Hewlett-Packard to Sell First Chromebook Laptop Using Google

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Hewlett-Packard Co. will start selling its first Chromebook laptop, entering the market for low-priced portable computers running an operating system from Google Inc. that emphasizes working on the Web.

The HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook has a 14-inch screen, 16-gigabyte solid-state drive and Intel Corp. processor. It also comes with 100 gigabytes of free storage on the online Google Drive service for two years, which ordinarily costs about $120. The laptop goes on sale today in the U.S., with a starting price of about $330, the company said in a statementBloomberg Terminal.