Deal | Asus 14-inch Chromebook with AMD Ryzen APU now 44% off at Best Buy

Need an affordable buy capable laptop for school, work, or web projects? You may want to check out Asus' 14-inch Chromebook with an AMD Ryzen 3 7320C, on sale at Best Buy for 44% off its retail price. 

This Asus Chromebook has a 14-inch 1920x1080 touchscreen and can be folded backward for use as a tablet. It's powered by AMD's Ryzen 3 7320C APU, which has four Zen 2 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz with a 4.1 GHz single-core boost. All four cores are hyperthreaded for eight total threads.

Graphics are handled by an integrated AMD Radeon 610M, which has two RDNA 2 CUs and 128 shaders. The GPU is clocked at 1.9 GHz. Considering Chrome OS's lightweight demands, the laptop should fly through tasks with ease.

The Chromebook also packs 8 GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD, which are quite high specs for a Chromebook. It should be noted that the Chromebook has an SSD for storage instead of the far more common (and significantly slower) eMMC. (The Best Buy page doesn't mention whether the SSD operates at SATA or PCIe speeds.)

Ports include two USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 ports (both with PD and DisplayPort support), a single HDMI port, one USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 ports, a headphone jack, and a microSD card slot.

This Chromebook retails at a dollar shy of US$500, but Best Buy has slashed the price by 44% down to $279. You can buy the Asus Chromebook at Best Buy here.