Amazon offers the ASUS Chromebook 13-Inch HD with Gigabit WiFi, 32GB Storage & 4GB RAM (Model B00JI9HISQ) for $229 with free shipping. That’s $100 off for this recently released double RAM and double local storage configuration. Features:

• 10 Hours Incredible Battery Life.
• Gigabit Dual-Band 802.11AC ultra-fast Wi-Fi.
• Intel Dual-Core 2.16 GHz Processor with 4 GB RAM.
• 13.3″ HD LED Display. HD Webcam.
• USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, SD Card Reader, & Bluetooth 4.0.
• 32 GB local flash storage, 1TB Google Drive storage for 2 years (with recent offer).

OK with 2GB RAM, 16GB storage and Green on White? $180 please.

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Rakuten is offering a number of storage deals today that are all time lows if you check out with MasterPass:

The Seagate 5TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for $147.99. When you enter the code: MP30 and checkout with MasterPass the price drops to only $117.99 shipped. That’s $32 less than Amazon and the lowest we’ve seen.

Over 3,000 Amazon customers gave it 4 out of 5 stars and left great reviews.

Also at Rakuten, is the Crucial MX100 Series 256GB 2.5″ Serial ATA 6Gb/s SSD for $112.99. The code: MP30 and checkout with MasterPass drops the price to only $82.99 shipped. That’s $30 off the regular price and the lowest we’ve seen (including the week of Black Friday). Features include: a sequential write of : 300/500MB/s and a sequential read of: 550MB/s

Lastly, using the same code as listed above and checking out with MasterPass, you can get the SanDisk Extreme PRO 960GB Serial ATA 6Gb/s Internal SSD for only $419.99 shipped. It features read speeds of up to 550MB/s and write speeds of up to 515 MB/s. The coupon expires December 17th. expand full story

Google just announced a free update of your Google Drive to a whopping 1TB of data with the purchase of a Chromebook. That’s normally priced out at $9.99/month over 24 months so its value is about $240 over the 2 years. What’s kind of cool about this is you can purchase a Chromebook for much less than $240. Here are your best options from around the web.

Update 2: Amazon drops the Acer Chromebook C720 to just $149.99 shipped. 

 

 

Update: Amazon takes $51 off the Acer 13 CB5-311-T9B0 Chromebook (13.3-inch Full HD, NVIDIA Tegra K1, 2GB) knocking it down to $249 shipped. This is basically as burly as it gets for an ARM Chromebook. 11 hours of battery, 192 GPU cores HD display. They also knock $20 off the C720 bringing it down to lowest ever $179.99 shipped. It has Haswell CPU, HDMI out and 8.5 hour battery.

Amazon has a great lineup of Chromebooks including ones with Touch displays with a few standouts now available.

The ASUS C300MA-DB01 Chromebook 13-inch HD with Gigabit Wifi 2GB RAM/16GB storage is $50 off at $199 shipped.  Features:

• 10 Hours Incredible Battery Life.
• Gigabit Dual-Band 802.11AC ultra-fast Wi-Fi.
• Intel Dual-Core 2.16 GHz Processor with 2 GB RAM.
• 13.3″ HD LED Display. HD Webcam.
• USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, SD Card Reader, & Bluetooth 4.0.
• 16 GB local flash storage,

HP’s 14-Inch Chromebook free T-Mobile 4G (200mb/month forever) is $349

• Intel Celeron 2955U 1.4 GHz (2 MB Cache)
• 4 GB DDR3L SDRAM
• 16 GB Solid-State Drive
• 14.0-Inch Screen, Intel HD Graphics
• Chrome. Free 4g for life

Knock $50 off an HP Chromebook 11

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From 9to5Google: 

Amazon is hardly the first Cloud Storage provider to throw their hat in the special offer arena, in fact it seems like the cool thing to do these days. With that in mind, it’s worth noting that Amazon is throwing its hat into the proverbial free cloud storage offer with 50GB of storage with the purchase of over 100 carrier-branded Android smartphones.

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