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Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars with 359 reviews

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  • Battery Life

    Rating 4.4 out of 5 stars

  • Speed

    Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars

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    Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars

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89%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers are enthusiastic about the Chromebook 516 GE's large, crisp screen, comfortable keyboard, and strong performance. Many appreciate its ease of use and long battery life, along with its reasonable price. The laptop's suitability for gaming and its lightweight design are also frequently praised. A small number of users expressed a preference for more RAM.

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  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Greas

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Easy to use and great starter. Tackles small tasks amazing. And can game

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Screen size, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Best Chromebook Value

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great chomebook. Superfast, great speakers, and great screen. Fast to boot up and can run several apps at once.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Screen size, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Awesome screen

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Laptop exceeded my expectations. If you're looking for a powerful Chromebook with a big beautiful screen this one is hard to beat.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good and easy for me.

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    It’s fast and easy to use. the image is perfect, and the battery life is great.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Screen size, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Chromebook excellence

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    Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Love the screen size and speed for all internet needs.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Keyboard, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Acer Chrome book

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great chrome book, very fast and I like the back lit keys makes typing easy on the eyes.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great buy

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    It's like having a large cell phone. Easy to use. Speedy to sites. Overall I just love it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Screen size

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great work from home alternative

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    Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I’ve been using this as a work from home alternative from my personal laptop. It’s great! Runs smoothly, OS easy to use, simple, no real room to be hacked, great screen size, lovely resolution, and you can watch 4k movies///play games on it easily! High end Chromebooks are going to take over a niche of the laptop market and I’m here for it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Great fro what it is.

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great for a Chromebook. I haven’t had much time to play with it, but the keyboard doesn’t glow green and red like it shows in the picture, so that’s disappointing. Can’t download games like I thought I might be able to for playing offline while traveling. It’s quick and responsive. Other than that I can’t tell much of a difference from this and that of other laptops. I have went back to my basic Lenovo laptop that was previously.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Chrome Book

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Excellent gaming laptop; it is fast and has long battery life. I use it for my daily task.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Awesome experience @ Best Buy !

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Love my new computer! Fast,efficient,intuitive...just had to plug it in and get going. It is everything I hoped for and more. I did a lot of research before shopping and asked a lot of questions and the clerk who helped me was very knowledgeable and helped me to make "the best choice" for me!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Gaming on the go

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    If you have solid Internet this is one of the best options for gaming on the go or even at home. Very happy with chrome plus and gaming on gforce now. Solid performance and using 4080 gpu rig through gforce now. Cloud gaming has come a long way and still has a way to go but combining this Chromebook and gforce now shows us what is in store. Eventually going to buy a second one for my wife.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Computer

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    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Good labtop, used it for gaming and school, it works great.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Worth the price

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Definitely worth the price. It runs fast, it is silent, no issues so far.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Really Good Device

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Really good deal considering the hardware. They had me at 2.5 Gbps ethernet port. 120hz 1600p screen is amazing. I'm a GeForce NOW RTX 3080 Founders member and this device runs it really well. The 120hz is really smooth. I like the backlight keyboard. I wish you could animate the key colors tho. Trackpad feels great. Ocean Glass is a really nice feeling material. I like that they included a USB-A port. I had fun installing the Linux add on and running apps. Overall great computer. 10/10 would buy again.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Acer America Still Hitting Chromebook Homerun's

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I'm a huge fan of chromebooks but not much of a gamer. The price point on this for the performance is incredible. 2K+ screen is the most brilliant laptop screen I've seen. Kinda glad its not a touch or convertible as I've yet to have to clean the screen. The speaker were a good surprise, decent enough for streaming tv or movies (still prefer a good headset for music). My only negative is the "Android" experience. For whatever reason using the Android streaming Apps causes a random screen flicker. This was not an issue when streaming through the browser. If I get into some gaming I'll update my review then As I mentioned, I'm a huge chromebook person. I've had several over the last decade(?). 11", 13" 1080p, 13" 2K, and now this 16" 2K+. Chromebooks have come a long way.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Lap top

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Product was good different than we went in for but this fits needs better however slightly dissapointed at staff members on floor who were ther to assist customers first too along time to get help then took 3 other tech help to get infomation we were looking for regarding the products we were looking at. Very unknowlegeable staff. Lap top we got overall satisfied alrhough felt we gor upsold and rnded up spending 100.00 more than my budget.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Jaden

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    The computer what I was looking for, fast, easy to use.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 3 out of 5 stars

    Chromebook Plus Disappointment

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I purchased this to do work online. This is a gaming computer and a chromebook plus so I had high expectations of it working for me. It has a faster processor than some and more RAM so I thought if it could handle gaming, it could handle working online. I was wrong. It repeatedly shuts down and restarts which caused me to fail a couple endeavors. I still like this laptop, but it cannot do multiple things at once (mail, plus sheets, plus a website will bring on a crash.) I expected better. I have not returned this laptop, however I did go get another Macbook Air which has worked seamlessly. Not cost effective at all. If you want this for gaming it may perform fine, or to check email and then go online… But if you are a multi-tasker this may not be for you.

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    laptop

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    Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    i love this machine its fast and easy to use. im glad i bought it

    I would recommend this to a friend
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