Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 review: ChromeOS gets luxurious
The Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 has a nice design featuring dark grays on the chassis, black around the screen, and some interesting gold highlights on the lid and hinges.
The Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 has a nice design featuring dark grays on the chassis, black around the screen, and some interesting gold highlights on the lid and hinges.
I measured frames-per-second (fps) in the game benchmarks Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus and then again after removing the seven bloatware apps on my Razer Blade 14 (Ryzen 9 5900HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080).
Before we begin, I want to make it clear that the PlayStation 5 DualSense Wireless Controller doesn’t just work with PCs, but also with Macs, iPhones, and Android devices.
It is worth noting that the GPU-forward approach that Nvidia has adopted in the AI PC—while offering orders of magnitude more performance compared to NPUs for larger LLMs—also consumes more power.
There’s a more luxurious feel to the AI here that’s more akin to getting optional extras on a new car that mean the trunk will close for you or even reverse parallel park without you having to touch the steering wheel.
Common culprits include web browsers with lots of open tabs, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Creative Cloud, Steam, and Discord.
For reference, this gaming laptop smoothly runs on an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor and 16GB of RAM, ensuring snappy performance for all kinds of tasks.
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In this video interview with Andy MacInnes, the company’s chief development officer, he reminds us of the promise of graphene, the properties that make it suitable to replace silicon, the challenges of scaling up, the progress at its two-inch wafer substrate production facility, and its soon to be opened six-inch fab a few miles away in a new factory at Huntingdon, U.K.
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Which means keeping yourself safe from this particular downgrade tool involves paying special attention to emails and links from unknown senders who want you to download unsolicited files.