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There's still a few days to go before Computex 2025 officially kicks off, but not all hardware makers are waiting to unveil new products. Enter Acer, which is blitzing the event with whole bunch of new laptops, desktops, and other gear. Among all of the products it's unveiling, it's the expanded Predator lineup that...
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Acer just announced a bevy of new Aspire AI, Swift Edge, and Swift X Duo series laptops at Computex. Each system caters to different customers and use cases, but all of them feature the latest hardwrare platforms to offer AI-infused Copilot+ features and increased performance in a wide variety of workloads --...
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These are some wild times we living in. Nintendo is pushing the price of first-party games to $80 with the release of its Switch 2 console, Microsoft is jacking up prices of all Xbox hardware (up to $100) and also following suit with higher priced games, and the latest-generation GPUs for PCs are seeing big premiums...
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Slowly but surely, your options for buying a gaming monitor equipped with a cutting-edge quantum dot organic light-emitting diode (QD-OLED) panel are expanding.The latest models to enter the fray are a couple of Acer Predator SKUs, those being the Predator X32 X2 and Predator X27U X1. We bet you can guess the screen...
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One of the neat aspects of graphics cards is in the vast variety of models that release with varying levels of design. To that end, Acer has introduced some interesting custom GPUs of its own, based on the freshly-minted AMD Radeon RX 9070 family. The Acer Predator BiFrost sounds menacing from its name alone, and is...
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Update: 3/13/25, 4:48PM ET - The retail listing noted in this story has been since removed and taken down.
The graphics card launches in 2025 have thus far been a roller coaster ride, with pricing and availability issues across the board. The next likely actor to enter the stage of this drama will be NVIDIA's...
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At least one major laptop maker is getting ready to raise prices in response to US President Donald Trump's 10% tariffs on Chinese imports. According to Acer's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Jason Chen, the upcoming price hikes will be "very straightforward," with plans to raise the cost 10% next month to...
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We're about a month removed from the most recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event in Las Vegas, where Acer made a splash with a bunch of product announcements. Apparently it had even more on tap. Announced today, Acer is expanding its Predator Helios Neo lineup with a couple of brand new gaming laptop lines...
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As was widely anticipated, NVIDIA kicked off this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a new range of GPUs, having now introduced its GeForce RTX 50 series in both desktop and mobile form. That also means a flurry of related announcements from various hardware partners. Count Acer among them, which among other...
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Some of you reading this may not even be aware that Acer has already thrown its hat into the handheld gaming ring. In what's quickly become a battle royale of participants, companies like ASUS (ROG Ally/Ally X), Lenovo (Legion Go), MSI (Claw), and of course Valve (Steam Deck) tend to hog the limelight. Be that as it...
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Acer is going big at CES 2025. The company has a ton of new products to show off, including laptops, desktops, and handheld gaming machines. Some of the new devices in Acer's catalog are also just physically big. No matter your computing preferences, Acer's got something to pique your interest.
Copilot Laptops And...
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Acer has just announced a new gaming laptop to rival all gaming laptops. That's right, Acer's Project DualPlay is here to shake things by offering a controller that's cleverly (and conveniently built right into the touchpad. This joins a series of other impressive announcements this week from Acer, which include...
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If you've been around the block a time or two, then you may recall the race to 1GHz between AMD and Intel (which, despite protests from Intel and its Pentium III silicon, AMD is largely credited with winning with its Athon 1000 Thunderbird chip way back in the day). Now some 25 years later, it seems another race is...
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If it were up to us, a product with "Blaze" in the model name would be unveiled on April 20 for obvious (to some) reasons. Missed opportunity aside, Acer has chosen IFA 2024 as the launchpad for its first gaming handheld, the Nitro Blaze 7 (GN771), which is the latest hardware entry in a growing segment that Valve...
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Intel Gamer Days is officially underway with weeks of deep discounts on gaming PCs, including both desktops and laptops. Several of Intel's hardware partners are on board with the event. Among them is Acer, which is serving up a bunch of deals on its Predator and Nitro systems, several of which we've rounded up below...
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Intel has traditionally dominated the consumer laptop segment with its fast and compatible CPUs, but right now it's facing a three-pronged assault from Apple, Qualcomm, and even AMD, thanks to new and extremely efficient processors from all three competitors. The company needs new technology to stave off these...
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The graphics card market has been in a bit of a malaise lately, with no new releases or significant discounts to speak of. While not next generation worthy, Acer recently issued an EEC filing that listed a few new and possibly incoming AMD Radeon GPUs.
Forgoing the XT moniker, the new GPUs are listed as standard...
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It's important to dream big, and to that end, Acer's new and affordable Chromebook Plus 514 laptop has aspirations being an AI PC, though not necessarily through specialized hardware. Instead, the heavy marketing pitch towards AI is geared towards the "AI-powered capabilities of ChromeOS" and the Chromebook Plus...
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Look, if you're rocking a 49-inch monitor for your PC setup, then your battle station display is anything but puny. But plop it next to Acer's new Predator Z57? Well, that's about the only thing on the market that might make a 49-inch display feel small by comparison. As the model name implies, the Predator Z57 (first...
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Acer today is introducing a handful of new and upgraded gaming laptops sporting the latest generation CPU hardware from AMD and Intel, all of which come paired with discrete graphics from NVIDIA's mobile GeForce RTX 40 series. There are four main laptop lines in all, which notably includes all-new 14-inch models...
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Earlier this year, Acer stormed onto the stage at CES with a handful of gaming monitors up to an incredible 57” with the Predator Z57. Though it had been mentioned previously, what was distinctly missing from the coverage was the monitor that sat between that behemoth and the smaller, but still bodacious, Predator...
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In addition to launching a range of updated productivity laptops at CES, Acer’s also introducing some reconfigured gaming laptops, including the Nitro 17, Predator Helios Neo 16, and all-new Predator Helios Neo 18 (not to be confused with the non-Neo model). All of these laptops pair Intel’s 14th Gen Raptor Lake...
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