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If you were looking for another reason to buy a Chromebook, Google just provided a big one: The company is boosting the included Google Drive storage capacity by a factor of five. Instead of getting 200 GB of cloud capacity with a Chrome OS laptop, you’ll now get 1 TB for two years with a new Chromebook purchase. That’s the same amount of storage I got with my $1,450 Chromebook Pixel last year but now it comes with Chromebooks that start as low as $199. Google says you’ll need to redeem the Drive offer by January 1, 2015 to quality for the increased capacity.