4/23/2021 0 Comments Acer Chromebook Q1Vzc
It becomes a little worse when you use it on your lap and block the vent holes.Its also an 11.6in model, but it looks more like a traditional Windows laptop rather than a laptop designed for a minimalist operating system like Chrome OS.The best part is, if youre already entrenched in the Google apps environment for your productivity and communications, then its a laptop that has been designed specifically for you.
The Chromebooks interface looks like a standard desktop at first glance, but its basically a system that has been devised to run Googles services within the Chrome Web browser. If youre used to this browser, youll have no problems at all using this laptop, but you might need to get used to the concept. Because its designed to run Googles Drive, Docs, Gmail and other services, the Chromebook isnt all that useful when it doesnt have an Internet connection. Its of limited use when you arent online, meaning that without an Internet connection you can only use Google Docs (Drive syncs all Docs locally and allows you to also make other file types, such as images available offline), in addition to reading and writing emails and playing with locally-stored media files. The benefits of the Chromebook are maximised if you use it in an environment that has Wi-Fi, be it at home, in the office or on school grounds, but for other places you will need to tether it to your phone in order to get online (it has dual-band Wi-Fi). We tried using it with an Optus USB broadband dongle to get online, but it wasnt recognised by the operating system. Acer says that a new model in three to six months will have broadband built in to it. Performance and battery life Working on Google Docs, browsing the Web and even watching streaming video are things that Acers Chromebook is good for and its performance during our test period was comparatively fast against Samsungs Chromebook. See the Samsungs review for a few more details on what the Chrome OS offers, and also what you can do with it as far as playing local files). The Acer relies on an x86-based Intel Celeron CPU for its processing power, along with 2GB of RAM; the Samsung has an ARM-based Samsung Exynos 5 Dual system on chip (SoC), and the same amount of RAM. While the Acer felt quicker than the Samsung during everyday usage, Web browser-based benchmarks also confirmed that it is indeed a faster performer. It recorded the best marks in all of the browser benchmarks that we ran on it, and you can also see in the table below how its Chrome browser performance even fares better than Chrome running on an Intel Atom-based Windows 8 tablet from Dell. This was also noticeable when we ran the NBA.TV (NBA LeaguePass) streaming video services, which did not run as smoothly on the Dell (using Chrome) as it did on the Acer. For a small device thats designed to be mobile, its battery life isnt great (especially when video playback is involved). It has a removable, 37 Watt-hour battery that recorded only 1hr 44min in our rundown test, in which we played MP4 videos non-stop until the unit conked out, with the screen brightness at maximum and with Wi-Fi enabled. The Samsung Chromebook recorded over four hours in the same test. Its one of those things where battery life seems to have been compromised in order to supply better performance. Were not completely mad though because the extra performance that the Acer supplies is noticeable, especially during streaming video tasks. A lot more life can be extracted from its battery if a medium screen brightness is used and if you only undertake tasks that dont need too much CPU time (that is, if you dont watch videos or play Flash-based games). We managed to get just over four hours out of it when just using it for Google Docs, reading news sites and browsing a few photos, and by keeping the screen brightness just below the halfway point. If youre just using it to browse basic Web pages or write documents, it wont uncomfortably warm. But if the CPU has to do plenty of work, such as process Flash-based video, then the amount of heat can get annoying, especially because the heat can be felt through the palm rest.
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