Acer’s new Chromebook plus spin 514The company’s first laptop to use the IFA 2025 in Berlin, ARM-based MediaTek Commono Ultra 910 is the company’s first laptop. Was used in that chip Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 This was launched before this summer, and it was important to give outstanding performance and marathon battery life in that fan laptop. I dubbed Lenovo “The New King of Chrombook”, and it dubbed $ 699.99 Acer, which launches this month, appears as a solid option – especially if you like a touchscreen convertible and do not feel like listening to a fan on the occasion.
Acer sent me the new Chromebook Plus Spin 514 for initial testing, and after some brief hands I can already tell that the battery life is likely to be one of the strength of the Companio Ultra again. The IPS performance options with 1920 x 1200 or 2880 x 1800 resolution are not hanging with the holes of OLED panels in Lenovo. But the draw of Acer is its Gorilla Glass-Over 14-inch touchscreen, which is accompanied by support for USI 2.0 stylus (which are sold separately), You allow it to use it as a tablet, attract it, or take handwritten notes.
He, and it has more, sharp ports, more than Lenovo. The Chromebook Plus Spin 514 has two 10GBPS USB-C ports with display and power delivery, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports and 3.5mm audio jack. The Acer also has a 70Wh battery compared to Lenovo’s 60Wh, and like Lenovo it comes up to Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, up to 16GB up to RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage. For a webcam, it offers either 1080p or 5-megapixel options.
However, what does not have Acer have a side-mounted power button. Which is a bit strange on 2 -in -1, because if it falls asleep in tablet mode you have to reach the keyboard deck for the power button. Its up-firing speakers are also on the keyboard deck, so in tent mode or tablet mode you are already transferred to a short, thin-sounding speaker. away from you.
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