We review the Acer Aspire 5 Spin 14, a foldable notebook that offers impressive tablet functionality at a more affordable price compared to its competitors.
In our experience, making a notebook “foldable” while allowing marketing teams to spin up the old “it’s two devices in one, guys, a notebook and a tablet” line, generally only serves to inflate the price of the device., which despite its middling performance and hardware retailed at the time for R30 000 – just short of the same RRP as a premium gaming notebook.
With the Expertbook, we argued that the folding nature served only as a gimmick and that professionals who actually require the kind of accessibility a tablet provides would rather get more specialised hardware like a Wacom board, or an iPad. And then we received yet another folding notebook to review from rival brand Acer South Africa, namely the Aspire 5 Spin 14, which is even more impressive in its “foldability” and tablet-ing, and it’s cheaper than the Expertbook. We think the Aspire 5 may be nearing the sweet spot for these kinds of devices, but there was some distinct lack in a few department
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