I mean this product isn't interesting to me, but as said by Anand, there are no bad products only bad prices. At $330 it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Particularly because it isn't just 768 vertical pixels.
It's a 12 in screen so it's actually fairly high DPI at ~136. About the same as a 16 inch 1080p screen and it's a squarer aspect ratio so it has more vertical space than a 768p or 720p screen would. Overall it doesn't seem like a bad choice for a cheap laptop. I'd certainly rather use this than your typical widescreen 16x9 equivalent. At these low resolutions the additional vertical pixels are pretty helpful.
Bwa ha! Well maybe, but I'd put Comcast a few paces behind Alphabet/Google and Facebook as everyone's "favorite" cable provider sucks less in a "lurking in the corner of your bedroom watching you sleep" way and more in a "screwing you over by charging you as much as possible for the most sh*tty internet service" way.
Corrections to be made to article (all take from Acer's official press release - really AnandTech you should read those things before posting articles): 1) You should mention this meets official U.S. MIL-STD 810G military standards along with "two leading toy safety standards: the ASTM F963-16 and UL/IEC 60950-1" 2) This actually has Wi-Fi 6 onboard, specifically dual-band Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) AX201 (802.11ax) with 2x2 MU-MIMO technology, which is pretty dang good for a $329 Chromebook. 3) The press release does say 4GB or 8GB of RAM, but not which type. I am assuming you guys are guessing at that. Could be LPDDR3, could be DDR4, could even be LPDDR4x (though that last one is of course extremely doubtful).
Oh, and the press release says "up to 12 hours" of battery life which sounds about right considering the low power components, low resolution screen and battery size.
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DigitalFreak - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
That resolution should be outlawed in 2020ingwe - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
I mean this product isn't interesting to me, but as said by Anand, there are no bad products only bad prices. At $330 it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Particularly because it isn't just 768 vertical pixels.kpb321 - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
It's a 12 in screen so it's actually fairly high DPI at ~136. About the same as a 16 inch 1080p screen and it's a squarer aspect ratio so it has more vertical space than a 768p or 720p screen would. Overall it doesn't seem like a bad choice for a cheap laptop. I'd certainly rather use this than your typical widescreen 16x9 equivalent. At these low resolutions the additional vertical pixels are pretty helpful.jabber - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Yeah it's fine on a screen that size.PeachNCream - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Affordability is important when you're whoring out everything you do on your computer to the world's creepiest corporate monster.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Comcast?PeachNCream - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
Bwa ha! Well maybe, but I'd put Comcast a few paces behind Alphabet/Google and Facebook as everyone's "favorite" cable provider sucks less in a "lurking in the corner of your bedroom watching you sleep" way and more in a "screwing you over by charging you as much as possible for the most sh*tty internet service" way.NextGen_Gamer - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Corrections to be made to article (all take from Acer's official press release - really AnandTech you should read those things before posting articles):1) You should mention this meets official U.S. MIL-STD 810G military standards along with "two leading toy safety standards: the ASTM F963-16 and UL/IEC 60950-1"
2) This actually has Wi-Fi 6 onboard, specifically dual-band Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) AX201 (802.11ax) with 2x2 MU-MIMO technology, which is pretty dang good for a $329 Chromebook.
3) The press release does say 4GB or 8GB of RAM, but not which type. I am assuming you guys are guessing at that. Could be LPDDR3, could be DDR4, could even be LPDDR4x (though that last one is of course extremely doubtful).
NextGen_Gamer - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Oh, and the press release says "up to 12 hours" of battery life which sounds about right considering the low power components, low resolution screen and battery size.antonkochubey - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
>Acer had to increase its z-height to 21.5 cm, which is rather thickDamn that's thicc indeed
Myishmael - Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - link
Does anyone know when this is going to be released?