Sure, there are very tiny expandable USB Type A drives, but a microSD slot is always a welcome addition to any Chromebook in my opinion. The only other port is a headphone/mic jack, so I was a bit bummed to realize there’s no discrete way to expand your storage on this Chromebook. There is a USB Type-C port on both sides that is USB 3.2 and an additional USB Type A port with USB 3.0. and only 16.7mm thick, there are very few bags that this Chromebook won’t fit into comfortably. The design is clearly Acer, with a boxy top and slightly-sloped sides that make it look thinner than it really is, but overall the 514 is thin, light, and highly portable. With an aluminum lid and plastic bottom, it feels sturdy, looks nice, and generally does what you ask it to do. It isn’t going to wow you with its looks or design and it really doesn’t need to. Let’s start with the obvious: there’s nothing out of the ordinary with this clamshell Chromebook. Let’s talk about why.Įnter to win an Acer Chromebook 514 Functional build quality And, much to my surprise, the Acer Chromebook 514 does that just about as well as any Chromebook I’ve tested. At this point in the Chromebook story, it really comes down to user experience, cutting the right corners, reasonable asking prices, and striking the perfect balance between all of those things while keeping the performance in a solid spot. They don’t all have every single feature, but we’ve seen enough great screens, great keyboards, and great chassis on enough devices at this point to not fall head over heels for the latest, newest thing. These days, most of the big features you want in a laptop are present in all sorts of Chromebooks. Anything new was cause for a bit of celebration, even if the Chromebook as a whole was a bit of a letdown. We’d get excited over things like IPS screens, backlit keyboards, glass trackpads and fingerprint scanners. Each new device that showed up was cause for excitement, mainly because we’d get some new feature of some sort that we didn’t have in a Chromebook before it. Just a few years ago, we only had a new Chromebook release every so often.
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