Hey you and welcome! My name is Mr. Berry and in this whole video I'm going to be talking about the
Acer Chromebook Spin 15. and actually this is a really nice Chromebook! In this quick
introduction what I'm going to do is basically show you that it does have a backlit keyboard
speakers that are facing up so they're not muffled if you're watching a movie or something there
uh in the comfort of your sofa or bed and this is a spin model so that means that it will spin
so let's do that right now that's right it does a 360 spin and you can use it as a giant tablet
and uh has an excellent touchscreen as you can see here it's very very bright and when you're
done using as a tablet you can spin it around this way and guess what you can then use it as a laptop
and i think one of the things I like most about this is it has a backlit keyboard and the speakers
are facing up besides the fact that it has a very good touch screen too that's a 15.6 inch screen
all right so we're going to be going over a quick unboxing going over the features
specifications and some of the other things such as battery life and that type of thing
and whether I recommend this model or not so let's take a look at this model you and I come on
I found this Chromebook at acerrecertified for around 260 dollars
they have quick shipping and the packaging is rather straightforward with just the Chromebook
a charging cable which can charge the Chromebook through the usb-c
ports and small paper talking about the manufacturer's 90-day warranty on the right
hand side of the Chromebook we find the volume control usb a port usb c port and the Kensington
security lock even though this is a manufacturer's recertified product
i don't see any dents scratches or fingerprints on this unit on the left hand side we find the
power button usb c port usb a port a micro sd card slot and an audio jack
setup is a breeze I gotta do is open up the lid
you'll turn on in a second or so click on get started and then connect to your network you'll
need to know your network's password at this point click on connect and then click on accept
and continue in moment or two it will ask you who's using the Chromebook either you or a child
select the right one and then click on next now you need to sign in to your google account that's
done by keying in your email address and then clicking next and then you key in your password
and select next now after a few moments you'll be at your desktop and you'll notice that all of your
applications will be downloading including the settings such as your backgrounds and other things
you have set up on your previous accounts will all be now synchronizing with this new Chromebook
hey did you know Chromebook come with perks yes and I'll have a link to this
down in the description we just click it and you'll open up this page here
so some of the perks that you see such as YouTube premium this is a limited time so maybe you
might get one to three months on most of these perks some of them you get actually for a year
and you can see from this list that is a very long list to get any of these perks all you have
to do is click on the little grey button there that says get perk and it open up to a new page
and then make sure that you do qualify for that particular perk
and if you want it you click on yes get perk and then you'll have it in your google account
and some of these are really good such as the 100 gigs of extra cloud storage that's always
really convenient so here's the acer Chromebook spin 15 also known as the CP 315 specifications
and the very first thing there I think is one of the most important specifications that is the
CPU or the processing unit that it's using there and the central processing unit that the one that
I found is the intel Pentium in 4200 and it ranks 150 in the top CPUs now um others models that you
can actually find at different locations there it might come with a Celeron in 3450 or the end 3350
and those are a little bit slower processors as you can see there by their rankings
next is the graphics processing unit and mine came with the intel hd graphics 505
and that is the Apollo lake and you can see the ranking there for gpus is number three to nine
now I did play games already on this one it does play android games
and I've been playing beach buggy 2 as well as other uh fun games no hesitation at all in the
gameplay I've also been creating videos already in fact I'm creating this video with this Chromebook
and it's doing a great job in displaying and doing all the things i want a Chromebook to do so um
even though it looks like oh it's ranking down there at 329 there as far as top gpus it should
be more than enough for all of your daily chores that you can throw at a Chromebook next is the
internal storage that might be considered like the hdd or the ssd hdd would be hard disk drive
Chromebooks do not actually have a hard disk drive they have a solid state drive actually soldered
right onto the main board and it's actually very quick this one here came with 32 gigs others can
actually have up to 64 gigs as you can see there in that list that would be awesome to have that
basically that means you can store more things on or download more things onto the internal storage
now it is possible to upgrade your storage simply buy a micro sd card like a 256 or
a 512 gigabyte or larger and plug that into the micro sd card reader that's found right on the
Chromebook and you can actually download items or files right straight to the sd card next you
have random access memory now you are able to find versions of this that have up to eight gigs of ram
mine that i actually bought for that 260 dollars at ac recertified that comes with four gigs of ram
and you may think well is that enough ram and the reality is yes it is for all the work that
i do i play games on my chromebook uh really good intensive games i create all the videos
that you've been watching on youtube i create those on a chromebook with only four gigs of ram
and so even though it may sound like a very small number with a chromebook with that operating
system it actually is able to utilize that smaller amount of ram and you don't get any hesitation or
really any lagginess at all so four gigs is a-okay by me and as you can see in the video i'm able to
create all the effects with 40 gigs of ram on a chromebook and the next specification that we have
there is dimensions now of course this chromebook comes with a 15.6 inch touchscreen and that
what makes this one so large it also has forward spacing or upward facing speakers
and that makes it a little bit larger too so there's the dimensions listed there
and then the next thing that we have there is the weight at 4.9
pounds and if you like kilograms it shows the kilograms there it being 2.2 kilograms
is that heavy well uh yes it is so if you're carrying it around
all day long in school you would notice it there at you know almost five pounds of weight
for me i use it around my house carrying it from the kitchen to the living room to the
office to the studio and back i haven't had any problems at all carrying the five pound chromebook
and i also wanted to add something here that i don't see on that 15.6 inch touchscreen it does
have gorilla glass and basically that means it's a little bit stronger than your typical chromebook
so it should be a little bit better if you by accident drop it or something like that it does
have a stronger seal on it and that's called gorilla glass another specification that i don't
see off the bat on this list is the battery life the battery life that i've actually been testing
with this one is very close to eight hours when i've been using it for basically like watching
youtube videos doing things on the internet social media that type of thing when i go in and i just
do straight gaming with it like a beach buggy racing 2 the battery life goes down to about six
and a half to seven hours and still that's really phenomenal of just basically playing games on the
chromebook and having it do everything for that long period of time and so the batteries are very
very good in these someone asked me in another video well how long does it take to recharge it
well on this one here i noticed that it's less than 30 minutes so when i plugged it in 30 minutes
and had the unit off came back turn it on in 30 minutes it was already recharged for me
next you see the ports now i already talked about the ports earlier in the video but they're listed
here so that you get an idea about which ports that comes with such as the usb type-c
usb type-a ports the card reader which i think is very important on any chromebook you notice that
the wi-fi is the 802.11ac that's a faster type of wi-fi connection so that's awesome to have
you also have the Bluetooth 4.2 and of course the 3.5 millimeter audio jack
this one does not come with a fingerprint reader now i haven't needed to use it with mine i just
key in my password you can actually go into the settings type in pin as in pin and assign a pin
with your Chromebook so every time you turn it on you just key in the pin number so that you don't
have to key in that long password every time you get into your chromebook and the next thing that
we see there is the web camera so is it a good web camera there it has a green mark on it the answer
is yes it is a good web camera i did test it with google meet and zoom and it performed very well
now you have to remember that when you're using the web camera you are using your bandwidth on
your internet so if you have a slow internet it will reduce the quality of your web camera if you
have a very good fast bandwidth that you pay for then you have a very good web camera experience
and the next thing that we see there is the backlit keyboard this one does come with a backlit
keyboard it does say optional there because i was able to find the same model that didn't have it
for a little bit cheaper so when you're looking at the description and specifications before you
click on buy if that's really important for you make sure it does say backlit keyboard there in
the specifications on the advertisement it does come with a good microphone in fact some of the
recordings that were recorded today were actually done on the microphone and the next thing that we
have there is speakers now it comes with very good speakers and these speakers are upward
facing speakers so the sound is not muffled if you want to watch a movie or a program and you want to
watch it while it's sitting on your lap or while you're laying in bed there's no muffledness at all
to the speakers because it's they're basically always projecting the sound upward and towards
you so i would say these are exceptional speakers and they get my thumbs up on that next is optical
drive that would be like a cd or dvd or a blu-ray drive it does not come with that i do have videos
on my channel that actually talk about how to plug a dvd drive or one of these other optical drives
right to your chromebook and be able to watch movies with the voc app so if you're interested in
doing that check out my other videos there on how to connect a optical drive to your chromebook and
it does come with a security lock slot that is important especially for me since i'm a teacher
i will go out and use it on my desk and then i have to go someplace right well you don't want to
have it walk away by the time you get back to your classroom so i do use the security lock and it's
there and I'm glad that it has it and the last question that we have there is do I recommend
this Chromebook and the answer is yes i do well why do I recommend it well i recommend it one is
for the awesome speakers next is the touchscreen and the touchscreen has a really high contrast
value the other thing that I really like about this is the backlit keyboard having that backlit
keyboard is awesome sometimes I'm working in my office and i have the lights turned down kind of
low it's maybe late at night and basically being able to look down at that keyboard and having it
backlit that is a big plus and the last big plus for this recommendation is the long battery life
if you're just going to be doing normal things with your Chromebook such as going in watching
movies going on the internet doing social media it should last anywhere between seven and a half
or more hours and if you're playing games and doing really intensive video editing like I do
i was getting more than six and a half to seven hours of time there in the Chromebook so very
good battery life and again the model number is going to be written right here for you so
that if you were looking for it you can actually do an amazon search for that exact model and I
had found it at acer recertified and I'll have a link to where I found it there in the description
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