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hi I'm Scott Stein and i am a chromebook acceptor this is a new thing for me what you know Chromebooks have been out there for a while and their value proposition really depends on whether you believe that computers are transforming into more tablet e mobile devices you don't have to power use quite the same way it's more about web browsing and Chrome OS is really just a very smart web browser that has additional features that work offline plus it runs apps but those apps are basically also like web pages they're not really downloaded and and so it's really kind of like a very smart browser it all comes down to the price and the features well the acer chromebook c720 p is probably my favorite chromebook that i've seen why well it has a touch screen right here do you need a touch screen on a Chromebook what would the point of that be well there are only been a few Chromebooks that I even have touchscreens the Chromebook pixel which is over a thousand dollars was the prime example but usually a lot of these have been like netbooks really low n processors basic on-board storage doesn't really do much and costs about two hundred dollars ish in that range about what you would pay for a netbook in the past and why would you do that if the battery life and the performance weren't up to par well the c720p had about six hours of battery life in our test which is good and what you'd expect it also has 34 gigs of on-board storage which is double what you previously got which is about 16 plus the Scott all the ports you're looking for it's got USB to USB 3 it also has hdmi and it has an SD card slot the SD card slot is what it's all about because you can pop in one and for not a lot of money you can expand your storage not that you'd necessarily need it much because Google Drive is getting much better at cloud storage management and you get a hundred gigs for two years with the purchase of this and it's really easy to find cheap cloud storage now in a lot of places so you can use google drive and it feels like a natural extension of your onboard storage but that brings up the point that a Chromebook still is best used when connected on line it's got 802 11 n Wi-Fi you know there are times you may not be online this cash is for offline use but I wouldn't trust that in the same way that I would with a tablet or with an offline laptop but if you're looking for something this is 299 with a touch screen and you'll hear assigning that price that can be a household laptop like device that allows you to basically do everything you'd want to do and have touch for when you need it may be for apps maybe just because you like the feeling of browsing like that for future evolving and chrome and you're not paying up too much for it that's why I like the 720p it's not a game changer but it's probably the best full-featured Chromebook that feels good to type on that I've seen I'm Scott Stein and that's the acer c720p chromebook pretty good value pic in a relatively full feature of Chromebook