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Acer Chromebook Spin 714 (2023)
from €999 / acer.com
Acer’s new Chromebook shows Google-powered laptops are longer just a weedy make-do option
● Chrome-coming queen
Chromebooks used to just be budget laptops that would start wheezing if you asked them to do much more than play a YouTube video, but these days they’re available with just as much muscle as any Windows machine. Acer’s latest Spin 714 certainly isn’t short of power, with a choice of 13th-gen Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs paired with 8, 16 or 32GB of RAM. Storage starts with a 128GB SSD, but can be upgraded to 256 or 512GB – or a 1TB gen4 SSD with double the data transfer speeds if you really want to go kerrr-azy.