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Mids and highs were a bit muddied, and bass was lacking. Two upward-firing speakers flank the keyboard, and they put out decent volume with just a hint of distortion. I found the display to offer plenty of colors and brightness in my usual working environments. Acer didn’t provide any specs on the display, and so I don’t know its promised brightness, but Acer’s past Chromebooks have done well enough in this department. That means the display will be too stretched out in tablet mode, as opposed to the taller 16:10 and 3:2 aspect ratio displays that are closer to a real piece of paper in their dimensions. The Chromebook Spin 514 features a 14-inch Full HD IPS multitouch display, unfortunately in the old-school 16:9 aspect ratio, and it supports the Acer pen. That would be on the edge of acceptable, and once I can benchmark the laptop, I’ll be sure to report the results. I don’t know how large the battery is in the Chromebook Spin 514, but Acer promises up to 10 hours of battery life. I’d probably just prop it up on my knees and have at it if I were in a gaming mood. At 14 inches, this is still a large machine in tablet mode for playing games, but it’s doable. With Intel Iris Xe graphics, the Chromebook Spin 514 should be adept at running Android games. And when you give it fast components, it flies. And while I’m not the biggest fan of Chrome OS because of its lack of support for the legacy Windows apps that I rely on, I recognize the value of its lightweight nature and how fast and seamless it can run with less hardware. This has been my experience with every high-end Chromebook I’ve tested. Again, I couldn’t test it given its prerelease nature, but I ran it with tons of open Chrome tabs and numerous Android apps in the background and I couldn’t slow it down. With a Core i5-1140G7 and 8GB of RAM inside, the Chromebook Spin 514 promises to be very fast. Performance and display Mark Coppock/Digital Trends Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 provide wireless duties. The latter is particularly unusual on Chrome OS devices and promises higher performance than the usual USB-C 3.2. There’s also plenty of connectivity, with a full-size HDMI port (unusual for Chromebooks), a USB-A port for legacy support, and two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4.