Acer has certainly been making headlines lately. Just a little over a week ago they announced the new Acer Chromebook 13 CB5. The first Chromebook to bring the new NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor to a Chromebook and to consumers. Granted, the device is only up for pre-orders right now, but at least it is coming. Today Acer has announced another device in the Chrome OS line, but this time not a Chromebook. Instead, they have announced a new Chromebox line dubbed the CXI series.
“The Acer Chromebook CXI is an excellent fit for schools and any other institution or business where conserving costs and space are high priorities,†said Simon Hwang, president of Acer Stationary Computing and Display Business Group. “Due to the ease of management, the Chromebox can significantly reduce technical support and consequently lower the total cost of ownership.â€
On a hardware standpoint the Chromebox CXI series packs an Intel Celeron 2957U processor, that is the Haswell version. As for RAM, you have that choice at purchase with either 2GB or 4GB. Beyond that choice, everything else remains identical with a 16GB SSD, 4X USB 3.0 ports (two of which can be powered off to just charge phones and tablets), SD card reader, WI-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 4.o, A HDMI and a DisplayPort. Yes, that last bit does mean that you can run a dual display setup.
Price wise you are looking at spending $179.99 for the 2GB RAM variant an $219.99 for the 4GB RAM variant. Feel free to start saving now as neither of these are available just yet. Acer pegs them for release ‘late next month’. So, sometime in late September.
Source: AcerÂ
