By Jacob Grana
Introduction and design
The Asus C202, with its giant keyboard font and rubber bumpers, may look like an alphabet-singing My First Laptop. But, this Chromebook is no fragile toy.
Designed with the student in mind, the Asus C202 is built to weather all types of day-to-day adversity, be it backpack G-forces, clumsy adolescent hands or careless tosses into the school’s laptop cart.
Fortunately, parents won’t have to bust open their piggy banks to pay for the C202. At $229 (about £159, AU$316) the C202 is cheaper than other education-oriented Chromebooks, like the touchscreen Dell Chromebook 11 ($329, £210, AU$380), and the Acer Chromebook 11 C740 ($279, £180, AU$379).
Design
If the C202 were to channel a spirit animal, it would be the tortoise. It may run slow, but it takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Like the tortoise, the C202’s main line of defense is a rigid shell: dimpled plastic covers the laptop’s lid and base. Additional shielding – thick, midnight blue rubber bumpers – runs along the C202’s edges.
All this armor does not make for an elegant profile, but it does provide a good degree of ding, dent and drop resistance. According to Asus’s tests, the C202 …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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