Acer refreshes Nitro 7 with beefier specs, thinner form factor

It’s thin but that doesn’t mean it isn’t any less powerful. Acer refreshes its Nitro 7 gaming laptop to get 9^th-gen Intel Core processors and premium NVIDIA GeForce graphics. It comes in a much thinner frame this time at 19.9mm thin. Its brushed metal exterior provides that sleek, cool look to it. It has a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS panel with a 144Hz refresh rate and 3ms response. To avoid overheating as you game hard, you get dual fans, CoolBoost tech, and dual exhaust port. It has two slots available for M.2 Gen 3x4 PCIe SSDs and up to 2TB of HDD storage. You can configure it to have up to 32GB of RAM. Pricing for the Acer Nitro 7 starts at US$999.9 (around CA$1,300).

Source: Stuff

The new Acer TravelMate P6 promises a 20-hour battery life

Acer is giving mobile workers a sturdy new laptop to work with. The TravelMate P6 promises solid performance and a really long battery life. The company is pegging this will have a 20-hour battery life. It’s covered in magnesium alloy and remains non-descript, which is ideal for more buttoned-up corporate settings. It’s a 14-inch machine that’s just 0.65 inches thick. And with MIL-SPEC certification, it can handle a bit of roughing up as you lug it around.

When it comes to security, it has an integrated fingerprint reader and web cam with built-in shutter. Aside from an exceptionally long battery life, you can charge it up to 50 percent in 20 minutes or reach 100 percent in around two hours.

Source: Laptop Mag

Acer unloads new notebooks, Chromebooks, and gaming PCs for 2018

Acer has dropped a whole bunch of hardware including the largest Chromebook laptop at 15.6-inches in the Chromebook Spin 15, which is a convertible 2-in-1 device.  The Acer Swift (pictured above) is a striking notebook that features a 15-inch display but weighs only 2.2 pounds and is ultra-thin.

“There’s  been  great feedback  on  Acer’s  amazingly  light  14-inch  Swift  5 and  we  are  now  pushing the  limits  with  the  15.6-inch  model,”  said  Jerry  Hou,  General  Manager,  Consumer  Notebooks,  IT  Products  Business,  Acer  Inc.

Also announced were a slew of gaming PCs including the Predator Helios and Orion lines.

Acer outs Predator X27, a 4K, HDR, and G-Sync monitor

Acer’s Predator gaming brand is throwing a bone to desktop gamers with its newest monitor. And by bone, we mean all the latest tech it could. The Preador X27 4K monitor doesn’t just feature a true 3,840 x 2,160 resolution. It also has NVIDIA’s G-Sync tech, a graphics card and screen synchronization tech. On top of this, it has full 10-bit HDR support.

But that isn’t all. This 27-inch monitor also has a 144Hz refresh rate, 1,000 nits of brightness (which is a big deal since most HDR screens max out at 600 nits), and 99 percent coverage of the Adobe RGB colors spectrum. This comes at a pretty price, though. It’s available on preorder on Newegg for US$2,000 and will launch on June 1^st.

Source: The Verge