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Fredrik Linnander is a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist from Sweden. After playing around with the new Haswell based Acer C720 Chromebook for a while he posted a few interesting things on Google Plus.

Acer C720 will have 5 different variants. One of them will have an optional touch screen

Other models include 2GB RAM with 16GB SSD

and a 4GB RAM model with 32GB SSD

Here is the spec sheet (touch screen is not mentioned)

A video Q&A session with Acer.

RAM or Storage cannot be upgraded (You could easily add additional RAM or Storage in previous Acer Chromebook models)

Moving Away from Cheap?

According to Fredrik Linnander, Acer is planning to make a small change in the strategy. These new Chromebooks may not be as cheap as the previous models. “The most expensive would be ~545 USD” he says.

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