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Once upon a time, to get the best experience for Microsoft services, you needed to buy a Windows laptop. If you were on a budget laptop with lower specs, though, performance was slow, all tasks were tedious, and your productivity suffered. These days, though, the best Chromebooks offer excellent performance and less maintenance at lower price points.
Thanks to the way Microsoft has worked to improve Microsoft apps and services across all platforms from Macs to Android tablets to phones you can still get most of the Microsoft goodies on a Chromebook. In fact, if you re on a tight computer budget, a Chromebook could be the best machine for Microsoft users something even Microsoft acknowledges as it preps Windows 10X to better compete with Chrome OS.
CES 2021 may have been an entirely virtual show, but that didn t stop the announcements from coming thick and fast. It was dominated by PC news, and manufacturers announced
quite a few new laptops across many categories. The major impetus for all these new machines was three things: silicon, silicon, and more silicon.
One or more of three new component-platform launches drove all this innovation: Nvidia s GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs, Intel s Tiger Lake Core H-Series and vPro processors, and AMD s Ryzen 5000 Cezanne CPUs are all coming to laptops. In sync with all that action, PC makers updated their most popular lines, overhauled others, and developed entirely new paradigms of product building off these offerings. Here s a look at some of our favorites from the show, from gaming laptops to Chromebooks.
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Acer has been plugging AMD chips into its Chromebooks for a couple of years and now it s refreshing the lineup with the latest Ryzen mobile processors. Its first Chromebook to use those CPUs is the Spin 514. Whether you opt for a Ryzen 7 3700C or Ryzen 5 3500C processor, you ll be able to tap into built-in Radeon Vega graphics.
According to Acer, you ll get up to 10 hours of battery life out of the Spin 514 due to the improved power efficiency of the CPUs. The Chromebook weighs 1.55 kg (3.42 lb) and Acer is promising military-grade, MIL-STD 810H-compliant durability thanks to the reinforced aluminum chassis.