W hen you first pick up and open the Acer Spin 7 laptop, you’re probably going to be pleasantly surprised. This very thin, well-designed laptop doesn’t try to wow you with its design — instead it’s unassuming. It looks like the platonic ideal of a Windows 10 touchscreen laptop: simple, black, well-made, light, and just ready to quietly get out of the way and let you do your thing. And the emphasis is on "quietly," because the Spin 7 doesn’t have any fans. Even with its hefty asking price of $1,249, it still makes a very good first impression. Sadly, if you’ve been paying attention to laptops for the past six months you know that there’s going to be a "but." Because with the possible exception of the new HP Spectre x360, every new laptop these days has one or several critical flaws that keep it from reaching its potential. In this case, it’s several. The closest analogue to Acer’s Spin 7 isn’t some other Windows laptop, it’s actually the 2016 MacBook. Li...