If you've been after a touch-enabled Chromebook and never fancied shelling out for Google's gorgeous but wallet-unfriendly Pixel, today's your lucky day.
Acer's C720P, which first reared its head at IDF, is the company's first Chromebook to sport a touchscreen display. It features an 11.6-inch HD LED panel (1366 x 768) and is powered by a fourth generation Intel Celeron 2955U CPU. The inclusion of Intel's Haswell chip gives it 'all day battery life', according to Acer - so long as your day lasts around 7.5 hours.
Price is right
The C720P may not offer the Chromebook Pixel's giddy screen resolution, but it doesn't have its heavyweight price tag (£1,029, or $1,679, or AU$1,678), either.
Acer has priced the model at €300 (around £250, or AU$448, or US$407), which lies in the same ballpark as HP's charming Chromebook 11 that retails for £230 (or rather, it did before it was pulled from the shelves due to overheating chargers).
As it's a Chromebook, you'll also get 100GB of Google Drive storage for two years before you'll be asked to stump up the cash for a yearly subscription. Acer has set a date of early December for its release.
We wouldn't be surprised to see more touch-enabled Chromebooks on the way after the latest developer test of Google Chrome revealed a slew of touchy feely functionality, including slide-to-navigate that takes you back and forward to web pages, in addition to an "enable pinch scale" option that points to pinch-and-zoom being added down the line.
