This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Black Friday is approaching, but you don’t have to wait for great savings to hit the shelves: Many retailers are offering extra savings throughout the season. Office Depot is cutting prices all season long with their Holiday Deals of the …
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Microsoft’s trying to shoulder Google out of the way for a spot at the education trough — again — with a low-end Surface sibling. The Surface Laptop SE is a clamshell laptop priced between $249 and $329, depending on the configuration, which will sell via education suppliers. It’s designed to run only Windows 11 SE, the company’s new pared-to-the-bone operating …
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Late in 2020, Acer released the Swift 3X, the PC maker’s first laptop using Iris Xe Max discrete graphics, Intel’s first discrete GPU in more than 20 years. The boost in graphics performance elevated the Swift 3X from just a good, general-purpose, thin-and-light laptop to one that could be used for entry-level content creation. With the Swift X, Acer kept the …
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High-end gaming laptops like the Alienware m17 R4 and Razer Blade 17 are fun to test because of their amazing performance and ground-breaking designs and features. But when it comes down to it, they’re completely impractical for my laptop needs, and I’m not about to spend upward of $4,000 when I can get all the graphics performance I need in …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Looking to upgrade your monitor or laptop? Amazon has good news for you. The mega-retailer is highlighting a wide assortment of both on its pre-Black Friday “Epic Deals” page from a nice array of brands, including Acer, Dell, ViewSonic, LG, Asus and Philips. See at …
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Acer announced four Chromebooks as part of the company’s global Next@Acer event on Wednesday. The new models include 14- and 15.6-inch clamshells — the Acer Chromebook 515 and 514 — as well as two 14-inch two-in-ones, the Chromebook Spin 514 and Spin 314. Shipments of Chromebooks exploded in 2020 from the pandemic and remained strong through the first half of 2021. That growth is showing …
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Acer is growing its eco-friendly Vero product line to include new PCs and accessories made from recycled plastics and packaged in recyclable materials. The product announcements, part of the company’s global Next@Acer event on Wednesday, follow the recent release of the Aspire Vero laptop, which was announced at Acer’s last global event in May, and coincided with the launch of …
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Acer’s Next@Acer fall product launch event, themed “Made for humanity,” highlighted “how Acer is helping make the ways we work, learn and play better for humanity and the environment.” Those ways include an expansion of its eco-friendly Vero line, which began with the Aspire Vero laptop, to more systems, plus four Chromebooks, a new Predator Orion 7000 gaming tower with …
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Microsoft goes for sleeker and more sensible rather than ground-breaking with the 14-inch Surface Laptop Studio, replacing the dated docked-tablet of its Surface Book 3 and its 2015-era design. Still targeted at creators and gamers, the Laptop Studio’s distinguishing feature is its three-position 120Hz display: In addition to a standard clamshell, typing-oriented position, you can pull it out to angle …
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The 15.6-inch Aspire Vero is one of Acer’s first laptops to ship with Windows 11 alongside updated versions of its ultraportable Swift 5 and entry-level Nitro 5 gaming laptops. The Vero is entirely new, though. Well, not entirely new, as it’s Acer’s first laptop made from post-consumer recycled plastics, and it ships in packaging made from recycled materials that are also 100% recyclable. …
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