A lot of Chromebooks are cheap laptops with barebones specs. But a handful of models come out each year which are designed for folks that want a semi-premium notebook that just happens to ship with Google’s ChromeOS rather than Windows, macOS, or another desktop operating system. Case in point: last year’s Acer Chromebook Spin 714 […]
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Acer Swift X 16 laptop coming this summer with up to Ryzen 9 7940H and discrete graphics
No Comments on Acer Swift X 16 laptop coming this summer with up to Ryzen 9 7940H and discrete graphicsThe Acer Swift X line of laptops are known for their sleek designs, so it’s no surprise that the new Acer Swift X16 SFX16-61G measures less than 0.7 inches thick and weighs less than 4.2 pounds, despite having a large 16 inch display. What is a little surprising is that Asus also managed to cram a 76 […]
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Acer Predator Triton 14 is a 3.75 pound gaming laptop with up to a 250 Hz display, Intel Raptor Lake, and NVIDIA RTX 40 series
No Comments on Acer Predator Triton 14 is a 3.75 pound gaming laptop with up to a 250 Hz display, Intel Raptor Lake, and NVIDIA RTX 40 seriesThe Acer Predator Triton 14 (PT14-51) is a 3.75 pound notebook with a 14 inch, 16:10 display, an Intel Core i7-13700H Raptor Lake processor, and support for up to 32GB of LPDDR5-6000 memory. But what makes it unusual by 14 inch laptop standards is that the Predator Triton 14 is a gaming notebook. It’s available with up […]
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Acer Swift 14 with 2.5K display and Core i7-13700H now available
The Acer Swift 14 (SF14-71T-74F) is a thin and light notebook with a 14 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen display, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and an Intel Core i7-13700H processor with 14 cores and 20 threads. First announced during CES in January, the laptop is now available from Acer for for […]
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Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon, Motorola’s next flip-phone, and a new Acer Android tablet
2 Comments on Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon, Motorola’s next flip-phone, and a new Acer Android tabletMotorola has been selling phones with foldable displays under the Razr brand for for the past few years. Like the classic Motorola Razr, these new phones are basically flip phones. But thanks to the flexible OLED display on the inside, when unfolded they offer the full-screen experience you’d expect from a modern Android smartphone. They […]
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Acer Aspire 3 review: An affordable laptop with an AMD “Mendocino” processor
The Acer Aspire 3 (A315-24P-R758B) is a budget laptop that shows you don’t need to spend an arm and a leg to get decent performance… as long as you temper your expectations. The notebook offers an interesting value proposition: pay $400 and you get a 4 pound notebook with a 15.6 inch full HD display, 8GB of LPDDR5 […]
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Acer launches four new Intel-powered Chromebooks for the education market
Acer’s latest Chromebooks for the education market are small notebooks with 11.6 inch or 12 inch HD displays, support for up to 8GB of RAM and up to 64GB or 128GB of storage, depending on the model. The company is introducing four new models, with starting prices ranging from $380 to $500. Some models are […]
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Acer Aspire 3 laptop with Intel Core i3-N305 now available for $480 and up
Intel’s Alder Lake-N line of processors are low-cost, low-power chips designed for entry-level laptops, tablets, and mini PCs. But Intel says the Intel Core i3-N305 processor, which is the highest-performance Alder Lake-N chip to date, offers the kind of performance you’d expect from a Core i3 processor… thus the name. Now one of the first […]
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Acer introduces Swift 14 Go laptop with a 90 Hz, 2.8K OLED display and up to Ryzen 7 7735U
2 Comments on Acer introduces Swift 14 Go laptop with a 90 Hz, 2.8K OLED display and up to Ryzen 7 7735UThe Acer Swift Go 14 (SFG14-42) is a laptop with a up to a 14 inch, 2800 x 1800 pixel OLED display featuring a 90 Hz refresh rate and an AMD Ryzen 7035U “Rembrandt-R” processor with a Zen 3+ CPU and RDNA 2 graphics. It also compact computer that measures just 14.9mm (0.6 inches) thick […]
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Acer Swift Go 14 and 16 are compact laptops with high-res OLED displays
Acer’s new Swift Go line of laptops are thin, light, and powerful machines with impressive displays. Two of the first models announced are the Swift Go 14 (SFG14-71) and Swift Go 16 (SFG16-71), which have high-resolution OLED displays featuring 120 Hz refresh rates, 500 nits peak brightness, and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, among other things. Both notebooks feature 13th-gen […]