The HP Chromebook x2 11 sale is back: Down to $349 from $599

As I said in my review of the HP Chromebook x2 11, don’t buy it for the full retail price of $599. On sale, which is often, it’s a much better value. And now you can pick up the detachable Chrome OS tablet on sale for $349. Best Buy has dropped the price again for an HP Chromebook x2 11 sale.

This price is a bit more realistic for with the HP Chromebook x2 11 sale, which includes a digital pen, detachable keyboard, and removable back cover with a kickstand.

(Update: Read my full review of the HP Chromebook X2 11 here and be sure to compare it to the $499 Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook that I also recently reviewed.)

I say that because nearly the same internals can be had for $399 in the Acer Chromebook Spin 513. Both the Acer and the HP are powered by a first-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c processor. If you’re curious about the performance experience on such a device, read my review of the LTE version of the Acer Chromebook Spin 513.

Like the HP that’s on sale, it comes with 8 GB of memory but has double the storage capacity of 128 GB. However, that extra eMMC storage isn’t likely to impact the overall device performance if you’re comparing.

For $349, you’re getting a really nice display. The HP Chromebook x2 11 has an 11-inch IPS touch panel with 2160 x 1440 resolution. So you pixel-peepers out there shouldn’t easily see individual pixels. It also has a fingerprint sensor for simple login and authentication, which is handy.

Unlike the LTE-enabled Spin 513 I reviewed, this configuration of the HP is WiFi-only. And because the Qualcomm chipset is two years old, you’re only getting WiFi 5. If you don’t have a newer WiFi 6 router, you shouldn’t care. Although if you do upgrade your router in the future, you won’t see a huge uplift on the HP.

About the author

Kevin C. Tofel has covered technology since 2004. He's used ChromeOS since Google debuted the CR-48 in 2010, reviewing dozens of Chromebooks since then. He worked for Google's Chrome Enterprise team from 2016 to 2017, supporting the launch of Android app support. In his free time, he uses Chromebooks to learn software engineering at Launch School. In 2019, Kevin joined the CS Curriculum Committee at his local community college.