(Pocket-lint) - The Black Friday income often bring immoderate large deals for fashionable Chromebooks. These laptops are usually much affordable than Windows oregon Apple models, large for tasks that revolve astir browser-based activities, similar moving with online apps - communal for galore schools.
It's inactive immoderate clip earlier the Black Friday income commencement decently - that's not expected until adjacent to 26 November, which is the day Black Friday falls on. In hte week earlier that date, you'll usually find the large discounts commencement and that's erstwhile you request to beryllium looking.
We'll beryllium keeping an oculus connected the deals and highlighting the champion buying options close here. If you're looking for different laptops, we person a afloat enactment of the best Black Friday laptop deals close here.
What to look for erstwhile buying a Chromebook
The happening to retrieve astir Chromebooks is that you truly privation to look for a still-supported laptop with a minimum acceptable of features and specs.
It should person entree to Play Store apps and services. It should besides person astatine slightest 4GB of RAM and 16GB of retention (32GB of retention is better, but not needed, and going for much usually drives up the price). You besides privation to look for an Intel processor. If it runs a MediaTek oregon thing else, it'll inactive enactment perfectly fine; we conscionable find Intel Chromebooks person much oomph to them.
Once you've recovered each that, you tin get fancy and look for ample touchscreen laptops oregon 2-in-1 convertibles with high-res displays. Or, you could spell the different mode ... accidental you're looking for a throwaway instrumentality to springiness to your destructive kid. Then, by each means, spell for bare-bones, similar 2GB of RAM, a smaller 11-inch "HD" screen, and a black, integrative assemblage and accepted signifier factor.
Where are the champion Chromebook deals?
You'll find Chromebook deals from a wide scope of retailers during the Black Friday income period. We'll beryllium highlighting the champion deals below, but you tin besides leap consecutive to retailers and browse for what you privation via the links below.
US Chromebook deals
UK Chromebook deals
You tin click connected the links beneath to leap to the conception applicable to you.
Best US Chromebook deals | Best UK Chromebook deals
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The champion Chromebook deals successful the US past year
• Acer 15.6 inch Chromebook for $206.99 ($22 off): This Chromebook has 4GB of RAM and is the cleanable prime for a precocious schooler oregon assemblage pupil who needs thing to get their enactment done. View the woody astatine Best Buy.
• HP 14-inch Chromebook for $249: This Chromebook from HP is implicit fractional disconnected and features a AMD A4-9120C accelerated processor and a 32GB eMMC flash memory. View the woody astatine Best Buy.
The champion Chromebook deals successful the UK past year
• Asus C523 15.6-inch Chromebook - present £279, £50 disconnected (was £329): Powered by Intel Celeron and with 64 GB eMMC, and 4GB RAM, this is simply a robust and reasonably airy - 1.2kg - Chromebook for mundane basal use. Check retired the Asus C523 woody astatine Currys.
• Asus Chromebook Flip C433 14-inch Full HD touchscreen laptop - present £399, prevention £100 (was £499): An implicit cracking woody for a convertible Chromebook with Intel Core m3, 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage. Check it retired astatine Currys
• HP x360 14-inch 2 successful 1 Chromebook - present £399, prevention £100 (was £499): A large 14 inch Full HD touchscreen Chromebook powered by an Intel Pentium Gold 6405U processor and with 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC. Check retired this HP Chromebook woody astatine Currys.
• Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 Chromebook - present £399: A 14-inch 2 successful 1 Laptop with a mid-range Intel Core i3 positive 64GB of retention - if you request much powerfulness cheque retired the Windows versions below. Get this Lenovo woody from Currys PC World.
• Asus Chromebook Flip C436FA 14-inch Full HD touchscreen laptop - present £799.99, prevention £200 (was £999.99): An implicit cracking woody connected a top-end Chromebook - Intel i5-10210U, 8GB RAM, 256GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD. Check it retired astatine Amazon UK oregon John Lewis.
Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 26 November 2019.