For $1,399.99, you can step up to the SF515-51T-73TY model, which sports a Core i7-8565U (another Whiskey chip), 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. Both come with a one-year warranty and Windows 10 Home.

The Acer Spin 3 is a budget laptop with a few surprisingly nice features: An integrated stylus, a Thunderbolt port, and Wi-Fi 6. Even if its performance is average, those bonuses help it stand out.

The only real giveaways that it's a gaming notebook are its red keyboard backlighting and touchpad border. I wish Acer would have switched to blues as it has started doing on its Predator laptop ...

What if you took an already good yet affordable laptop, added more features and newer specs, and lowered the price? That’d be pretty great, right? Now take that same laptop and add an extra six hours ...

That's the good stuff. Now on to some criticism. Despite being built around what should be a PCIe 4.0 motherboard, the Airdisk APF10-001 SSD in the Orion 3000 is running at PCIe 3.0 speeds, and ...

As recycling becomes a bigger and bigger part of our modern world, Acer is trying to incorporate more post-consumer recycled plastics. That’s the point of its Vero line, which includes the Acer ...

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CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The Acer Swift X 14 is the company's RTX-powered 14-inch ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Beneath a compact and admittedly mundane exterior hides a ...

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Acer’s 2021 Nitro 5 is 100 percent a gaming laptop. The 2021 Nitro 5 comes in various configurations that range from as little as $800 to as much as $2,000. Like many gaming laptops, it’s big, bulky, ...