Acer’s new Chromebook Spin has a bigger screen but shorter battery life

The Acer Chromebook Spin 513 has a battery life of up to 10 hours. | Image by Acer

Acer announced that it’s updating its existing lineup of Chromebooks with three new devices at CES 2022, each of which comes with slight changes when compared to its predecessors.

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The new Spin 513 has a larger 13.5-inch display compared to its predecessor.

The new Spin 513 comes with a 13.5-inch display, an upgrade from the 13-inch screen that the previously released Spin 513 had. It swaps the Snapdragon 7c Compute SC7180 in for the MediaTek Kompanio 1380, a new processor that also comes with eight cores. And like all Spin models, you can bend back the screen to use the Chromebook as a tablet or stand it up on a flat surface in a tent-like position when watching videos.

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