Acer toughens up its kid-focused Chromebook keyboards

Enlarge / Acer Chromebook 314. (credit: Acer)

Acer is taking an interesting approach to durability with four Chromebooks it announced today. Specifically, the kid-focused laptops' keyboards are designed to be hard to damage.

The Chromebook 512 (C852), Chromebook 511 (C734/C734T), Chromebook 314 (C934/C934T), and Chromebook Spin 311 (R722T/R723T) join Acer's education-focused machines with keyboards featuring "mechanically anchored keys." According to the company, that makes it difficult for users-especially curious young students-to rip keys out of the laptops, while still offering keyboards that are easy to repair or replace.

Diagram of the ridge. (credit: Acer)

An Acer spokesperson further explained the keyboard to Ars, saying that a ridge under each key makes it difficult for fingers to get under and pop it out.

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