Hands On With Acer's Chromebook R 11

Intel commenced at the beginning of today by adulating mutant portable PCs to the most astounding. Acquire on the 2 1s, the chipmaker stated, the separable consoles, the swivel pivots. They don't need to run Windows, as I saw with Acer's somewhat senseless Chromebook R 11, the main Chromebook to act like a Lenovo Yoga (or, to be more prudent, an Acer Aspire R 14.)

The R 11 doesn't feel costly, yet it doesn't feel terribly shoddy. The finished, white complete is okay, and the isolated keys helped me a considerable measure to remember somewhat looser MacBook keys. The 11-inch screen, at 1,366 by 768, feels like the correct determination, and there are a lot of ports.

Here's the issue with playing with portable PCs that won't be discharged until one month from now: the unit I was playing with experienced difficulty awakening from rest. The pivot was sufficiently sticky to prop it up in table-tent mode, and the screen consequently reoriented when I flipped it into tablet mode. However, hammer it shut, open it up, beat on the keyboard...and there was none of the moment wake you ought to get from a Chromebook. I needed to reboot the thing.

When it was working, however, the Intel Celeron processor made things feel responsive, if not exciting. It's a Chromebook. It surfs the Web. You get what you get. In the event that you need to utilize your Chromebook to play a considerable measure of Web recordings, the R 11's tent mode looks culminate. Something else, this is a proficient Chromebook, or it will be once it gets its firmware worked out.