Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a simple chromebook, so you don't need a lot of fancy or get a lot of fancy features, but what you get is a simple full sized keyboard and decent touchpad that can be used to consume media and web browsing, social media doom scrolling, this will work for you. Setup is easy, its a chromebook, log in with a google account and connect to your wifi and your off. Since Google wants everything stored in the cloud the local storage is tiny, but is really only used for cache. Don't expect this to be blazing fast, its fast enough, espically for chromebook designed with good battery and to be used as a web portal device this is perfect. It was also nice Acer included a laptop sleeve and a nice one too to keep the chromebook safe when travelling/work or for storage inbetween. I also like the keyboard has a good feel and easy and comfortable to type on, which is handy as I use it mostly in the evening while TV is on, to watch emails and respond too them and since this is an overpowered hungry CPU, I can roam the house a bit with it if I need too. Overall if your looking for a chromebook as a web portal device I find this to suit the purpose perfectly.

Chromebooks are great for quick, on-the-go computing and are immune to viruses. This one boots up quick (in under ten seconds) and you can do most tasks on it with preinstalled Google apps. You can't download any programs onto a Chromebook and its limited to the Google Play Store to add applications, and its 4GB of RAM is on the low side. But everything on a Chromebook is optimized well so the RAM is sufficient and I have not had a problem of multitasking on this. Good quality build and comes with a carrying case. A good value for those who love Google and wanting a stress free and fast app-based experience.

Are you in the market for an inexpensive computer? Perhaps all you need to do is check your social media, occasionally browse, and just generally do basic everyday computing tasks? Do you need a larger screen to take it easy on your eyes? The Acer Chromebook 315 caters to this audience, and does so at a razer thin budget. Is this worth the time or is Acer scraping the bottom of the barrel? First of all, the packaging is fairly large, thanks to the larger screen. Inside a box, you’ll find the laptop, and another light box with the included laptop sleeve. This is a nice addition to the package, as if you’re traveling with this laptop, it’s handy to have a sleeve. The choice of color is a light gray that looks professional without being too businessy. It is 100% plastic, but that’s not always a horrible choice for a chassis material. The chassis has minimal flex in the base, but the screen definitely can be bent about, so be careful. The overall weight is quite light for a 15” due to the construction, which is a plus. The included charger is USB-C, and I’m happy to see this. It wasn’t until recently we saw even the cheapest laptops move to USB-C PD instead of barrel jacks of yesteryear. The included power adapter is hugely overkill at 65w. I’m pretty sure this laptop could charge with a 15w power brick and not be left wanting. Why does it need so little power? Well the N4500 Celeron Jasper Lake CPU certainly sips power. It’s rated for a 6W TDP. Typical power consumption of this light weight dual core Tremont CPU is more like 4.8w. Does this lower power CPU deliver the goods? Well, don’t be too hopeful. This CPU is the slowest I’ve had the pleasure of using in a long time. In use, the CPU struggles to open Google Docs, load new tabs, and switch applications. Web pages take several seconds to process when loading. At least video acceleration is working well using the integrated iGPU, so YouTube videos work fairly well. The performance is barely acceptable for a computing device in 2025. At least Acer has paired this CPU with 4GB of RAM. While not a lot, it’s at least adequate for the Chromebook OS. A N6000, or i3 would be a much better pairing CPU wise. However we’re pinching pennies, and this is the bottom of the barrel. The 64GB of eMMC is about as barebones as you can get as well. Luckily Chromebooks are rarely IO constrained. After general setup, about 8GB are used, so there’s still quite a bit of space available. The screen is 15.6” and 1080p. That’s about all the nice things I can say about it. It has a bit of a grain to it, which makes it tiring to look at. It’s a TN panel, so off angle viewing is extremely poor. You really have to find the sweet spot by tilting the screen. It’s fairly bright for pure indoor use, but don’t expect to see anything outside. The panel is made by BOE, and rated for 220 nits. Contrast is poor, but text is crisp due to its standard RGB strip LCD. It’s passable as a budget panel, but this panel was launched 7 years ago. Port wise, the laptop design is quite generous. You get 2 USB-C 5Gbps ports, one on each side. Each of these ports supports power delivery. Both ports are flanked by USB-A ports, making it easy to plug in a mouse or USB pen drive. On the left side, there’s a headphone jack (combo headset jack using AHJ), and a micro SD slot. Ostensibly you could put a fast micro SD card and use that storage for Android apps, but let’s be real: the N4500 isn’t going to outpace even the most basic Android phones these days. Battery life, given the power sipping CPU, is excellent. Even with the brightness up on the screen, I felt like the battery was near endless. Days of standby, hours of use, it seems as though I still have three quarters of the battery remaining. This is a huge plus of this design and cpu combo. Sound is pretty bad, despite boasting a DTS logo. Playing music sounds extremely tinnie, offering little to no bass, and a harsh overall tone. It’s passible for basic use. The keyboard is spongy, but certainly not the worst i’ve ever used. It lacks a backlight, but compromises are the name of the game on this laptop. You do get a full number pad, which is a plus for some. I would have preferred less keys, and more speakers, but to each their own. The trackpad is by far the best physical feature on the laptop, as it has a great feel, is super responsive, and picks up gestures well. It’s large, and comfortable to use. Overall the entire package is compromise after compromise. This is a basic tier laptop, with the slowest possible CPU from Intel’s 2021 Jasper Lake, a tiny amount of ram, slow, small, and basic eMMC storage, a screen that was junk tier 7 years ago, and sound that is outpaced by most cell phones. That said, if you’re looking at the bottom of the barrel price wise, it’s hard to argue with the market price of Acer’s 315. I would think long and hard about getting the 4 core model w/ the N6000 as it is both double the core count, but also 500Mhz faster. The trackpad is excellent on this model, so I could see having some redemption with the faster CPU and a bit more storage. Overall I’m very meh on this model, just because it feels like there are too many compromises, leaving a computer that could be replaced by a refurbished unit from 10 years ago. On the flip side, nothing from 10 years ago will be able to give you 10 hours of battery life.

I love this computer. I don't who made this beauty, but whoever did is a genius. For it's price it is amazing. The battery is very nice and lasts long. The mouse track is very big too. This computer is amazing

First full size Chromebook so we can see what is on our old mixro sd cards

Very blurry, slow and it tends to warm up with little use. This js definitely not a true fhd Chromebook, and I strongly advise to look elsewhere for s good experience.