With the Chromebook Spin 514 Acer expands its wide range on Chromebooks for a new variant from 480 Euro. For the first time, Acer uses AMD processors in the Chromebook, including the Ryzen 7 APUs intended for this category 3700 C and Ryzen 5 3500. In addition to the comparatively fast CPUs, the Chromebook can be used with up to 16 GB of RAM and one 256 Equip GByte NVMe-SSD quite generously. The 14 – Inch display can be folded down thanks to 17 – degree hinge and the device can be used as a tablet.

The two top CPUs have four based on the Zen + architecture Cores and can process up to 8 threads in parallel. While the Ryzen 7 3700 C comes up to 4 GHz turbo clock and over 10 graphic units, there are 3500 C still 3.7 GHz and 8 graphics cores. Apart from the last letter, it differs nothing else from the Ryzen 3000 U processors intended for notebooks , AMD cites the reason that the correspondingly equipped Chromebooks are easier to find.

At least four APUs from AMD’s Chromebook series make it into the Acer Chromebook Spin 514.

(Fig : AMD)

In addition, there will probably be other, weaker CPUs as options. Acer mentions a Ryzen 3 and an Athlon Silver in a footnote, referring to the Zen-based Ryzen 3 3250 C and Athlon Silver 3000 C indicates with only two cores and less graphics power (3 and 2 Execution units). The typical power consumption for all four chips is 14 Watt, Acer gives the average runtime for the Chromebook Spin 514 With 10 Hours.

Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (5 pictures) The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is thanks to 360 – Degree hinge and touchscreen can also be used as a tablet.

(Image: Acer) Up to 15 According to Acer, the maximum possible GByte RAM is, the PCIe-NVMe-SSD holds a maximum 256 GByte. In the top equipment, the Chromebook will probably slip closer to the , comparable models from Acer and other manufacturers with Intel chips are in the four-digit range and below, depending on further equipment.

14 – Inch display to fold down In round 17 Millimeter thick aluminum housing is inserted 14 – inch touchscreen with full HD resolution and IPS technology, which should be protected against scratches by gorilla glass. The reinforced chassis should withstand falls from 1.2 meters and a pressure of 60 hold out kilograms. There is a USB-C port (USB 3.2 Gen 1, 5 Gbit / s) on both sides of the housing, via which the device can also output and charge DisplayPort signals. Otherwise, a USB-A port (USB 3.2 Gen 1), MicroSD card reader, headphone jack and, for the models with Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7, an HDMI port are offered.

The keyboard is optional backlit. With Wifi 5 (802. 11 ac) via two antennas and Bluetooth 5.0 is the radio equipment appropriate, there is no cellular version. With silver and gray, there are two housing colors to choose from.

Acer also calls the device as Business variant Chromebook Enterprise Spin 514, which then go with the Companies imagined and remotely maintainable Chrome OS Enterprise is equipped. It remains to be seen in which equipment variants both models will finally be available in German retailers from March. The prices should start at 480 Euro for the Enterprise model are at least 670 euros due. Acer also offers a “Device as a Service” leasing model for corporate customers.

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