![]() The Tab 10 also has poor cameras and speakers, all in a tablet that costs the same as an iPad. It's disappointing, however, that the battery life barely lasts school day and that the performance is slower than that of competitors. The stylus works well, and the tablet is powerful enough to handle a few rounds of PUBG once kids are off the clock. See how Acer performed on our Tech Support Showdown and Best and Worst Brands ranking.Īcer's Chromebook Tab 10 is quite the looker and offers a lot of exclusive educational apps. This image was naturally more crisp, but the camera still has the same sharpness issue as the front camera, and so the images turn out very blotchy.Īcer offers a one-year limited warranty with the Chromebook Tab 10. The 5-MP rear camera also managed colors well, as my incredibly nerdy Goku statue looked bold due to the character's bright orange gi and blue belt. The camera did well enough to manage contrast though, as the ceiling lights weren't blown out and my face was bright enough that you could see my pores. However, the image looked unnaturally blotchy and grainy, as if I had dialed the sharpness tab to the max. The 2-megapixel front camera captured the blue and lint-size-white design across my shirt quite well. ![]() The Chromebook Tab 10 just barely lasts a school day, putting it at a severe disadvantage compared to the iPad (10:07) and Tab 4 10 Plus (13:06). The benefit of a Chrome OS tablet in schools is that students can access exclusive apps like Adobe Spark, Lego Education and Google Expeditions AR, the latter of which launches soon.Īfter surfing the web continuously over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, the Chromebook Tab 10 lasted only 6 hours and 49 minutes, falling to a third under the 9:43 average for slates. The program would make it easier to learn visually. This feature would give kids access to Google Expeditions AR, which can map out a classroom and allow the placement of 3D objects that relate to subjects like biology, geography and astronomy. One highlight that was supposed to arrive in this tablet was augmented reality support, which Google now says will be available sometime in the fall. But because the operating system itself is pretty barren, there are no noticable differences in tablet form. It does, however, have access to the Google Play store and, therefore, Android apps. The Chrome OS is basically a stripped-down version of a normal operating system that operates solely through the Google Chrome web browser. ![]() The Chromebook Tab 10 is the world's first Chrome OS tablet, but being first isn't necessarily a good thing. However, we also tested the Chromebook Tab 10's web performance on the JetStream JavaScript benchmark, and Acer's tablet scored a 50, falling below the category average of 75 and the iPad's 158. MORE: Laptops with the Best Productivity Performance It's important to note that the Chromebook Tab 10 has to use an Android emulator in order to run the Geekbench 4 app, and that may account for some lack in performance. The Tab 4 10 Plus and iPad did much better, at 4,097 and 5,983, respectively. On the Geekbench 4 overall performance test, the Chromebook Tab 10 scored 3,161, which is just slightly under the 3,663 average for slates. While PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds didn't look that great, the Chromebook Tab 10's graphics performance was smooth enough for me to get four kills, which is the best I've ever done in any PUBG game I've played. While education is fine and all, kids will also likely want to use the Chromebook Tab 10 to play games, and that it does. I found the Auto Rotate feature frustrating, however, as the tablet would often flip the display with the slightest motion leaning toward a particular side. The Chromebook Tab 10 accurately picked up my finger as I navigated through the Chrome OS. While the Tab 4 10 Plus didn't make the average either, at 400 nits, the iPad blasted it away, with 489 nits. MORE: Laptops with the Best Display BrightnessĪcer's tablet produced 382 nits of brightness, which is behind the 416-nit category average. The Lenovo Tab 4 10 Plus hit 109 percent, and the iPad reproduced 119 percent. The Chromebook Tab 10's panel covers 107 percent of the sRGB color gamut, and while that holds up against the 105 percent slate average, the Tab 10's competitors are more colorful. And when Magneto was being his emotional old self, I noticed that his short, fuzzy beard was incredibly sharp. Despite some glare, I picked up everything on screen as Beast walked atop a hill on an ominously dark day. ![]() Even the buildings far in the backdrop were bolded in a combo of blue and yellow colors. When Jean Grey looked over a grassy field in the trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the wilderness looked rich and pure, as if I were standing there with her. ![]()
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