Michael Larabel from Phoronix installed Ubuntu 13.10 on a $200 Acer C720 Chromebook recently, and found that the $200 laptop was able to hold its own against machines with much higher price tags.

TAIPEI, June 2 (Reuters) - Acer Inc <2353.TW>, the world's No. 3 PC brand, plans to sell netbook PCs that run on Google's Android operating system, posing a potential threat to Microsoft's Windows.