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Not quite a year ago, I acquired an Acer Spin 1 (SP111-32N-P5MH) convertible laptop. To look at, it’s a crisp, cool unit; it’s just over 1.4 cm thick, and its outer body is all metal (brushed metal for the most part, with some polished metal at the hinges). It weighs in at 1.25 kg, and it is one of those laptop models that can fold past 180 degrees — into “tent” mode, or all the way over into “tablet” mode.

On paper, the system specs aren’t particularly impressive: the processor is an Intel Pentium N4200 (quad core, 1.10 GHz), which sports Intel HD Graphics 505. It has 4 GB of DDR3L RAM, and 64 GB of eMMC storage. The display is rather noteworthy, however, being a full HD (1920×1080) panel measuring 11.6” diagonally…and which can reproduce over 100% of the sRGB colour space. The screen is a pen-enabled touchscreen, and the Spin 1 ships with the Acer Active Stylus.

And yet, this little unit has become my go-to laptop — my “daily driver” — for just about everything but hardcore gaming.

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