The webcam is a cheap item with old-school 720p instead of 1080p resolution.

Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 handle wireless connections. You'll find a power button and volume rocker on the right edge. You'll also find a single USB 3.2 Type-A port on its left, along with an audio jack and a microSD card slot. If you want to plug in an external monitor, you'll need a DisplayPort adapter for one of the two USB 3.2 Type-C ports (one on each side, either accommodating the AC adapter). The Spin 513 lands on our Chromebook 'B' list rather than the 'A' list because it has no HDMI port. True to its price, you will find no fingerprint reader here, and the webcam lacks a privacy shutter. The almost-square chassis is slim and attractive but I found a tad more flex than I like when grasping the screen corners or pressing the keyboard deck. The 16:10 aspect ratio of the Spin 714 gives it a slightly different footprint-0.71 by 12.3 by 8.8 inches-and ups its weight to 3.1 pounds. While its 3:2 aspect ratio isn't ideal for viewing videos, it is excellent for working with word processors or browsing webpages by minimizing scrolling.Įquipped with an aluminum lid and bottom in a dark hue Acer calls Titanium Gray, the Spin 514 measures 0.64 by 11.8 by 9.3 inches and weighs 2.8 pounds. The Corning Gorilla Glass touch screen is a 13.5-inch IPS panel with a 2,256-by-1,504-pixel resolution. The Spin 513 teams the new CPU with 8GB of memory and 128GB of eMMC storage. The 6-nanometer chip combines four 3.0GHz Cortex A78 cores-the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c in models like the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook uses older Cortex A77 architecture-with four Cortex A55 efficient cores plus five-core Mali-G57 integrated graphics.

Of course, this Acer's Kompanio 1380 claims to be the peppiest yet. Years of testing have taught us that Chromebooks with ARM processors, while adequate, aren't as quick as their x86 rivals.

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