If you’re a student anywhere between grade school and grad school, your laptop is like an appendage. It’s an on-the-go, always-on schoolwork and entertainment center. It gets stuffed into your bag in the morning, yanked out during class and propped up on your pillow at night. And that’s not to mention the hours of streaming and hundreds of open tabs. Your laptop takes a beating, and naturally slows down with age.
Because tech moves fast these days, even a device that’s just a few years old is ripe for replacement. Now, just in time for back to school, you can recycle your old laptop in-store at Best Buy and take $50 off a brand-new, AI-powered Chromebook Plus from top brands like HP, Samsung and Acer.
Chromebook Plus is the ideal laptop for students
Google’s Chromebooks have become the go-to school laptops for good reason. They’re so simple to use that even elementary school students can find their way around them and learn how to use apps for checking email, composing documents and creating presentations. With all-day battery life, fast startup and near imperviousness to viruses and other security vulnerabilities, they are an excellent choice for students of all ages.
Now, with the power of Google’s Gemini AI, Chromebook Plus is ready to set a new standard for productivity and creativity. Gemini is accessible right from the Chromebook Plus’s home screen. Start a chat to access your personal idea generation companion. Open pictures in Google Photo and Magic Editor can help you edit, resize, or reposition objects in your photos. Gemini can help you write, offering suggestions for how to improve your prose and even translate it into other languages using Live Translate.
Chromebook Plus options from top brands like HP, Samsung and Acer
If you’re looking for the right balance of power and price, HP’s 15.6″ Full HD Chromebook Plus Laptop with Google AI is a great place to start. Powered by Intel Core i3 and boasting 8GB of memory, there’s very little this machine can’t do. It comes packed with Google Apps built in, and you’ll love the anti-glare full HD IPS display for easy viewing from all angles, even when you’re working outside.
Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus packs a 15.6″ AMOLED display, Intel Core 3 chip, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage. Weighing just 2.58 pounds and only 11.8mm thick, it’s Samsung’s thinnest and lightest Chromebook Plus. But be deceived by its slight form factor: it has all the connectivity you need with its two USB-C, USB 3.2 Type-A, HDMI, microSD slot and 3.5mm headphone/mic jack. With 13 hours of battery life, you’ll be running Google AI wherever life takes you.
For something different, consider Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 714. This 2-in-1 boasts a 14″ antimicrobial Gorilla Glass touch display, making it a durable choice as a laptop and a tablet. Of course, it comes packed with Google apps and the power to run them with its Intel Core Ultra 5 processor, and up to 10 hours of battery life. Like some of the other Chromebook Plus models mentioned above, it’s made from recycled materials.
So dig that old broken down laptop out of the closet, head to your nearest Best Buy to recycle it, and save $50 on a new Chromebook Plus.
