September 5, 2025 • 18 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A review of the ‘Acer Chromebook Plus 516’ on ‘Tech Thursday’ with regular guest contributor; (author, podcast host, and technology pundit) Marsha Collier - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Live everywhere, on the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube, joining
me in studio as customary on Thursdays, especially now that
I'm back from my vacation. Marsha Collier, It's always wonderful
to see her smiling face and her lovely, gorgeous red hair.
Marsha's good to season. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Great to see you, mo.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I was following your travels, and I know a lot
of people on the internet were following your travels. It
was great that you shared everything. I on the other hand,
I'm not as wonderful as you. I don't share everything.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't either, but I try to when it's appropriate
bring people in. But it has to make sense because
I'm not that guy who shares everything. I'm not that
guy who's going to take a picture of every meal
that I have or you know, food porn.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
That's just not who I am. But my wife was.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Patient enough to understand that there are things that I
had to do for the sake of what I do,
but it's just not naturally what I do.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
She took one for the crowd.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
She did. She said, just keep me out of the pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I said, okay, well, I have to tell you that
while you were going in actually the past six weeks.
I have been a Microsoft person since really three point one.
I'm Microsoft. I've tried Apple computers. It's not for me,
and it's great for some people. You know, it depends
(01:33):
whether you like one or the other. But I think
I'm sold on a different operating system.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
A different operating system.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I tested this laptop by Acer. It's the Acer Chrome
Book Plus and plus is an important word here.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I've had two or three Chrome Books, so I have
a working knowledge of them. And Daniel want to be
switch over to Kurtz h Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, so you can get a better look at it.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We advise you to tune into the YouTube feed so
you can see what we're talking about at mister mom
Kelly on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, this is the home screen.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's beautiful and during the day when I first got
here and opened it, it was daylight. Now it's nighttime.
Before I give you the spec. Since we have the
camera over here, let me tell you that you never
get any stuff crowded around.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It always opens up clean.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
When you open it up, a little pop up in
the center says to you, do you want to go
back to where what you were.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Doing when you shut it off, or do you want
to start fresh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
You can do that with Google Chrome the browser.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You can set that in the settings where you want
where you close out, or you can pick up where
you left off, or just go to your homepage.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But what I think is awesome here is it's the
whole page, the whole thing, the whole desktop, the whole desktop.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And at the bottom, Kurt, if we can get the
camera it has, let me just open up.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We have there's Chrome. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now you can see how many different tabs I have open.
I have a bajillion tabs open because that's my style.
And at the very bottom it says desk one. If
I click it again, I can go to a second
desk and open another browser and I can load those
(03:36):
all up. I've loaded both of the browsers with over
thirty tabs and the computer hasn't crashed.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Historically that we were locked up immediately, Frank, just the
usage of RAM.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And see now I'm going back and forth from desk
one to desk two and it's your regular Chrome browser.
So that in itself is incredible. If I knew we
were going to be able to do this. I would
have played a video for you from YouTube, but I
don't want to screw up your Wi Fi situation.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You have, okay, a Chromebook. It runs Chrome OS, it's
its own operating system. It does allow you to run
variations of Android apps, which I think is very cool
as far as synergy with my phone. But I've always
(04:32):
had a concern with the total amount of apps which
are available.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Honest Microsoft, Okay, honestly, I don't use the apps built
in at the bottom of the screen on Kurtz Camera.
You can say that I have Chrome, I have Gemini,
which I don't use. There's gaming, there's notebook LM, which
is one of the Gemini things.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Gaming, Chrome.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
SEP one for Google Calendar, and if I want it's
new there's a G button and that opens up things
that you can open up and look at, and the
various different apps that come with it. But I've checked
it all out, and to be honest with you, doing
everything through the browser has made more sense.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The only thing I wish it chromebooks had was a
more sophisticated audio editing capability.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If I had that, then I'll be good because you
can use it with Google Drive, which is an analog
to the Microsoft Suite.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Let me give you first of all, this screen that
you were looking at, that's unbelievably bright.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's a w u XGA, And I said, what the
heck is that?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's ultra ultra wide wide, ultra extra cool.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Is that, like I'm guessing, is that maybe a seventeen
inch laptop.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's a sixteen inch so it has a resolution of
nineteen twenty by twelve hundred pixels. So the WUXGA stands
for wide Ultra Extended Graphics Array. And it's nineteen hundred
by twelve hundred instead of nineteen twenty excuse me, twelve
hundred instead of the nineteen twenty byte ten eighty which
(06:31):
most laptops are. So you have a little more vertical
to your screen, which I like, the extra space. I
like a little more space towards the top. So it's
got sixteen ten ratio, unbelievable. Some of the things that
I really love about it. It's got eight gigabytes of memory.
(06:55):
Oh the ram yep YEP, I mean eight a core
seven for Intel processor.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So as fast as can be.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Okay, and I have to pull out my own chart
because this has more ports than any other computer I've
ever had. Honestly, we have there's a power, two microphones,
a camera with a shutter so you can turn the
odd and off, which I really like. You don't have
(07:25):
to put a band aid up there for your webcam
sixteen inch display. On the side you have two USB
type C posts ports and then a USB Type A port.
How much stuff do you have to use an adapter
to see? You know, to fit into a C. This
(07:49):
makes it so that you can still use and it's
three point two generation. Acer has done an amazing job
with this sounds plastically to me, but it's millspeck if
you dry. I haven't dropped it to test it because
I'd like to keep it around for a well. On
(08:10):
this side you have another three point two type A
USB port. Oh, and there's also a headset jack on
this side, so if you want to wear wired headsets
you can do.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I don't do buds.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't do buds.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You get a numeric keypad that's almost never I mean,
how cool is that. The touch pad, of course, which
is a special glass that is recyclable blah blah blah.
But there's a lot of great for the environment thing
in this. I know they'd love for me to say
all the different things. But it's energy Star. It's so
(08:51):
much recyclable that it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh, very quickly before we go to break price point.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
MSRP.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yes, that's nothing in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh yeah, we can talk a little more when we
get back.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Let's do that. It's Later with mo Kelly. Marshall Collier
joins us in studio on this Tech Thursday. We're talking
about acer Chromebook plus five one six, three hundred and
ninety nine dollars, all the bells, all the whistles, none
of the financial uh.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And it's so fast it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
More in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
CAFI Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. And
if you are tuned into us right now on YouTube,
good for you because you've already been seeing this wonderful
presentation from Marshall Collier who joins us in studio. If
you haven't been tuning in, I suggest you tune in
right now. So go to YouTube dot com or the
(09:57):
YouTube app and look up mister mo Kelly, Mr m
ok E L L Y Marshall Collier. Last segment, you
were giving us a very thorough demonstration of the new
ace Er Chromebook plus five one six MSRP manufacturer suggestion,
which is nothing in the world of computers.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And just so you know, the word plus after Chromebook,
that means it's got an advanced set of hardware in it.
As I said, Intel Core seven processor, what was the memory?
H eight eight gigs of RAM? And then let me
say I have one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of
(10:41):
flash storage. And when you have three USB A ports,
you can buy all the one terabyte flash drives you can.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You can eat right, you don't need that internal storage?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No, no, you can store.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, I'm going to put my book on there, and
I'm going to put my podcast down there, and you
can just attach different flash drives. It's absolutely Oh, it's
so the DTS audio. I don't know what DTS stands for,
but maybe someone in the comment section will.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But but you were saying there was a high quality sound, stereo.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Sound, got optimized bass travel response, and micron speaker distortion prevention.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
If I could jump in there, because now our laptops,
our devices have to have exceptional sound because we're either
listening to music, we're either gaming, we're either watching movies.
So that's a part of the complete media experience.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And one of the things I love about this is
if I want to dictate an email, all I have
to do is press the G which is the search key,
the Google key, and the D and I just start
talking and it flawlessly. Speech to text, speech to text flawlessly.
ACER has done such a job. And you know, I
(12:01):
can't be over the moon enough because I've felt enslaved
by Microsoft operating System for so long. I think ACER
just really did it this time. They've been working, They've
been there's a lot of brands who have Chromebooks, but
this Chromebook Plus. Also people have mentioned I was reading
on Reddit, you know there's been battery problems in chromebooks. Well,
(12:26):
in a Chromebook Plus, you've got a big battery, but
you've got a lot of hardware going. But you know what,
somebody made a comment. You can just buy a battery
for thirty five dollars and replace it yourself. And if
you don't want to do that. You've got places like
I fix It where it isn't that much more expensive
because these are easy to work on.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's been a long time since we've been able to
replace a battery on any level on any of our devices.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
It's absolutely I'm shocked there. It connects to my phone.
I have all these little buttons, US keyboard sound. It's
all at a touch of my my hand, all of
these different apps.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Would you agree that it would be perfect for a student,
be a high school or college where you have the
processing power and the affordability where you could get it
and it's not going to set you back like a
Mac which made me two grand.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I recommend this computer for I'd say eighty five percent
of the population. My problem is I know some heavy
duty geeks, so they need a special computer. This computer
is fast. It's lightning fast when you change pages. It
(13:47):
does everything I want. It doesn't get hot like my Dell.
My Dell computer like starts heating up if because I
have to have it plugged in when I'm doing my podcast,
and all of a sudden it's getting hot, and I'm
afraid the whole thing's going to be low up in
front of me. I couldn't be happier and I really
just can't recommend it enough anything I missed. Yeah, I'm
(14:10):
in love with having the Numeric pad, International language support,
moisture resistant.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We don't know what.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It is, but in other words, you might get some
rain drops on it, but don't drop it in the bathtube.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think I did.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You got a point and Intel UHD graphics, you know,
and it's got an FHD facial exposure camera nineteen twenty
by ten eighty.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Now I don't know what that.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Means, but eighty the screen resolution.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's what it'll go to. That's what it'll go to.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But the point is, I look at everything, the fact
that the camera has a shutter. And there are those
of us who think that, you know, our computers.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Can be watching us.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They are and this one, this one has a shutter
over the camera.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I usually will tape something over it, cover it somehow.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So yes, but I really think it's the future for
most people. If you still want to use Microsoft, you
can use Microsoft three sixty five, even though you know
you have Google Docs and Google Spreadsheet and all that anyway,
But if you have to, like I have to with
my publisher, I can go and use Microsoft three sixty five.
(15:32):
It just isn't installed on the computer. I gotta tell you,
I have not recommended anything as highly as this in ages.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
That's high praise.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Really, I'm so impressed. I'm looking forward now.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
There is a gaming one that's even more firepower than
this one. But this three ninety nine MSRP dest spy.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I know you have thirty five hundred phones. Did you
do you have any time to work with it in
sync with your phone?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes, I because I've been doing this for about a
month and a half, because I didn't want to give
you a review until i'd really played with it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's very similar to Microsoft Windows, but you have to
you have to learn some commands, like how do you
pull up the emoji keyboard? How do you do a
screen capture? I just google it, you know, I can
find out easy enough.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I know when I use my phone in conjunction with
my devices. If you don't use Android, like for example,
your text messages, you can have your text messages synchronize
to your your laptop or desktop and get your messages
and also text people from your chromebook. Those are the
(16:54):
things which I appreciate about Android. I can't speak for
Apple or Microsoft, but those are the things.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I think.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's value added in the experience working in the same ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But this is Chrome, It's not Android. The Chrome os
is its own. Yes, it's it's an own animal.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You won't know it until you try it, you know,
the little F one, F two, F three, whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Those keys at the top.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The function keys, I actually use them, they're my volume keys.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, I don't have that little gigi.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I do actually have that little gigi in the bottom,
but now I've learned to use those keys so much
easier screen captured.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I've never heard such a glowing review from you on
any product. So the acer Chromebook plus five one six
makes the grade.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It absolutely does, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I'm I'm going to maybe tell them I lost it
and I can't say it back.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But you said it out loud. There might be three
people listening, not.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Including tone right exactly. But anyway, yeah, I highly recommend it.
It's you know, and if you buy things at some
places you have a thirty day return policy, so it is.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
A little different. There is a learning curve.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It is a little weird in the beginning, but once
you get homing with it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It's perfect.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Marshall Collier is always great seeing you.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's good seeing you. Mo I have something new for
you next week too.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere, on the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube, joining
me in studio as customary on Thursdays, especially now that
I'm back from my vacation. Marsha Collier, It's always wonderful
to see her smiling face and her lovely, gorgeous red hair.
Marsha's good to season. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Great to see you, mo.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I was following your travels, and I know a lot
of people on the internet were following your travels. It
was great that you shared everything. I on the other hand,
I'm not as wonderful as you. I don't share everything.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't either, but I try to when it's appropriate
bring people in. But it has to make sense because
I'm not that guy who shares everything. I'm not that
guy who's going to take a picture of every meal
that I have or you know, food porn.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
That's just not who I am. But my wife was.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Patient enough to understand that there are things that I
had to do for the sake of what I do,
but it's just not naturally what I do.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
She took one for the crowd.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
She did. She said, just keep me out of the pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I said, okay, well, I have to tell you that
while you were going in actually the past six weeks.
I have been a Microsoft person since really three point one.
I'm Microsoft. I've tried Apple computers. It's not for me,
and it's great for some people. You know, it depends
(01:33):
whether you like one or the other. But I think
I'm sold on a different operating system.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
A different operating system.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I tested this laptop by Acer. It's the Acer Chrome
Book Plus and plus is an important word here.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I've had two or three Chrome Books, so I have
a working knowledge of them. And Daniel want to be
switch over to Kurtz h Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, so you can get a better look at it.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We advise you to tune into the YouTube feed so
you can see what we're talking about at mister mom
Kelly on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, this is the home screen.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's beautiful and during the day when I first got
here and opened it, it was daylight. Now it's nighttime.
Before I give you the spec. Since we have the
camera over here, let me tell you that you never
get any stuff crowded around.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It always opens up clean.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
When you open it up, a little pop up in
the center says to you, do you want to go
back to where what you were.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Doing when you shut it off, or do you want
to start fresh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
You can do that with Google Chrome the browser.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You can set that in the settings where you want
where you close out, or you can pick up where
you left off, or just go to your homepage.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But what I think is awesome here is it's the
whole page, the whole thing, the whole desktop, the whole desktop.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And at the bottom, Kurt, if we can get the
camera it has, let me just open up.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We have there's Chrome. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now you can see how many different tabs I have open.
I have a bajillion tabs open because that's my style.
And at the very bottom it says desk one. If
I click it again, I can go to a second
desk and open another browser and I can load those
(03:36):
all up. I've loaded both of the browsers with over
thirty tabs and the computer hasn't crashed.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Historically that we were locked up immediately, Frank, just the
usage of RAM.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And see now I'm going back and forth from desk
one to desk two and it's your regular Chrome browser.
So that in itself is incredible. If I knew we
were going to be able to do this. I would
have played a video for you from YouTube, but I
don't want to screw up your Wi Fi situation.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You have, okay, a Chromebook. It runs Chrome OS, it's
its own operating system. It does allow you to run
variations of Android apps, which I think is very cool
as far as synergy with my phone. But I've always
(04:32):
had a concern with the total amount of apps which
are available.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Honest Microsoft, Okay, honestly, I don't use the apps built
in at the bottom of the screen on Kurtz Camera.
You can say that I have Chrome, I have Gemini,
which I don't use. There's gaming, there's notebook LM, which
is one of the Gemini things.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Gaming, Chrome.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
SEP one for Google Calendar, and if I want it's
new there's a G button and that opens up things
that you can open up and look at, and the
various different apps that come with it. But I've checked
it all out, and to be honest with you, doing
everything through the browser has made more sense.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The only thing I wish it chromebooks had was a
more sophisticated audio editing capability.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If I had that, then I'll be good because you
can use it with Google Drive, which is an analog
to the Microsoft Suite.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Let me give you first of all, this screen that
you were looking at, that's unbelievably bright.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's a w u XGA, And I said, what the
heck is that?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's ultra ultra wide wide, ultra extra cool.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Is that, like I'm guessing, is that maybe a seventeen
inch laptop.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's a sixteen inch so it has a resolution of
nineteen twenty by twelve hundred pixels. So the WUXGA stands
for wide Ultra Extended Graphics Array. And it's nineteen hundred
by twelve hundred instead of nineteen twenty excuse me, twelve
hundred instead of the nineteen twenty byte ten eighty which
(06:31):
most laptops are. So you have a little more vertical
to your screen, which I like, the extra space. I
like a little more space towards the top. So it's
got sixteen ten ratio, unbelievable. Some of the things that
I really love about it. It's got eight gigabytes of memory.
(06:55):
Oh the ram yep YEP, I mean eight a core
seven for Intel processor.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So as fast as can be.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Okay, and I have to pull out my own chart
because this has more ports than any other computer I've
ever had. Honestly, we have there's a power, two microphones,
a camera with a shutter so you can turn the
odd and off, which I really like. You don't have
(07:25):
to put a band aid up there for your webcam
sixteen inch display. On the side you have two USB
type C posts ports and then a USB Type A port.
How much stuff do you have to use an adapter
to see? You know, to fit into a C. This
(07:49):
makes it so that you can still use and it's
three point two generation. Acer has done an amazing job
with this sounds plastically to me, but it's millspeck if
you dry. I haven't dropped it to test it because
I'd like to keep it around for a well. On
(08:10):
this side you have another three point two type A
USB port. Oh, and there's also a headset jack on
this side, so if you want to wear wired headsets
you can do.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I don't do buds.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't do buds.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You get a numeric keypad that's almost never I mean,
how cool is that. The touch pad, of course, which
is a special glass that is recyclable blah blah blah.
But there's a lot of great for the environment thing
in this. I know they'd love for me to say
all the different things. But it's energy Star. It's so
(08:51):
much recyclable that it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh, very quickly before we go to break price point.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
MSRP.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yes, that's nothing in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh yeah, we can talk a little more when we
get back.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Let's do that. It's Later with mo Kelly. Marshall Collier
joins us in studio on this Tech Thursday. We're talking
about acer Chromebook plus five one six, three hundred and
ninety nine dollars, all the bells, all the whistles, none
of the financial uh.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And it's so fast it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
More in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
CAFI Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. And
if you are tuned into us right now on YouTube,
good for you because you've already been seeing this wonderful
presentation from Marshall Collier who joins us in studio. If
you haven't been tuning in, I suggest you tune in
right now. So go to YouTube dot com or the
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YouTube app and look up mister mo Kelly, Mr m
ok E L L Y Marshall Collier. Last segment, you
were giving us a very thorough demonstration of the new
ace Er Chromebook plus five one six MSRP manufacturer suggestion,
which is nothing in the world of computers.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And just so you know, the word plus after Chromebook,
that means it's got an advanced set of hardware in it.
As I said, Intel Core seven processor, what was the memory?
H eight eight gigs of RAM? And then let me
say I have one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of
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flash storage. And when you have three USB A ports,
you can buy all the one terabyte flash drives you can.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You can eat right, you don't need that internal storage?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No, no, you can store.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, I'm going to put my book on there, and
I'm going to put my podcast down there, and you
can just attach different flash drives. It's absolutely Oh, it's
so the DTS audio. I don't know what DTS stands for,
but maybe someone in the comment section will.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But but you were saying there was a high quality sound, stereo.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Sound, got optimized bass travel response, and micron speaker distortion prevention.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
If I could jump in there, because now our laptops,
our devices have to have exceptional sound because we're either
listening to music, we're either gaming, we're either watching movies.
So that's a part of the complete media experience.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And one of the things I love about this is
if I want to dictate an email, all I have
to do is press the G which is the search key,
the Google key, and the D and I just start
talking and it flawlessly. Speech to text, speech to text flawlessly.
ACER has done such a job. And you know, I
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can't be over the moon enough because I've felt enslaved
by Microsoft operating System for so long. I think ACER
just really did it this time. They've been working, They've
been there's a lot of brands who have Chromebooks, but
this Chromebook Plus. Also people have mentioned I was reading
on Reddit, you know there's been battery problems in chromebooks. Well,
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in a Chromebook Plus, you've got a big battery, but
you've got a lot of hardware going. But you know what,
somebody made a comment. You can just buy a battery
for thirty five dollars and replace it yourself. And if
you don't want to do that. You've got places like
I fix It where it isn't that much more expensive
because these are easy to work on.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's been a long time since we've been able to
replace a battery on any level on any of our devices.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
It's absolutely I'm shocked there. It connects to my phone.
I have all these little buttons, US keyboard sound. It's
all at a touch of my my hand, all of
these different apps.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Would you agree that it would be perfect for a student,
be a high school or college where you have the
processing power and the affordability where you could get it
and it's not going to set you back like a
Mac which made me two grand.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I recommend this computer for I'd say eighty five percent
of the population. My problem is I know some heavy
duty geeks, so they need a special computer. This computer
is fast. It's lightning fast when you change pages. It
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does everything I want. It doesn't get hot like my Dell.
My Dell computer like starts heating up if because I
have to have it plugged in when I'm doing my podcast,
and all of a sudden it's getting hot, and I'm
afraid the whole thing's going to be low up in
front of me. I couldn't be happier and I really
just can't recommend it enough anything I missed. Yeah, I'm
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in love with having the Numeric pad, International language support,
moisture resistant.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We don't know what.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It is, but in other words, you might get some
rain drops on it, but don't drop it in the bathtube.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think I did.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You got a point and Intel UHD graphics, you know,
and it's got an FHD facial exposure camera nineteen twenty
by ten eighty.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Now I don't know what that.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Means, but eighty the screen resolution.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's what it'll go to. That's what it'll go to.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But the point is, I look at everything, the fact
that the camera has a shutter. And there are those
of us who think that, you know, our computers.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Can be watching us.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They are and this one, this one has a shutter
over the camera.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I usually will tape something over it, cover it somehow.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So yes, but I really think it's the future for
most people. If you still want to use Microsoft, you
can use Microsoft three sixty five, even though you know
you have Google Docs and Google Spreadsheet and all that anyway,
But if you have to, like I have to with
my publisher, I can go and use Microsoft three sixty five.
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It just isn't installed on the computer. I gotta tell you,
I have not recommended anything as highly as this in ages.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
That's high praise.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Really, I'm so impressed. I'm looking forward now.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
There is a gaming one that's even more firepower than
this one. But this three ninety nine MSRP dest spy.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I know you have thirty five hundred phones. Did you
do you have any time to work with it in
sync with your phone?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes, I because I've been doing this for about a
month and a half, because I didn't want to give
you a review until i'd really played with it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's very similar to Microsoft Windows, but you have to
you have to learn some commands, like how do you
pull up the emoji keyboard? How do you do a
screen capture? I just google it, you know, I can
find out easy enough.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I know when I use my phone in conjunction with
my devices. If you don't use Android, like for example,
your text messages, you can have your text messages synchronize
to your your laptop or desktop and get your messages
and also text people from your chromebook. Those are the
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things which I appreciate about Android. I can't speak for
Apple or Microsoft, but those are the things.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I think.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's value added in the experience working in the same ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But this is Chrome, It's not Android. The Chrome os
is its own. Yes, it's it's an own animal.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You won't know it until you try it, you know,
the little F one, F two, F three, whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Those keys at the top.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The function keys, I actually use them, they're my volume keys.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, I don't have that little gigi.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I do actually have that little gigi in the bottom,
but now I've learned to use those keys so much
easier screen captured.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I've never heard such a glowing review from you on
any product. So the acer Chromebook plus five one six
makes the grade.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It absolutely does, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I'm I'm going to maybe tell them I lost it
and I can't say it back.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But you said it out loud. There might be three
people listening, not.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Including tone right exactly. But anyway, yeah, I highly recommend it.
It's you know, and if you buy things at some
places you have a thirty day return policy, so it is.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
A little different. There is a learning curve.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It is a little weird in the beginning, but once
you get homing with it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It's perfect.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Marshall Collier is always great seeing you.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's good seeing you. Mo I have something new for
you next week too.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
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