The trackpad is built with Gorilla Glass and the keyboard is backlit, so you can check those boxes off. WiFi 6 and Bluetooth are along for the ride. You also get a pair of USB Type-C ports, one on each side, and a USB Type-A port. You can’t expand that with a microSD card though there’s no slot. Alongside the MediaTek Kompanio chipset is the 4 GB of memory and 64 GB of eMMC storage. It’s a widescreen aspect ratio with 1920 x 1080 resolution. The Lenovo Duet Chromebook is probably the best-selling device with that processor, currently called the Kompanio 500.Īs expected from the “14” in the model number, the new Acer Chromebook 514 has a non-glare, 14-inch IPS touch display. Strangely, Acer lists this as the 8192T, which is odd since chips with a “T” are designed for tablets The Acer Chromebook 514 product page says this chip has four cores, capable of running at 2.60 GHz.Įither way, I’d expect a reasonable speed bump in this Acer Chromebook 14 compared to devices that used the older MediaTek 8183 chip. This is the slower of the two Kompanio 800 series chips for Chromebooks. However, some people were waiting for updated laptops that used this MediaTek 8192 chipset. And it may be worth the wait based on the capabilities of that more advanced chipset. We’ll have to wait a few more months before that one goes on sale. store shows this ARM-based Chromebook in stock and priced at $429.99.įirst, this isn’t the new Chromebook with MediaTek’s faster Kompanio 1380 processor that Acer announced last month at CES.

Announced in October, the Acer Chromebook 514 with MediaTek Kompanio 828 is now available.

Chromebook 514 specs