Acer Chromebook Spin 11 (2018): More costs for what you get

Chromebooks are now spread through a wide range of price points. You have a super Primium super pixelbook, with a really high cost, medium -range options like Samsung Chromebook Pro. Then you have budget models – it is still surprising to me that you can capture a functional laptop that does the largest person needs for a few hundred dollars.

Acer is one of the dominant players in the low space, and usually offers solid prices for very attractive prices. While the company has greatly improved its products and found more efficient measures in cost costs, Chromebook books for Acer Budget are still suffering from performance or quality building. If we take a big step in the last style that you reviewed, The Chromebook 15 (2017), I have SPIN 11, 2-In-1 laptop with support for the pen store and play.

At $ 349 of MSRP, SPIN 11 provides a lot of battery life and a touch screen. But the weak performance, a very Meh tracking panel, a frightening width, and an uncomfortable spongy keyboard displays the experiment. In the end, 349 dollars are large to spend on this device, too much for what you are getting here.

Specifications

Goodness

Not very good

summary

Chromebook Spin 11 Strong, with a thick and solid body. It is in no way to the Ship machine. In fact, it is the same XPS 13 (9370), although the latter is much thinner. However, this is the 350 dollar Chromebook and a comprehensive construction will help it withstand the harshness of the life of the family and students. Its size makes it completely carried to ejaculate in a backpack to go somewhere as well.

For contact, Acer presented two USB-C and USB-A 3.0 port, one on each side of the laptop. You can also get Kensington lock and MicroSD. For $ 350, these are more ports than I expected, and anyone who thinks about Spin 11 will be happy to see that you can charge the laptop from either side – I really liked to be able to do this. For wireless, it rotates 11 SPORTS 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2.

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As the name suggests, it rotates 11 is 2 in 1. The hinges are sometimes a source of anxiety for the transformable laptops, and sometimes you feel vibrating or weak. Good news, this Chromebook is firm enough to keep the cover in place, regardless of the situation. Unfortunately, it does not pass the open test with one hand.

The webcam is very bad, as usual with laptops. The images required by it is loved and not displayed in soft details. Video calls are also a beautiful subpair, but I expected all this.

Acer did not win any design prizes with SPIN 11, which is good. Although it is all plastic, the cover has an intersecting design that contains almost tissue -like tissue. It definitely adds a little gravity, which makes rotation 11 look a little more beautiful at a more distance than it is already.

The keyboard and tracking plate

With any budget laptop, you can expect dull keyboards and tracking tools, Chromebook Spin 11. The keys contain more travel than you expected, but it is very quietly quietly, giving them this sponge feeling. It is often dispersed and uncomfortable for longer periods of writing.

The plastic but large plastic tracking plate, supports Chrome OS multi -fingers. It is not bad, in itself, provides good control and accurate accuracy, but I have the same problem that I do with some other plastic tracking panels: my fingers tend to “stick”. While it is unreasonable to expect glass in this case, the Spin 11 tracking panel lacks any kind of slipping. It is a slightly inconvenience, but it is more clear while trying to use gestures.

an offer

The IPS LCD 11.6 -inch panel does not write about home. Its reaches 1366 x 768, the texts, images and other media are definitely soft and boring; The Spin 11 width is very average, especially in color accuracy. Do not indicate that sectarian edges do not help often, they often have a distraction while watching videos or trying to write some of the content.

The touch screen is actually very refunded with a little cumin. This means that it will work well with Android applications, which are installed on the stable canal directly outside the box. Acer also includes the Wacom EMR pen for drawing, blogging notes, and anything else you may want to his pen. It is a hard pen, but there is no place to store it inside the laptop itself, unlike Chromebook Plus. The performance was generally good, although some applications, especially onnote, could be a little slow when using the pen.

Performance and battery life

With Cerelon N3350, the CPU with a low -end -of -end core core processor that was recorded at 1.1 GHz (Boost 2.4GHz) or Android application or two open. It exceeds eight to ten signs of a tab and everything slows down; Likewise, operating more than two or three Android applications simultaneously causes slowdown. Increase several open things and the laptop hangs over basic things such as introducing text, closing marks and loading pages. 4 GB of RAM is not luxurious, but it should be much for the Chrome operating system.

It is better to leave heavier web pages like YouTube, Docs and Slack on its own without opening a tab or other applications. I tried the regular workflow on the 11th rotation and was a very frustrated exercise. Maintaining the recession (because the app is great on OS Chrome), Basecamp (our task management system), and the tab of my article, and the source/search pages were simultaneously at one time.

32 GB of EMMC storage is what you get. Although it is not the fastest exist there, it is fine for the Chrome operating system. If you want more local space, you can always expand using a MicroSD card.

Acer claims that you will get about ten hours of 37Wh battery, which is somewhat accurate with the use of light. Unlike my attempt to work on the usual workflow, I kept a 11 or two tabs at one time, with the transverse application opened. He gave me this between nine and ten hours, which is very good. However, the time of preparation is inconsistent – sometimes, may last for several days with the loss of one percentage, and sometimes, I was closing it with a battery of approximately 80 % and I return the next day to the dead.

conclusion

Another attempt by Acer in Budget Chromebook is not good. For $ 350, Spin 11 does not work well and the shortcuts are easily clear throughout the laptop. Compared to what you get with Samsung Chromebook Plus-2 in 1, by the way-for another $ 100 (MSRP, often decreases to $ 420), I think Acer has a stirring here. Samsung is packed in better performance, better width, and a better, more marginal keyboard for a little more. Suggest value here, at the same time, is not good.

When it comes to this, the Chromebook must be, although there is a simple device, able to handle more than this price can. Fortunately for me, I close the mandatory tabs every few minutes, otherwise I think I would have been frustrating a lot of rotation 11. It is good to sit on the sofa, stir in the tablet mode, browse Amazon, EBay or anything else, but it is better to leave any kind of work for something else.

I usually do not face any problems with the Chromebook, but this is not a comfortable telling family or friends to buy. Even for the “regular” consumer, this laptop is DUD for $ 350. If you have really been appointed to this, for any reason you have, wait for the price to decrease.