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Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon, Motorola’s next flip-phone, and a new Acer Android tablet

Motorola 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

The 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 […]

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Acer Chromebox CXI5 with Intel Alder lake coming soon for $290 and up (along with optional Add-in-One 24 inch display)

Acer’s latest Chromebox is a compact desktop computer with support for up to a 12th-gen Intel Core i7 processor with Intel vPro technology. The Acer Chromebox CXI5 also features support for WiFi 6E, a 2.5 GbE Ethernet port, and two USB4 Type-C ports with support for 40 Gbps data transfer speeds. But one of the most unusual […]

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Acer’s eKinekt Bike Desk lets you power your laptop by pedaling

Sitting for prolonged periods may or may not eventually kill you, but in recent years a number of companies have introduced alternatives for folks who’d prefer to stand, walk, or even ride a bike at their desk. Acer’s new eKinekt Bike Desk goes a step further. Not only does it let you get some exercise […]

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AMD Mendocino benchmarks (Acer Aspire 3 with Ryzen 3 7320U)

AMD’s Mendocino processors for low-cost laptops generated a bit of buzz when they were announced earlier this year. In order to keep costs low while offering decent performance, AMD equips these chips with Zen 2 CPU cores (which debuted in 2019) and RDNA 2 graphics (from 2022). You know what else has Zen 2 CPU […]

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Acer Aspire 3 is the first budget laptop with an AMD Mendocino processor

The new Acer Aspire 3 (A315-24P-R75B) is a budget laptop with a 15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS LCD display, 8GB of RAM, at least 128GB of solid state storage, and a starting price under $400. It’s also one of the first laptops to hit the market featuring an AMD Mendocino processor. That’s a new line […]