Chromebook

2022 - 8 - 18

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First impressions of the 2022 Acer Chromebook Spin 714 (About Chromebooks)

Since I just reviewed another 12th gen Intel Chromebook, the HP Elite Dragonfly, I have some comparison thoughts sprinkled throughout my first impressions.

Power is on the left and volume is on the right. - I love that Acer split up the power and volume buttons. And this is definitely overkill for someone who just needs to browse the web a few hours a day, run an Android app or two, and doesn’t I’ve only performed a few Octane benchmark tests on the Spin 714 at this point. The star of the show here is the 12th gen Intel chipset inside this Chromebook. There’s a fair amount of light-bleed under the keys, but I can say the same about the HP. The aspect ratio of the display is different from the 3:2 on the 713 as well; the Spin 714 uses a 16:10 panel. The typing experience has been solid as the keys are well spaced and sized, and have a good amount of travel. Obviously, you’re not getting the haptic trackpad of the HP on the Acer. Right now the only nitpick I have is the 340 nit brightness of the screen. [my 2018 Acer Chromebook Spin 13](https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/why-im-still-using-a-chromebook-from-2018-as-my-daily-driver/) that the Spin 714 is replacing, it’s a step up. [my money where my mouth is](https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/why-the-new-acer-chromebook-spin-714-will-be-my-next-purchase/) and picked up the 2022 Acer Chromebook Spin 714 earlier this week.

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The all-new AMD Ryzen 5000 Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is now ... (Chrome Unboxed)

Nearly five months later, the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 has quietly appeared at Best Buy and it looks to be priced to sell.

The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is available from Best Buy now for only $549 and you can have one in hand by the weekend if you’re interested. The Chromebook Spin 514 features an aluminum lid and bottom, backlit keys, and a FullHD webcam. Best Buy has the Spin 514 listed for $549 and that’s a big deal. This new chip from AMD may not be a direct competitor to the latest Intel devices but the sub-six hundred dollar price tag makes it an affordable alternative to the new generation of flagship Chromebooks that are quickly pushing price tags up to $800 or more. Powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 from the 5000-series processor family, the Best Buy model comes bearing a 14-inch FullHD IPS touch display, 8GB of RAM, and a very respectable 128GB of eMMC storage. Nearly five months later, the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 has quietly appeared at Best Buy and it looks to be priced to sell.

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Review: HP's Elite Dragonfly Chromebook is the cream of the ... (Ars Technica)

The laptop comes dressed like some of HP's most coveted business machines and with up to a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU with Intel vPro support. Performance and ...

[features](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/chrome-os-update-automatically-brings-photos-from-android-to-your-chromebook/) that could put it [more on par](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/steam-on-chromebooks-is-ready-for-testing-comes-with-steep-requirements/) with macOS and Windows. 13.5-inch 1920 x 1280 IPS touchscreen The laptop comes dressed like some of HP's most coveted business machines and with up to a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU with Intel vPro support. Price (MSRP) vPro machines are supposed to use identical silicon across units for as long as the device is sold. Of course, there are still Chromebooks available for a few hundred dollars, but with a growing interest in pushing Chromebooks as fleet-ready enterprise machines, 13.5-inch 2256 x 1504 IPS touchscreen vPro support helps sell machines to IT departments, as it enables [HP's new Elite Dragonfly Chromebook](https://tidd.ly/3A6fkn9) represents a ChromeOS device pushed to the limits, from its appearance to its components. 8GB LPDDR4-4266 Intel Core i5-1245U vPro Intel Core i7-1265U vPro

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