultra-cheap laptops for students has expanded radically as Chrome OS gets more powerful and versatile with every release, and modern Chromebooks are faster and more capable than ever while still being way cheaper than the competition. We’d expect to see a plethora of Black Friday deals for Chrome-powered computers, but here are five early deals on portables that you can save on right now.
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The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 took home our Editors‘ Choice award as „the best Chromebook for most people“, with reviewer Brian Westover saying the unit „proves that budget-friendly Chromebooks have more to offer than ever before, with more performance and even better features.“ At just under $400, you get a surprisingly peppy machine that excels in cloud-based tasks. Components include an Intel Core i3-1215U CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of internal UFS storage; that’s all significantly better than most other ChromeOS machines on the market.
