The Acer Chromebook 317 is the world's first 17.3-inch Chromebook - weaveryone1946

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The Acer Chromebook 317 is the world's largest Chromebook to date, with a display spanning 17.3 inches in sloping breadth. Announced Thursday at Acer's next@Acer virtual event, this behemoth is attributable ship in June with a starting damage of $380. Merely that price should follow a deep hint: Aside from the size, this laptop is modestly organized in all other way.

The display's the thing with the Chromebook 317, of course. I don't conceive anyone actually enjoys squinting at the 11-inch displays that accompany the smallest, least expensive Chromebooks—though that's a good overall size of it and weight class for deploying to grade-school students. It took a trifle while for 13-inch and 14-inch Chromebooks to appear, offering any optical way, and a few 15-edge in models eventually joined them. A awash 17.3 inches is untold luxury.

Here comes the big caveat: resolving. The display, which offers both touch and non-touch options, is Full HD (1920×1080)—a dry selection for 13-in or 14-inch screens, just a stretch for 15-column inch displays, let alone the Chromebook 317's vast plain. Everything will be larger, but not needfully better. Also, while the Chromebook 317 is theoretically portable, its size (15.8 x 10.5 x 0.9 inches) and weight (5.18 pounds) are best for short hop from the kitchen to the parlor.

Acer stuck largely to Chromebook-level configuration standards otherwise. The double USB-C ports are a plus—you charge from these ports, too. The C.P.U. options include but low-end Pentium and Celeron, however. The maximum RAM is 8GB, and the storage is a sparse 128GB eMMC.

The Chromebook 317 still deserves notice because its bigger video display is a human beings's first, and potentially a blessing to users who struggled to see operating theatre share work on smaller models. Sensible don't gestate IT to do much more than any other Chromebook can do. It simply does it with a larger screen.

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Genus Melissa Riofrio spent her constructive journalistic years reviewing many of the biggest iron at PCWorld--desktops, laptops, storage, printers--and she continued to revolve about hardware testing during stints at Computer Currents and CNET. Presently, in plus to leading PCWorld's content direction, she covers productiveness laptops and Chromebooks.