Acer Chromebook 311 11.6″ HD Laptop, Intel Celeron N4500, Intel UHD Graphics, 4GB LPDDR4X RAM, 224GB Storage (64GB eMMC+160GB Docking Station Set), Chrome OS, Wi-Fi 5, Black

Love it ! Update: Another Update
I have only had this Acer Chromebook for 2 days, (it’s my first chromebook), but the set up took maybe 4 mins. So far I think it will fit my needs, checking emails and surfing the net, and of course ordering from Amazon. It is a more expensive Chromebook, but I wanted a lighted keyboard. I still have Windows 7 on my Dell Inspiron, support will expire Jan 2020. I am sick and tired of Windows, it’s crummy updates , etc. Decided for the cost of a Chromebook being at least half the expense of a new laptop, would give it a try. Google Cloud Printing after research may be challenging to set up, but I really don’t use the printer a lot, so I will see if I can do without one. Will give update after using Acer 514 Chromebook for several months.Update: One month into using Acer 514. I am very pleased with this chromebook. It is fast and battery life is 11.5 hrs up to 12 hrs. The Gorilla Glass Trackpad is responsive and smooth. I like the ‘night light mode’ that I have automatically set up, it really reduces glare and strain on the eyes at night. Took a little time to get used to Chrome OS system; but I will NEVER go back to Windows again. The Touch Screen is also smooth. Over all, for my first Chromebook , I am completely satisfied. Still have not invested in a Cloud Print compatible printer…but I really don’t need to print very often.1/2021 Still loving my Chromebook. Have had absolutely no problems at all. Supports all of my needs1/2022 Became unpredictable, would just shut down, black screen, also, if I moved the Chromebook , the screen sometimes went black. I powerwashed it twice, and it still continued. So I ended up donating to a school, they still wanted it even with the unpredictability. I was hoping to get more than 3 yr out of it tho.

Nice Chromebook, but I Returned It
This is probably the best $400 Chromebook on the market right now. Unfortunately, I had to return mine. The display is a nice full HD 1920 x 1080 with bright crisp color. The keyboard is excellent. The trackpad is large and responsive. Browsing the web is very quick. I benchmarked this machine with Octane 2 and got a score of around 12000. Not bad for a Celeron. So… why did I send it back. The problem was that the Chromebook I received had two manufacturing flaws. The case is aluminum which is great, but the bottom edge of my case had a sharp edge going all way around. I think the aluminum case was a fraction of a millimeter too wide. It wasn’t sharp enough to cut, but it gave the Chromebook an unfinished feel. The second problem was that the trackpad was loose. It worked fine, but when you tapped (which you do a lot on Chromebooks), the trackpad rattled slightly. I thought I could live with it, but the more I used it, the more crazy it made me. Hopefully, these build problems were only on the Chromebook that I received and all the other Acer 514s do not have these issues.

Wish I’d returned it in the first 30 days; it’s just crap.
My first Asus Chromebook was a dream for the first year before becoming glitchy. After another year of unreliable performance I purchased an Asus c434 Flip, only to return it shortly afterwards as it was clearly defective, with flashing screens, etc. Then based on the reviews I purchased this Acer. I quickly found it problematic but foolishly didn’t return it as well. So now, four months in, the greatest problems are the touchscreen and the quality of the chassis. About once each day the screen freezes and loses all responsivity to touch, requiring a hard reboot. Sometimes when I simply pick up the device the screen alters it place requiring scrolling up or down to return to where I was, but worse than this it often just closes out the current screen and takes me back a tab or two. This happens with holding/touching the frame around the screen or its back, as well as the chassis around the keyboard. Pressure to the area adjacent to the touchpad is especially likely to cancel the current tab, sometimes throwing me back to the home screen. If I didn’t know the sequence to restore tabs (ctrl+shift+t) I’d have tossed this thing in the garbage weeks ago. This Acer has turned out to be a 400 bucks piece of crap. I LOVE the Chromebook platform and I’ll never go back to Windows, but if the only way to get a user friendly reliable laptop I may have to forego the touchscreen and cough up the $$$ for an Apple. Update eight months after purchase: now it randomly freezes when I have too many windows open. Can I close those excess windows by using the touch screen? No I can’t. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve had to shut down and reboot I’d have recouped more than the $$ I paid for this thing.

Got this when it was on sale about a year ago. I don’t regret this buy. This unit is built to last with decent specifications. It’s fast enough to run educational apps used by my child for when attending school remotely.The full HD screen is beautiful and colours are vibrant. Love the touch screen and backlit keyboard. There are no compromises in this and nothing left out for comfortable usability.

I was pleased with this purchase for my son. Item arrives safe and looked to all insensitive purposes like a MacBook when taking out of the box. Nice finish with good touchscreen and trackpad. Easy to set up and battery lasts all day. Yes its a Chromebook and not $1250 dollars like the Mac but I would be more than happy with this if my laptop ever failed.