Acer Chromebook 14, Aluminum, 14-inch Full HD, Intel Celeron N3160, 4GB LPDDR3, 32GB, Chrome, CB3-431-C5FM

My experience with this Chromebook and why I returned it.

The Acer Chromebook is exactly what I expected. It is a great laptop and easy to use.

Purchased this as a gift, ended up keeping it for myself, and referring others to make the same purchase. For a Chromebook, this is an excellent value.

The laptop arrived with a broken seal on the box. The charger and power adapter bags were also opened. This was listed as a new product but was obviously not. Fortunately it was fully functional but this still makes me question this purchase.

This is not a system you would buy for gaming, However, it is perfect for daily use in my business to send emails, check news, shop online etc.

Its good for basic web, and HDMI to a big screen. Acer has pretty good visual and capacity for streaming film (we clear caches after every film). Good but not great audio for watching films. Speakers under keyboard is not ideal. Came with one faulty pixel on my screen, like a dot on an i, dont notice it when working on docs, but a constant dot on films.

Be wary about buying this model as support ends in June 2022 with zero security updates past that time.

This laptops best aspect is its battery life, which has lasted me multiple days without charging. Thats about the extent of its superb features, though; you cant game on this laptop because Steam & most downloadable games cant run on Chrome OS. It runs very slow with any Chrome extensions running, including ad-blocker. The fact that everything is run through Google Chrome means that your Drive is attached to everything, which can be a bit of a pain sometimes. Overall this laptop is okay but Ive had it for less than a year and Im already looking to replace it because it doesnt do all of the things I wanted it to, such as games and the Statistics program I need for my Psychology courses.

Here’s my impression of the fifth Chromebook in my life.

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