How we examined

Mashable employees hands-on examined all the Chromebooks featured on this information, utilizing them for work and leisure for a number of weeks at a time. This concerned inspecting their construct high quality, working in several sorts of paperwork, checking emails, watching movies, taking photographs on their webcams, collaborating in video calls, listening to music (through Spotify), taking part in video games, and experimenting with any distinctive software program options or use instances they claimed to assist.

Moreover, we ran two benchmark exams on the HP loaners. (We did not get an opportunity to place the Acer Chromebook 516 GE via the identical paces throughout our restricted testing interval.) A kind of exams was the Android model of Primate Labs’ Geekbench 6, which measures processor efficiency in a handful of frequent duties. We recorded every of the HP Chromebooks’ multi-core scores in our opinions. The upper the rating, the higher.

We additionally had every of our HP testing items run the battery life portion of CrXPRT 2, a Chromebook-specific benchmark. (To measure the Acer Chromebook 516 GE’s battery life, we merely performed video games on it and monitored how lengthy it lasted.) We glance to see about 9 to 10 hours of battery life within the Chromebooks we assessment, with eight hours being our baseline.

After evaluating every mannequin’s efficiency in these real-world and benchmark exams, we made our ultimate suggestions based mostly on whether or not we thought they supplied a very good total worth for the cash.

It is value mentioning that the HP Chromebook Plus 15.6-inch, the HP Chromebook Plus x360 14c, and the Acer Chromebook 516 GE are the one Chromebooks we have examined to date in 2024. Whereas we imagine all three of them are very stable purchases, we all know there’s loads of competitors on the market. As talked about up high, count on this information to evolve over the approaching months as we check heaps extra fashions. (Subsequent up: the ASUS Chromebook Plus CX34.)