![]() The Acer Chromebook 14's 4.1 x 3-inch, buttonless touchpad accurately tracked my input as my fingers navigated around the desktop, and there was a solid feel to each click. When I tried the Acer Chromebook 14 out on the typing test, these shallow keys limited me to 72 words per minute, a dip from my 80 wpm average. We prefer keyboards with between 1.5 and 2 mm of travel. Acer gave the notebook keys with only 1.14 millimeters of travel, which is too shallow and leads to bottoming out (the act of slamming one's digits against the deck). Typing on the Acer Chromebook 14 felt like drumming my fingers against my wooden desk. The notebook filled a large conference room with an excellent reproduction of James Blake's "Timeless," rendering clear guitar strings, strong bass and the sweet high notes of the track's synths. If you need your laptop to double as a stereo, the Acer Chromebook 14 blasts plenty of volume, with no distortion. ![]() Don't expect wide viewing angles, as I saw color darken significantly at 45 degrees. ![]() The Acer Chromebook's panel emits up to 215 nits (a measure of brightness), which is near the HP Chromebook 14 (212 nits), but dimmer than the Dell Chromebook 13 (270 nits), Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 (378 nits) and the category average (251 nits). The Acer Chromebook 14's sleek metallic design places it at the head of the pack in style. That beats the Dell Chromebook 13 (1.4) and the category average (2.4), but the HP Chromebook 14 (0.5) and Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 (0.9) earned better marks. ![]() The Acer Chromebook 14 is relatively good at displaying accurate color, as it earned a score of 0.99 on our Delta-E test (zero is perfect). That's lower than the HP Chromebook 14 (65 percent), Dell Chromebook 13 (96 percent), Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 (110 percent) and the average thin-and-light notebook (82 percent). According to our colorimeter, the Acer Chromebook 14's display can produce only 62 percent of the sRGB spectrum.
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