There aren’t many direct competitors to the Spin 513 at its list price of £400. It’s available with 4GB or 8GB of RAM and a 64GB or 128GB eMMC drive.Īcer Chromebook Spin 513 review: Price and competition The Spin 513 is a convertible laptop with a 13.3in, 1080p screen, which can be folded back through nearly 360-degrees to cover all the usual tablet, tent and stand modes, on top of working as a standard clamshell laptop. This is a new entry into Acer’s mid-range Chromebook Spin line you don’t quite get the premium 2-in-1 Chromebook experience of the superb Chromebook Spin 713, but you’re getting a faster processor and a bigger, better screen than you’d find on the low-end 11in Chromebook Spin 311. READ NEXT: Our guide to the best Chromebooks to buy Acer Chromebook Spin 513 review: What you need to know
If the Snapdragon 7c can also deliver on connectivity and battery life, then this could be one exciting Chromebook. What makes the Acer Chromebook Spin 513 intriguing, however, is that it isn’t using a low-end MediaTek processor or some repurposed mobile CPU but Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7c SoC or “compute platform”, designed specifically for entry-level PCs.īuilt to keep power consumption and heat to a minimum, this chip incorporates eight cores running at up to 2.4GHz and an Adreno 618 GPU, which should make it competitive with other Pentium- and Celeron-based Chromebooks we’re seeing at the sub £500 price point, not to mention the AMD A-Series Chromebooks you’ll also find at this level. In fact, some of the best-loved Chromebooks – the early Samsung devices, the old Asus Chromebook Flip C101, the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet – have been based on ARM silicon. You can understand the fuss about Apple’s M1 MacBooks and the curiosity around ARM-based Windows laptops but, in the world of Chromebooks, ARM-based devices are nothing new.
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