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Acer toughens up its kid-focused Chromebook keyboards


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SOURCE: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/acer-toughens-up-its-kid-focused-chromebook-keyboards/
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Specifically, the kid-focused laptops' keyboards are designed to be hard to damage.The Chromebook 512 (C852), Chromebook 511 (C734/C734T), Chromebook 314 (C934/C934T), and Chromebook Spin 311 (R722T/R723T) join Acer's education-focused machines with keyboards featuring "mechanically anchored keys." According to the company, that makes it difficult for users—especially curious young students—to rip keys out of the laptops, while still offering keyboards that are easy to repair or replace.An Acer spokesperson further explained the keyboard to Ars, saying that a ridge under each key makes it difficult for fingers to get under and pop it out."The ridge holds it in place better than other designs," the spokesperson said. They each claim up to 12 hours of battery life.The 511 is an 11.6-incher for younger learners; it has a plastic coating that meets the UL/IEC 60950-1 safety standard and the ASTM F963-16 toy safety standard.Meanwhile, Acer's Chromebook 512 comes with a 12-inch screen at a 3:2 aspect ratio, rather than the wider 16:9 aspect ratio the other machines use. It's the only new Chromebook featuring a screen reinforced with Gorilla Glass and Acer's antimicrobial coating, which fights bacteria with a silver-ion agent.The machine uses a MediaTek MT8183 with four big Arm Cortex-A73 cores and four little Cortex-A530 cores.

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