Currently same price as the lesser 2gb (in white) version.
Technical specifications for ACER Chromebook 13 - Black
OVERVIEW
Type Chromebook
Operating system Chrome OS
SPECIFICATION
Processor - NVIDIA Tegra K1
- Quad-core
- 2.3 GHz
Memory (RAM) 4 GB
Storage 16 GB eMMC
SCREEN
Screen size 13.3"
Screen type LED
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Touchscreen No
Screen features LED backlighting
CONNECTIVTY
Wireless 802.11 ac
Ethernet No
Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.0
USB USB 3.0 x 2
Video interface HDMI x 1
Audio interface 3.5 mm jack
MEDIA
Optical disc drive No
Memory card reader SD card reader
SOUND
Speakers Integrated stereo speakers
FEATURES
Camera Integrated webcam
Microphone Yes
Mouse / trackpad Multitouch trackpad
Keyboard FineTip keyboard
POWER
Battery type 4-cell Lithium-ion
Battery life Up to 13 hours
GENERAL
Colour Black
Box contents - Acer Chromebook 13
- AC power adapter
- User documents
Acer product code: NX.G14EK.005
Dimensions 18 x 327 x 228 mm (H x W x D)
Weight 1.5 kg
Manufacturer’s guarantee 1 year
Top comments
myOpinion2
12 Feb 163#6
Great to see a 1080p panel on a sub £200 laptop, hopefully there will be more in the future.
All comments (49)
Dogpitt
12 Feb 16#1
Impressive specs for the price.
Considering the purpose of the device and its locked-down nature - can they even be taken advantage of?
nyasham
12 Feb 161#2
Can anyone with knowledge on the Tegra K1 chime in here?
I've read that the only chromebooks worth gettng run Intel Celeron and higher, anything running an ARM CPU is underpowered and not compatible with some chrome apps. But with that said, the K1 is supposed to be a powerful ARM CPU and ARM compatibility might be better now so that might no longer be true?
kristianity77
12 Feb 162#3
I've been interested in a chromebook for quite a while. Anyone here with a bit more knowledge care to answer these?
Does Chrome OS work with android apps? In that does it use the Google Play Store at all (or can it?)
What is considered the best way to expand the memory on these, or more ideally, what is the fastest in terms of speed, a decent USB 3.0 stick or a speedy SD Card?
Considering all I use my laptop that I have now for is web browsing, social media, music, films, torrents etc, would a chromebook fall short in any areas? I use office too but I'm sure there are workarounds for this or at least software that would be compatible with Office files?
chaywa to kristianity77
12 Feb 16#7
It doesn't natively run Android apps (there are some workarounds if you're that way inclined), and instead has its own Web Store
Can't comment on the second point as I just stick everything in the Cloud and hook up a generic 500GB HDD otherwise.
There's no native torrent client on the Chromebook (although I bought JSTorrent for a few quid for mine). VLC is a bit hit and miss, but I mostly use Plex for Video playback anyway through a separate client.
DennisReynolds to kristianity77
12 Feb 16#13
Google Docs is compatible with Office files, or you can always use Office Online
Torrents work a treat, but you will have to pay a couple of quid for the JSTorrent app, which was the best one out there a couple of years ago and which I still use (there might be a decent free option now)
NowTV doesn't work because it uses silverlight, but there is a workaround
Some online poker clients are little programs, but many work over the web
It doesn't run Android apps, and I don't know about storage, I occasionally use a USB stick and it's fine
Other than that Chromebooks are awesome compared with equivalently priced Windows laptops which are big, slow, ugly, heavy things
redbiro
12 Feb 16#4
Roasting hot.
Joehawkins609
12 Feb 16#5
Shouldn't the 4GB variant come with 32GB storage? it's the 2GB that comes with 16GB
Sunni to Joehawkins609
12 Feb 16#9
According to official specs, yes. Maybe a typo on Curry's site. Will check when I get mine.
myOpinion2
12 Feb 163#6
Great to see a 1080p panel on a sub £200 laptop, hopefully there will be more in the future.
Elevation
12 Feb 161#8
Are these things basically like tablets with a keyboard......before they made tablets with a keyboard?
I try to fathom it but I still can't work out the point of a Chromebook. I really am never going to work on spreadsheets in the cloud for the remainder of my time on Earth.
Nexusfifth to Elevation
12 Feb 161#20
Not really, on a tablet (with a very few notable exceptions) even with a keyboard it is hard to do any work or type/code anything as most are <10" screen as well as relatively underpowered, tablets are in general aimed as media consumption devices.
Chromebook on the other hand is a full fledged laptop with a different OS. 13.3" is perfect size for work and still portable and light enough to move around and use for everything you would use a tablet for. (So I sold my tablet after I got my chromebook as I had no need for it and actually ended up with a few extra quid in my pocket...).
16GB is really not a problem, it has 3 full size usb slots and an SD card reader. I would advise using a small usb (such as SanDisk Ultra fit 128GB available for about 20£) as you get far superior speeds. (SD card readers in chromebooks are not usually the fastest and will bottleneck fast SD cards which cost more than usb's).
All in all I use my chromebook for virtually everything except occasional gaming, and even then I have started to use steam in home streaming so I play on the chromebook. (On Linux of course.)
So yes it depends on what you do with your laptop but I would say a good desktop running Windows and a high quality screen chromebook is a very good combo for a lot of people.
The people recommending Intel cpus are not talking about power of said chips but of support. Thing is, there are many cheap laptops running Linux on Intel Celerons on some chromebooks but not very many, if at all, running on arm chips (such as this tegra one) so I am not sure if you can say install Linux on this machine, while for my Celeron based chromebook it was a matter of 5 minutes. Worth googling it I guess.
Incognitoso
12 Feb 161#10
Very limited Chromebook without internet
16 GB eMMC - hmm my phone 32 GB main + SD 64 GB
Same review says that display 1080p have the pixel but it is not sharp contrast display etc
I will better save 200 and get something else
MY MAIN RULE : )
What you need to look to any device is the screen - you always will be looking to screen and all you experience come first from this.
I have Galaxy Tab S2 and Im so happy not by exynos chip or memory or else But screen In looking web or play games everything looks so good Pictures etc . Second is the power of CPU memory etc
Joehawkins609 to Incognitoso
12 Feb 16#12
Are you going to find a better screen on a laptop at this price though?
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Opening post
Technical specifications for ACER Chromebook 13 - Black
OVERVIEW
Type Chromebook
Operating system Chrome OS
SPECIFICATION
Processor - NVIDIA Tegra K1
- Quad-core
- 2.3 GHz
Memory (RAM) 4 GB
Storage 16 GB eMMC
SCREEN
Screen size 13.3"
Screen type LED
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Touchscreen No
Screen features LED backlighting
CONNECTIVTY
Wireless 802.11 ac
Ethernet No
Bluetooth Bluetooth 4.0
USB USB 3.0 x 2
Video interface HDMI x 1
Audio interface 3.5 mm jack
MEDIA
Optical disc drive No
Memory card reader SD card reader
SOUND
Speakers Integrated stereo speakers
FEATURES
Camera Integrated webcam
Microphone Yes
Mouse / trackpad Multitouch trackpad
Keyboard FineTip keyboard
POWER
Battery type 4-cell Lithium-ion
Battery life Up to 13 hours
GENERAL
Colour Black
Box contents - Acer Chromebook 13
- AC power adapter
- User documents
Acer product code: NX.G14EK.005
Dimensions 18 x 327 x 228 mm (H x W x D)
Weight 1.5 kg
Manufacturer’s guarantee 1 year
Top comments
All comments (49)
Considering the purpose of the device and its locked-down nature - can they even be taken advantage of?
I've read that the only chromebooks worth gettng run Intel Celeron and higher, anything running an ARM CPU is underpowered and not compatible with some chrome apps. But with that said, the K1 is supposed to be a powerful ARM CPU and ARM compatibility might be better now so that might no longer be true?
Does Chrome OS work with android apps? In that does it use the Google Play Store at all (or can it?)
What is considered the best way to expand the memory on these, or more ideally, what is the fastest in terms of speed, a decent USB 3.0 stick or a speedy SD Card?
Considering all I use my laptop that I have now for is web browsing, social media, music, films, torrents etc, would a chromebook fall short in any areas? I use office too but I'm sure there are workarounds for this or at least software that would be compatible with Office files?
Can't comment on the second point as I just stick everything in the Cloud and hook up a generic 500GB HDD otherwise.
There's no native torrent client on the Chromebook (although I bought JSTorrent for a few quid for mine). VLC is a bit hit and miss, but I mostly use Plex for Video playback anyway through a separate client.
Torrents work a treat, but you will have to pay a couple of quid for the JSTorrent app, which was the best one out there a couple of years ago and which I still use (there might be a decent free option now)
NowTV doesn't work because it uses silverlight, but there is a workaround
Some online poker clients are little programs, but many work over the web
It doesn't run Android apps, and I don't know about storage, I occasionally use a USB stick and it's fine
Other than that Chromebooks are awesome compared with equivalently priced Windows laptops which are big, slow, ugly, heavy things
I try to fathom it but I still can't work out the point of a Chromebook. I really am never going to work on spreadsheets in the cloud for the remainder of my time on Earth.
Chromebook on the other hand is a full fledged laptop with a different OS. 13.3" is perfect size for work and still portable and light enough to move around and use for everything you would use a tablet for. (So I sold my tablet after I got my chromebook as I had no need for it and actually ended up with a few extra quid in my pocket...).
16GB is really not a problem, it has 3 full size usb slots and an SD card reader. I would advise using a small usb (such as SanDisk Ultra fit 128GB available for about 20£) as you get far superior speeds. (SD card readers in chromebooks are not usually the fastest and will bottleneck fast SD cards which cost more than usb's).
All in all I use my chromebook for virtually everything except occasional gaming, and even then I have started to use steam in home streaming so I play on the chromebook. (On Linux of course.)
So yes it depends on what you do with your laptop but I would say a good desktop running Windows and a high quality screen chromebook is a very good combo for a lot of people.
The people recommending Intel cpus are not talking about power of said chips but of support. Thing is, there are many cheap laptops running Linux on Intel Celerons on some chromebooks but not very many, if at all, running on arm chips (such as this tegra one) so I am not sure if you can say install Linux on this machine, while for my Celeron based chromebook it was a matter of 5 minutes. Worth googling it I guess.
16 GB eMMC - hmm my phone 32 GB main + SD 64 GB
Same review says that display 1080p have the pixel but it is not sharp contrast display etc
I will better save 200 and get something else
MY MAIN RULE : )
What you need to look to any device is the screen - you always will be looking to screen and all you experience come first from this.
I have Galaxy Tab S2 and Im so happy not by exynos chip or memory or else But screen In looking web or play games everything looks so good Pictures etc . Second is the power of CPU memory etc