26 MAR

Chrome OS tablets are official—Meet the Acer Chromebook Tab 10

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Chrome OS tablets have been expected for years, and today Acer and Google are finally teaming up to launch the first ever Chrome tablet: the Chromebook Tab 10. It’s a pretty standard budget tablet hardware with Chrome OS loaded on it. There’s no keyboard, just a touch screen and a passive Wacom stylus.

Google has a blog post pitching the device as a new piece of education hardware. Chrome OS notebooks dominate in the education sector, and this tablet easily plugs into that ecosystem with identical apps and security configurations. The lack of a keyboard will mean typing out long homework assignments won’t be ideal, though. Tomorrow, Apple has an education-focused event where it is widely expected to announce a cheaper iPad, and it seems like Google is trying to steal some of educators’ attention with this announcement.

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