No backlit keyboard on Acer chromebook spin 513

Chrisbuckland

I’ve just bought the Acer Chromebook Spin 513 from John Lewis, it specified it has a backlit keyboard and in the pictures it showed the backlit keyboard however it hasn’t come on for me and I can’t find an button on my keyboard to activate it? (There are no F keys)

billsey

What is the full model number? It should be something like CP513-xxx-xxxx. Some models have the keyboard backlight and some do not. Usually there's a little difference in price and it's easy to grab the one that's $20 cheaper without noticing.

TeresaM19

Bought a Spin 3 (SP314-54N 38TM) from Argos, description states a backlit keyboard but no backlit symbol.
All FN keys have symbols apart from F8
Annoyed as this happened with HP as well  

billsey

All specs I see on the SP314-54N-38TM model do not have a backlit keyboard. It sounds like the vendor (Argos?) screwed up with their description.

Easwar

Hi @Chrisbuckland,

There's no keyboard backlight, though, which is a shame. The US version of the same laptop does appear to have a keyboard backlight, but we don't get one in the UK model. The UK's Acer Chromebook Spin does have a great Gorilla Glass touchpad.

patrickt141

On my Spin 513, CP513-2H-K62Y, the backlighting suddenly quit working. I did alt/brightness key and that will show you if you have backlighting. I also have a Spin 311, older, and when I do the shortcut for backlighting nothing happens. On my 513 the shortcut showed backlighting but it wasn't working. I did an powerwash and it's back to working.