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In September 2020, AMD released its Ryzen 3000 C-series for Chromebooks, a line up of budget-priced chips based on the 12nm Picasso (Ryzen+) architecture that featured up to 4 cores and 8 threads and up to 11 Radeon Vega compute units. Nearly two years on and AMD has just announced four new Ryzen 5000 C-series SKUs designed to bring the performance benefits of its Cezanne (Zen 3) architecture to the Chromebook space. The four new Ryzen 5000 C-series processors range from 8C/16T to 2C/4T, all with a 15 W TDP and designed to improve productivity and battery life over existing Ryzen 3000 C-series processors and Intel's 11th Gen Tiger Lake chips. Aimed at the premium area of the Chromebook market, the new AMD Ryzen 5000 C-series...
Acer Announces Ultra Low Cost Cloudbooks With Windows 10 Home
Today Acer is launching a new line of low cost notebooks, which are branded as Acer Aspire One Cloudbooks. There will be an 11.6-inch model, and a 14-inch model...
45 by Brett Howse on 8/4/2015
The Acer Aspire R 13 Review: Convertible Notebook With A Twist
The world of the convertible notebook has come a long way in just a couple of years, but we seem to have settled in on two basic types of...
25 by Brett Howse on 6/15/2015
Acer Updates V Nitro Black Series with GeForce 960M
Like many OEMs Acer is updating their mainstream gaming notebooks with NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 960M mobile GPU. The V Nitro Black series is currently Acer’s highest performance gaming...
18 by Jarred Walton on 3/12/2015
Acer Chromebook 13: 1080p with Tegra K1
The Google Chromebook has a rather interesting history, starting as an always connected device with all your data stored in the cloud and slowly but steadily transforming into a...
71 by Jarred Walton on 1/23/2015
Acer Announces Enhanced Durability Education Chromebooks
This morning coinciding with the FETC (Florida Education Technology Conference), Acer announced two new Chromebooks with enhanced durability targeted at education customers, the C740 and C910. Both feature reinforced...
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Acer Announces First 15” Chromebook, with a Broadwell Processor
CES officially starts this week, which means announcements are going to start pouring out. Every year it seems the pre-CES stuff starts earlier, and for 2015 Acer is kicking...
23 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
Acer Announces Two Gaming Monitors At CES 2015
CES is set to get started right away, but already some news is starting to trickle out of Las Vegas. Acer has taken the wraps off of two new...
27 by Brett Howse on 1/3/2015
Best $1000 Laptops: Holiday 2014
Mainstream Laptop Recommendations So far we've covered the budget laptop sector as well as Chromebooks in our Holiday 2014 Guides, but if you want a good quality laptop that can...
80 by Jarred Walton on 12/5/2014
Best $500 Laptops: Holiday 2014
[Note: prices are changing a lot right now; there are sales that come and go, and some of the prices we quote will inevitably change. Please view these recommendations...
59 by Jarred Walton on 12/1/2014
Chromebook Buyer's Guide: Holiday 2014
If you want something more than a tablet, the cheapest options are undoubtedly Chromebooks. These are basically the least expensive laptops you can find, and while we're working on...
64 by Jarred Walton on 11/26/2014
Acer Announces UHD V Nitro Black Edition Laptop
Back in late September, Acer announced a new line of laptops, the V Nitro Black Edition of their popular V series. The V series in many ways is the...
20 by Jarred Walton on 11/3/2014
Acer Releases XBO Series: 28-inch UHD/4K with G-Sync for $800
Monitors are getting exciting. Not only are higher resolution panels becoming more of the norm, but the combination of different panel dimensions and feature sets means that buying the...
57 by Ian Cutress on 9/19/2014
Acer Announces Two Frameless Monitors: the UHD 27" S277HK and WQHD 25" H257HU
On Tuesday in Taiwan, Acer announced two monitors that might be worth a look for anyone looking to put a couple of multi-monitor setups together, or interested in an...
35 by Brett Howse on 9/10/2014
Tegra K1 Lands in Acer's Newest Chromebook
Today Acer announced four new models of a new 13.3" Chromebook design featuring Tegra K1. This is a significant launch for NVIDIA, proving there's industry interest in Tegra K1...
24 by Stephen Barrett on 8/11/2014
AMD Kaveri Laptops Sighted
While AMD's Kaveri APUs initially launched on the desktop at the beginning of the year, for many the APUs looked like a better fit for laptops and notebooks. In...
42 by Jarred Walton on 7/28/2014
Acer Announces 4K G-SYNC Monitor, XB280HK
Acer has introduced the first 4K monitor that also features G-SYNC technology from NVIDIA. The Acer XB280HK is a 28” TN display with 3840x2160 resolution, like many of the...
12 by Chris Heinonen on 5/26/2014
Acer Announces Aspire Switch 10
Acer took the wraps off of a new product today – the Acer Aspire Switch 10. This is a new take on the two in one for Acer, offering...
30 by Brett Howse on 4/29/2014
Best Gaming Laptops and Notebooks - Holiday 2013
We're in the midst of updating all of our "best of" guides for the holiday season, and we've already covered what is likely the most popular category: Budget Laptops...
67 by Jarred Walton on 11/29/2013
Best Budget Laptops - Holiday 2013
Introduction Over the past decade, we've seen a dramatic slowing in the rate of performance increases on PCs and laptops. Where it was typical to see a doubling in performance...
30 by Jarred Walton on 11/28/2013
Acer Aspire R7-572: Haswell and an Active Digitizer
Earlier this year, we looked at Acer’s R7 laptop – an interesting hybrid device that moves the keyboard forward and the touchpad back, with the idea being that you’ll...
30 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013
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