The Acer Chromebook 514’s black keyboard is a little smaller than others I’ve tested, but it worked just fine for me. Acer Chromebook 514 keyboard and touchpad

Once again, this is significantly lower than the Chromebook average brightness of 294 nits and Flex 5 (260), but it did better than the Spin 514 (209 nits). The Acer Chromebook 514 didn’t do much better in our screen brightness test, hitting a low average of 224 nits. This is significantly below the Chromebook average of 70% and just slightly worse than the Lenovo Flex 5 (47%), but it did a little better than the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (42.8%). The Acer Chromebook 514’s colorimeter tests show that the display is truly lacking, only covering 46.2% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. The saturation also looked really off, with faces appearing unrealistically cool with little depth to the colors.

Even during a daylight scene when a giant crocodile dinosaur munched on a cage at sea, it seemed held back by the hardware’s lacking nits. At maximum brightness in a dark room, it felt like there was a transparent black layer over the display. I watched the trailer for Jurassic World: Dominion and quickly noticed how dim the Acer Chromebook 514’s display is.

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