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September 2014

Soon there will be a Chromebook with 192 cores and yet delivering 11-13 hours of battery life due to the efficient, fanless, and low wattage CPU. Some of you may quickly figured out that I am referring to the Acer Chromebook 13 powered by NVIDIA Tegra K1. With popular gaming engines being converted to WebGL such as Unreal Engine 4, this development represents an exciting new frontier for Chromebooks. Naturally the possibilities extends much more than gaming as seen in the video at NVIDIA. It is a buy for early adopters.

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