We should see a lot of new Chromebooks arrive in 2015

Nov 7, 2014 10:35 GMT  ·  By

You might remember that not so long ago we told you that you should be expecting new Dell, ASUS and Lenovo Chromebooks to arrive on the market.

This was good news for Chrome OS enthusiasts, but we weren't given an exact timeline for when we could expect new models to make a debut.

Lenovo low-cost Chromebooks arriving in 2015

Now, a new report from DigiTimes is shedding some light on the matter. According to information coming from Taiwan-based supply chain networks, Lenovo is getting ready to launch two Chromebook models that will arrive with extremely low price tags in early 2015.

This is because the two new Chromebooks will be powered by low-cost CPUs provided by Rockchip. On top of that, Rockchip will be in charge of integrating the two products in the supply chain.

The new information does not come as a surprise. After all, we already told you that Rockchip-enabled Chromebooks would come to the market in 2015 and the first model was already spotted at Computex 2014, a few months ago.

We’re not told anything else about the specifications of the new laptops, but we can assume they will deliver the usual 1366 x 768 pixel resolution on 11.6-inch panels.

On the plus side of things, the sources mention that the two Chromebooks will be marketed for a sub-$170 / €137 price. So if you were thinking of purchasing a Chromebook, you might want to hold off a few months.

Lenovo Chromebooks business is expected to increase in 2015

Putting things into perspective, Lenovo is expected to ship a total of 1.5 million Chromebooks in 2015, which constitutes a whopping increase of over 212% compared to the previous year.

While we wait for the super-cheap Chromebooks from Lenovo, we are taking the opportunity to remind you that the world’s largest PC vendor currently sells a few Chrome OS laptops.

The latest dates back to May and goes by the name of N20P. It’s a bit of an atypical Chromebook given the fact that it comes with a hinge that allows the display to be bent half backwards.

The laptop has a traditional 11.6-inch LCD display and sucks power from an Intel Celeron central processing unit fitted with 4GB of RAM and backed up by the standard 16GB of internal storage. It’s pretty unlikely that the Rockchip Chromebooks will offer 4GB of RAM, so we should expect 2GB instead.

You can pick up the Lenovo N20P for $329 / €329, which isn’t exactly super affordable as the upcoming new models will be.