Acer’s new high-end Chromebooks fill hole in Google’s enterprise push


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  • Thursday, 24 May 2018

A shop attendant sits in an Acer booth in a computer mall in Taipei, March 19, 2013. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang/Files

SAN FRANCISCO: Acer Inc unveiled two high-end laptops running Google's Chrome OS on May 23 as the companies take their first big stab at getting Chromebooks into businesses after capturing the US education market.

The Taiwanese computer maker, which IDC estimates was the No. 2 Chromebook vendor in the United States last year, outfitted its new line with aluminum bodies and Intel Corp's top-flight 8th Generation processors.

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