The bezels around the 1,920-by-1,080-pixel Corning Gorilla Glass display are thin except for a large chin or bottom bezel two small hinges let you fold the screen back into easel or tent modes or back-to-back with the keyboard for tablet mode. (The base model and a 'tweener $529.99 configuration are based on Ryzen 3 chips.) You won't find a fingerprint reader, but the keyboard is backlit.

This Acer carries one of AMD's especially-for-Chromebooks chips, the quad-core, 2.1GHz Ryzen 5 3500C processor with Radeon Vega 8 integrated graphics. There's a small amount of flex if you grasp the screen corners or press the keyboard deck. A Sturdy ShellĬlad in Acer-dubbed Mist Green aluminum (really, it's just a faint green tint barely evident in our images here) with chrome trim, the Spin 514 has passed MIL-STD 810H tests against road hazards like shock, vibration, and environmental extremes. But the Spin 514 is a peppy, attractive 2-in-1 that will satisfy many Chromebook shoppers and those who prefer its wider panel. Since list prices on these two Acer Chromebooks are so close (based on the $599.99 of our 514 tester versus the $629 of our 713), we'd still opt for the Spin 713, all else being equal.

The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (starts at $479.99, $599.99 as tested) is a more conventional convertible with a 14-inch touch screen with the familiar 16:9 aspect ratio, though its 128GB of eMMC storage and 8GB of RAM are each double the usual Chromebook allotment.

Nine months ago, the Acer Chromebook Spin 713 won our Editors' Choice award for consumer Chromebooks, impressing us with its 13.5-inch touch screen shaped in a 3:2 aspect ratio, as well as its speedy solid-state drive instead of eMMC flash storage.

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