This is lower than when I took the test on a keyboard I’m familiar with and managed to hit 107 wpm. I took the typing test at on the Acer Chromebook 514 and managed to hit 88 words per minute with its keyboard. But with the Acer Chromebook 514, I felt right at home typing. It’s possible I’m used to smaller keyboards, as the previous laptop I tested ( MSI Prestige 14 Evo A12) had a huge keyboard, so I would underestimate the placement of keys and end up with garbled sentences full of nonsense. The Acer Chromebook 514’s black keyboard is a little smaller than others I’ve tested, but it worked just fine for me. Acer Chromebook 514 keyboard and touchpad Once again, this is significantly lower than the Chromebook average brightness of 294 nits and Flex 5 (260), but it did better than the Spin 514 (209 nits). The Acer Chromebook 514 didn’t do much better in our screen brightness test, hitting a low average of 224 nits. This is significantly below the Chromebook average of 70% and just slightly worse than the Lenovo Flex 5 (47%), but it did a little better than the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (42.8%). The Acer Chromebook 514’s colorimeter tests show that the display is truly lacking, only covering 46.2% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. The saturation also looked really off, with faces appearing unrealistically cool with little depth to the colors. Even during a daylight scene when a giant crocodile dinosaur munched on a cage at sea, it seemed held back by the hardware’s lacking nits.

At maximum brightness in a dark room, it felt like there was a transparent black layer over the display. I watched the trailer for Jurassic World: Dominion and quickly noticed how dim the Acer Chromebook 514’s display is.

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