Acer teams up with Porsche Design for the luxury Acer Book RS laptop

Acer is teaming up with Porsche Design on a new high-end "luxury" laptop, the Porsche Innovation Genus Acer Book RS, which looks to combine Porsche Design's product designs with Acer's laptop know-how.

The partnership here is an important one, given that the last Porsche Design-proprietary laptop, the Porsche Design Scripture One (which the innovation studio developed connected its own), had some key flaws caused by prioritizing style over functionality.

The Porsche Design Acer Book RS, on the other hand, looks the likes of a more ceremonious laptop (albeit, single that's yet covered in carbon fiber). The specs are also encouraging, with a choice of Intel's 11th Gen Core i5 and i7 processors, 8GB OR 16GB of RAM, and either 512GB or 1TB of storage. Graphics can either be left field to Intel's intermingled Iris diaphragm Xenon graphics or an optional distinct Nvidia MX350 GPU. The display is perhaps the least impressive set off of the package, with a middling ordinary 14-inch 1080p touchscreen.

The laptop itself is also far cheaper than Porsche Design's last laptop, starting at $1,399 in the United States, although exact pricing and a release date have yet to be announced. The two companies are as wel offering a variety of matching accessories to extend to with the laptop, including a $109.99 mouse (also with carbon fiber accents) and a case, which ass be bundled jointly for $329.99, or in a "premium package" that includes the higher-specced i7 model of the laptop computer for $1,999.99

Acer as wel declared several other major laptop updates, including the new Acer Swift 3X, which will be one of the firstly laptops to feature Intel's new distinct Xe Max GPU. For more inside information on that model, including an early hands-on, detent hither.

The company isn't hardly focusing on fancy designs and flashy sunrise GPUs, though. IT's also rolling out Intel's latest chips to several else laptops in its card, besides. Both the Twirl 5 and Birl 3 (hold up updated at CES 2020 earlier this year) are getting refreshes.

The Spin 5 is the less interesting of the two, featuring the same basic redesign that information technology received earlier this year (with a 13.5-inch 2K display), but it now offers a selection of Intel's 11th Gen i5 and i7 processors. IT'll start at $999.99 when IT ships in February 2021.

*Acer Spin around 3, featuring a virgin 16:10 exhibit.*

The Spin 3, however, has gotten a more sound update, with a refreshing 16:10 13.3-inch display (with both 2560 x 1600 and 1920 x 1200 resolving power options). The inexperient model is as wel getting Intel's 11th Gen processors (with Burden i3, i5, and i7 choices), 8GB or 16GB of RAM, and the option to add a instant SSD. It'll be open in Border 2021, starting at $849.99

Genus Acer is also updating its Aspire 5 lineup with 11th Gen Intel processors, with the 14-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch models all adding Intel's latest laptop chips as configuration options, along with the additional prize of adding separate Nvidia GeForce MX350 or MX450 GPUs. The 14-inch and 15-inch models will some start at $499.99 when they release in the US in December, while the 17-inch Aspire 5 will start at $549.99 when it arrives in February 2021.

Lastly, Acer is as wel energising its ConceptD 7 and ConceptD 7 Pro laptops for creators, adding Intel's 10th Gen H-series laptop computer chips that it released earlier this yr, although the design of the two models remains for the most part unchanged. Both the ConceptD 7 and ConceptD 7 in favou bequeath be available in the United States of America in December, starting at $3,299.99 and $3,499.99, severally.