What happens when you take a thin and light Windows PC and transform it into a Chromebook? Here are 2 examples of laptops from HP and Lenovo that have been morphed into Chromebooks. Both replaced an Intel Core i3 CPU with a Celeron CPU, the standard HDD with a 16GB SDD and Windows with Chrome OS. HP made some additional changes and removed 2GB of RAM and replaced the 2 USB 3.0 ports with USB 2.0 ports.
The price dropped from $ 590 to $ 330 for the HP laptop and from $ 620 to $ 430 for the Lenovo laptop. The less expensive Intel CPU and the free Chrome OS license help manufacturers save about $ 200.
