New Acer Chromebooks boast 11th-Gen Intel CPUs for up to $900

Acer is releasing half a dozen new Chromebook SKUs, it introduced in the present day throughout its [email protected] occasion. The corporate is updating its lineup with choices for Intel’s newest Eleventh Gen “Tiger Lake” CPUs, and though the checklist consists of a few of the usual cheaper Chromebook choices, Acer additionally launched some pricier alternatives boasting fanless designs for quieter operation.

Fanless two-in-one Chromebooks

The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 and Chromebook Spin Enterprise 514 are the highest-end choices. They’re costlier than the typical Chromebook (Acer’s current offerings go as little as $190), with the customary model costing $700 when it comes out in January and the business-focused model priced at $900 for a December launch.

The upcoming two-in-ones (laptops that may convert into tablets) ditch the followers to cut back noise, and that probably helps hold them skinny as properly. Every machine is 0.68 inch (17.27 mm) thick and weighs 3.02 kilos (1.37 kg).

CPU choices vary from a dual-core Intel Core i3-1110G4 to a quad-core i7-1180G7. The machines are specced for 16GB of LPDDR4X reminiscence and 512GB of NVMe PCIe 3.0 storage.

Acer’s Spin 514 has a 14-inch display with slim bezels (for an 84 p.c screen-to-body ratio), a touchpad manufactured from Corning Gorilla Glass, DTS Audio encompass sound, and Wi-Fi 6. There are solely two ports, nevertheless—each USB-C.

Acer’s enterprise Chromebooks goal cloud-dependent corporations and IT directors who have to deploy, handle, and safe cloud workforces.

The extra budget-friendly different, the Acer Chromebook Spin 314, drops the CPU choices to a two-core, two-thread Intel Celeron N4500 as much as an Intel Pentium Silver N6000 with 4 cores and 4 threads (no hyper-threading right here). The Spin 314 will begin at $500 when it comes out subsequent month.

Acer’s new Chromebook 515

The Chromebook 515 and its enterprise model, the Acer Chromebook Enterprise 515, are 15.6-inch clamshells with the identical specs. Each have CPUs starting from an Eleventh-Gen Intel Pentium Gold 7505 to a quad-core Intel Core i7 1180G7 with Iris Xe built-in graphics. You’ll be able to pack every with as much as 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage and get a number of the identical bonus options discovered with the aforementioned two-in-ones, like a Gorilla Glass touchpad and DTS Audio. There’s additionally a webcam shutter on this 3.75-pound machine. You continue to do not get USB Kind-A ports or a headphone jack, however the Chromebook 515 has two USB-C (3.2 Gen 2) ports, HDMI, and microSD.

The Acer Chromebook 514 is a inexpensive possibility; it begins at $400 and releases in December. There are some downgrades, although. The clamshell has solely 8GB of RAM and 128GB of eMMC storage. It runs on an octa-core MediaTek Kompanio 828 CPU and Arm Mali-G57 MCS graphics.