But, still, I came away impressed, which is more than I can say about the brightness. You’re likely better off locking in at 60fps. You definitely need a stable high-speed internet connection to make sure that you maintain that 120Hz frame rate though, and even then I found it a struggle to keep that 120Hz refresh rate stable. I tested it while playing Destiny 2 at max resolution (which for this Chromebook is QHD) and it looked noticeably better at default settings. The 120Hz refresh rate is a real bonus and is billed as a major selling point for the Acer Chromebook 516 GE. That’s not to say that there were no positives.

The lone bright spot in our testing was that peak brightness was in the center of the display, topping out at 392 nits. Our Klein 10-A colorimeter found that the Chromebook 516 GE displays 107% of the sRGB color spectrum and just 75.8% of the DCI-P3 spectrum (100% is most accurate) and has a Delta-E score of 0.31 (the closer to 0, the better). It also falls short in terms of color range as well. At an average brightness of 346 nits in our testing, it lags behind a lot of the best Chromebooks.

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