IF YOU’VE EVER happily used a Chromebook but wished for one with more screen space, the most disappointing thing about Acer’s Chromebook 315 might be that it stops that ambition in its tracks. Yes, this is a 15.6in laptop for well under £300, and there’s room in the market for such cheap notebooks that also provide plenty of room for multiple applications. It’s just that the Chromebook 315 isn’t the one to fulfil that role.
Your £280 gets you a 1,366x768 display, with a dual-core 1.6GHz AMD A4-9120C processor backed by 4GB of RAM. This is the spec we’ve been testing – pretty wimpy for a Windows laptop, but Chrome OS requires much less brute strength. If you can stretch to £300, there’s also a 1,920x1,080 version, which has a 1.8GHz AMD A6 processor.
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