


Gateway, which has an own laptop line-up, has also belonged to the Acer Group since 2007. There are dozens of Acer laptop reviews per month, the ratings are average (as of 2016). While Acer still had the third largest global market share in the notebook segment in 2008, it ranked 6th in 2016 with a market share of 6% after they had continuously lost market shares. and Packard Bell also belong to the Group and sell their own laptops. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors and televisions. Nowadays, often 15 inch laptops weigh as much.Īcer: The company was founded under the name of Multitech in Taiwan in 1976 and renamed to Acer or Acer Group in 1987. In former time,s this weight was typical for big tablets, small subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 10-11 inch display-diagonal. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List. Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. The biggest variety of subnotebooks is represented with this size. For all three types, this size is quite large. R3 5125C: Mobile dual core APU using Zen 3 cores clocked at 3 GHz and a Vega graphics card with 3 CUs clocked at up to 1200 MHz. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.Ībove all, this display size is used for subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards. Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. I do hope that Acer can remedy the flimsy chassis as it may put people off using this as a portable and hybrid working device, which is supposed to be its primary use case.ĪMD Vega 3: Integrated graphics card of the Ryzen APUs based on the Vega architecture with 3 CUs (= 192 shaders) and a clock of up to 1200 MHz. Other than my issue with Netflix – which I assume will be ironed out before the product’s official release – I liked the screen and felt that it gave me a crisp and clear image while I was watching YouTube. While not as high end as the Chromebook Spin 714, it should be more than capable of browsing the web, sending emails and writing up documents.

The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 looks to be a very reasonably priced laptop that would work well for anyone who is currently in school or after a simple productivity device. Hands on: Acer Chromebook Spin 514 Review
