An anonymous reader shares a report by The Verge:HP today announced the Chromebook 11 G5, the first of the company’s Chrome OS laptops in the 11-inch range to include a touchscreen display. The new Chromebook starts at $189 and will go on sale through HP’s channel partners in July. It will be more widely available in stores this October. The base model of the Chromebook 11 G5 has a 11.6-inch screen with a sub-HD display (there will be an option for an HD IPS touchscreen panel with Gorilla Glass), weighs 2.51 pounds, and comes with a 1.6gHz Intel Celeron N3060 — a somewhat common processor for low- to mid-range Chromebooks. HP claims it will be powerful enough to handle video calls and playback, and that it “speeds through spreadsheets,” which is the most amazingly modest goal I can imagine for a Chromebook. Of course that limited performance, coupled with Chrome OS’s limited feature set, gives the Chromebook 11 G5 up to 11 solid hours of battery life, according to HP.

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Source: Slashdot – HP Adds a Touchscreen To Its 11-inch Chromebook Lineup