Google at the British Education and Training
Technology (BETT) Show in London introduced Acer Chromebook Spin 11 (R751T) and
Asus Chromebook C213 for education. Both these have a 11.6 inch (1366 × 768)
touchscreen display. The Acer Chromebook Spin 11 also has military grade
durability (U.S. MIL-STD 810G compliant) and comes with a stylus powered by
Wacom EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) technology.
Google is bringing support for handwriting recognition
to Chrome OS to support pen input, using machine learning to improve text
recognition. Apps like Google Keep will
also support optical character recognition so that you can search for notes
without first converting handwriting to text.
The Acer Chromebook Spin 11 R751T has two Acer HD
wide view HDR webcams, including a 1MP camera above the screen and a 5MP camera
above the keyboard, which can be used in tablet mode.
It comes in two models with Intel Celeron N3350
dual-core or Celeron N3450 quad-core processor, 4GB or 8GB of RAM and 32GB to
64GB eMMC flash storage options. It has two USB 3.1 Type-C ports, WiFi
802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, two USB Type-A 3.0 ports and a microSD card slot.
Detailed specifications for Asus Chromebook C213 are not known yet.
Both the Acer Chromebook Spin 11 and the Asus
Chromebook C213 will be arriving late spring. No details about the pricing yet.
