There’s a bit of flex when you grab the screen corners or press down on the keyboard deck. The Spin 514 is clad with Acer-synchronized Mist Green aluminum (in our pictures it’s just a faint shade of green, which can hardly be seen in our pictures) with chrome trim and has the MIL-STD 810H tests against road hazards such as shock, vibration and extreme environmental influences existed. But the Spin 514 is a peppy, attractive 2-in-1 device that will satisfy many Chromebook buyers and those who prefer the wider panel. With the list prices for these two Acer Chromebooks so close together (based on our 514 tester’s $ 599.99 versus our 713’s $ 629), we’d still go for the Spin 713, as everyone else would are the same. The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (from $ 479.99, $ 599.99 in review) is a more conventional convertible with a 14-inch touchscreen with the familiar 16: 9 aspect ratio, although 128 GB of eMMC storage and 8 GB of RAM are double the usual Chromebook allotment. Nine months ago, the Acer Chromebook Spin 713 won the Editors’ Choice Award for consumer Chromebooks and impressed us with its 13.5-inch touchscreen with an aspect ratio of 3: 2 and its fast solid-state drive instead of eMMC flash Warehouse.

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