Amazingly good, but not good enough

Amazingly good, but not good enough

Acer Chromebook CB5-311-T6R7 33.8 cm (13.3-inch) notebook (NVIDIA Tegra K1 NV, 2.1GHz, 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, Full HD, Chrome OS) white (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

I'll try my report brief and only bullet points summarize the important points in my eyes for a notebook. As a reference for successful hardware used a MacBook Pro. Of course, this is more expensive by far and I will always be the price included in the assessment.

Since that has not worked with the brief, here already at the very beginning my

CONCLUSION:
The Acer Chromebook provides for the money surprisingly good hardware, the quality is generally OK, keyboard and touchpad surprisingly good and the battery power fantastic. Coupled with good connections may be for the money no longer be expected I think. Unfortunately, the display over the rest is in my eyes the weak punk of the device, the good resolution makes the poor contrast and viewing angle does not compensate.

Web browsing is super fast and fun, Web Apps for Office and co. also. For multimedia, unfortunately this is not true, though streaming is basically flawless, Offline photo and video are only very rudimentary support.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the device, the display and some software have shortcomings but to me it led back to send.

To Hardware:
++ The keyboard is surprisingly good. Although the keys do not really seem all straight and the palm rest is slightly, but they are actually more tactile problems that do not detract from the function

++ The same goes for the touchpad, it is a good size and supports gestures, but strangely not all (more about it in software)

++ The battery is excellent. When simple activities you are performing 10 hours probably realistic if with Flash or video hardware will be more demanded maybe 6 or 7, still a top result

++ Connection options are also good, HDMI, USB3.0, SD slot, headphones. No surprises but it also lacks nothing, with AC Wifi really in every respect to the current state of the art

+ Processing I would describe as overall good. The device is not really as stiff as you would hope for from a portable computer, but still priced perfectly adequate

-The Display is unfortunately the biggest shortcoming of the device. Although very high resolution but low in contrast with Full HD because of the TN panel and not the viewing angle stability. Macnhmal it's me not noticed negative, but many times I had to adjust the angle or dislocate the head or having to close and decipher small text with poor contrast. The poor software support for other resolutions than Full HD does not help here, unfortunately. For many, the display may be acceptable, but unfortunately I have not the best eyes and for me it was the KO criterion not to keep this Chromebook.

Software and Performance:

+++ Google is not exaggerating when a fast start is applied. Until the Login Screen there are not 10 seconds, until the browser loaded again less. I know from any device, in any price range that is as fast, hat!

++ The total performance is surprisingly good. Considering the hardware I was skeptical here because I could not imagine anything with under the Nividia chip, but my bottom line is ideal for everyday use. Of course, life is at a Chromebook only: everything runs in Chrome. But you should know that with such a device, of course, and I was really surprised how the Acer beat against my MacBook. I have not done any benchmarks or the like, but for my everyday use (1-20 open tabs + YouTube / Spotify / Google Music in the background) was the Chromebook the MacBook in every way. But sometimes when I have multiple complex Tabs Reload and back and forth-turn the music stuttered something really exaggerated something. Perhaps because even with updates that can be improved, but I also breaks no spikes of the crown if I make a little slower

++ Also the operating concept could convince me. Extra search button brings the Apps on the keyboard on the device and Google, a great thing. Gestures to Tab switches (three fingers to the left and right) and extra keys for an overview of all windows. Here, Google has together amount pecks lot of Mac and Linux, and one can rejoice over it

--Einiges Is me, unfortunately, negative attention in the software, such as the setting of resolution and text size: For me, the operation of the device resolution is impossible with the native Full HD, lyrics are just too small. Now you can change the resolution or adjust the text size. Because they are simply cut unfortunately Adjust text size causes some apps become unusable, such as the pre-installed calculator. How come through the quality control is beyond me

-Softwarekompatibilität Is naturally at Chromebooks fundamentally a problem because only Chrome apps and web apps work. But even then there are problems, such as the Google Play Music Mini Player only supports Intel processors. The one learns but only after research, the player himself always says you should sign up and at first I thought of a simple bug. But no, the player simply goes not. I am intensely Play Music users and felt already encountered something before the mind that the Google will own services on its own operating system so poorly supported

-Another Missing function in which I doubted only on myself because I simply could not imagine that they actually lack is zooming of photos and image files in general: it does not go via pinch-to-zoom or otherwise somehow with the Standard image viewer. I realize that the file manager and other in Chrome offers only very basic features: copy files from USB, create folders, etc. But why does a device with an SD reader and USB3.0 but you can not even photos sift just before shifts because you just can not ve been to some detail. I really need to shake his head as I write these lines, and that's not a metaphor

Video files support Chromebooks, moreover, only fundamentally, Google Play Movies can be stored offline and MP4 files can be played locally. For me, not a major shortcoming but deserves mention

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