A few hardware-acceleration bugs with the Radeon graphics and some battery inconsistencies are lurking in the corners if you look for them, but give it a few more Chrome OS updates and I'll bet things are all fixed on this front, just as they were with the launch-day battery issues on the Galaxy Chromebook and ASUS Chromebook C436. Just like the Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook, the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is one of the first Chromebooks using Ryzen 3000-series APUs, and so there's still a little more optimization and fine-tuning to be done here. Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central (Image credit: Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central)

Acer Chromebook Spin 514 What I don't like

Considering the price, I can't hold this against Acer, but I'm hopeful that in the next year or two manufacturers can make 300-400-nit screens the standard instead of 250. Speaking of brightness, the screen here is 250 nits, same as most Chromebooks on the market, which means that you can use it outside in the shade, but it's not going to be legible in full sunshine. AMD Ryzen 3000 C-Series Mobile Processorsīattery here is rated for 10 hours on a single charge, and I usually got between 7-9 hours, so 10 hours seems doable if you keep the brightness down and stay close to the router.

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