That sounds like a decent number for a Windows PC, but it's fairly bad for a Chromebook. I was able to get a maximum of around 7 hours of use during my testing period. Either way, I struggled mightily to get the 10 hours of use that Acer advertises on the specs page. This could be because of the poorly calibrated battery gauge I just mentioned, or perhaps because I needed to run on maximum brightness due to the dim display. In the battery life department the Spin 514 is less impressive. Often the battery percentage would jump by 5% at a time, not something you really want to see while you're working on the road. Unfortunately, the Spin 514 does still suffer from some of the Ryzen-specific bugs I noticed on the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook.Ĭertain video players still freeze and crash to a black screen (perhaps this just needs a Chrome OS update to fix) and the battery percentage seems poorly calibrated as well. The Ryzen 5 processor was up to the task in general and I rarely noticed the fans kick in. Of course I enjoy running Linux apps on my Chromebook as well, using GIMP and Kdenlive for some light photo and video editing. Acer did not have any input in any part of this review.

Discrete H1 Trusted Platform Module (TPM) solution for ChromebookĪbout this review: I received the Spin 514 model with 8GB RAM, 128 GB eMMc storage, and the Ryzen 5 processor from Acer for testing.

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