Microsoft’s Chromebook rival is coming at $199 made by HP

At such a low price, Google’s Chromebooks have been a nightmare to Microsoft. The Chromebooks are quite cheap with exceptional performance and are giving a tough time to Windows laptops. Dubbed HP Steam 14, a Windows 8.1 device is tipped to carry a tag of $199 when launched.  

The notebook is rumoured to be powered by an AMD “Mullins” A4 Micro-6400T quad-core SoC and 2 GB of RAM with an integrated Radeon R3 GPU. The architecture of the chipset features a heat sink, without a built-in fan, showed an image that was leaked. The device will be available with a 14 inch display along with 1366x768 pixels resolution. 

It will have 32 GB and 64 GB variants. While none of this is official yet, the laptop is also expected to have USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports along with support for HDMI as well. It has Beats Audio enhancement and consists of four speakers. 

In addition, the HP Stream Notebook 14 1.75 kg heavy has a 32 watt-hours or large 2960mAh battery. The notebook will also come in the colors silver, green and purple on the market, the cover has one type of each. The buyer will also receive for a period of two years, all 100 gigabytes of storage space with Microsoft's cloud service OneDrive - just as it does in the Google Chromebooks. 

Anyone looking for a great entry-level notebook, gets here probably a pretty attractive offer, to which shortly certainly likely to join tens of other models. So stay tuned for further updates. 

Source: MobileGeeks

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Asus launches Chromebox in India

Asus on Wednesday launched its Chromebox in India. All three versions of the box will be available and are priced from `21,000 going up to `58,000 for the top-end model. 

Chromebox is a compact home or office computer running Chrome OS. On the hardware front ASUS has gone with Intel’s Haswell processors on all three variants, starting from the Celeron 2955U SKU for the base model right up to the Core i7-4600U for the top model. Of the three SKUs the base model does not support 4K but the other two do. All three models come with Google's suite of apps and services, and will receive constant automatic updates. 

Mr. Levis Su – Managing Director, ASUS (India) & Regional Director – South Asia & Middle East, ASUS and Mr. Vinay Shetty – Country Head – Component Business, ASUS (India) pose with the ASUS Chromebox during the launch event

Buyers get 100GB of Google Drive space for two years, and can sync their files, browser sessions and passwords across ChromeOS and the Chrome browser on Android, Windows, iOS and OS X. 

On the connectivity front, the Asus Chromebox is endowed with 802.11 Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, DisplayPort, and four USB 3.0 ports. That’s a healthy selection of ports, and there’s a card reader too. 

Asus offers optional wired or wireless keyboard and mouse packages. The Core i7 model is suitable for businesses. The optional accessories kit for meetings includes an HD webcam, remote control and microphone/speaker unit. 

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