Acer has brought a bunch of laptops to the CES showfloor in Vegas, and said laptops ranges from the affordable to the ridiculous.
Let’s start out with the most affordable of the lineup: the Acer Chromebook 11 N7. Mainly targeted for use in schools, the Chromebook 11 N7 is made with durability in mind. As such, the laptop itself is capable of handling up to 60kg of downward force on the top cover and it comes with a spill-resistant keyboard that provides protection against spills of up to 330ml of water.
The laptop will come with a 11.6″ 1366×768 display that comes in either non-touch display or touch display variants, and it will have a either 16GB or 32GB of eMMC storage with 4GB of RAM. The Chromebook 11 N7 will be priced at USD229 (RN1,030) and will go on sale in the U.S. this month.
Next up is the Acer V Nitro Black Edition gaming laptop. Acer’s refresh of the Nitro Black now gives the laptop the ability to be powered by a 7th-gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor. For the graphics card, the Nitro Black can be equipped with either an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or a 1050 Ti. Other components of the Nitro Black laptop includes up to 16GB of DDR4 system memory, the option of a NVMe PCIe Gen 3 or SATA SSD, as well as a 2TB HDD.
For connectivity, the laptop comes with a USB Type-C port with Thunderbolt 3 support, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a HDMI connection, and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The Acer V Nitro Black Edition will be available with either a 17.3″ display or a 15″ display. Sales of the Acer V Nitro Black Edition will begin in February in the U.S. with the 15″ model retailing from USD1,199 while the 17″ model starts at USD1,399.
If the Nitro is a bit too expensive for your tastes, Acer has the Aspire VX 15, a gaming laptop that sports a 15.6″ Full HD IPS screen. For components, the laptop is capable of supporting a 7th-gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. The laptop also comes with 16GB of DDR4 memory that is upgradable to 32GB, a 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. The Aspire VX 15 will be available in January in the U.S. with a starting price of USD799.
Rounding up the laptops that were brought to CES 2017, we have the infamous Predator 21 X. Sporting a curved 21″ IPS display, this monster of a gaming laptop comes with a 7th-gen Intel Core i7-7820HK processor, two Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards in SLI, 64GB of DDR4-2400 memory, up to four 512GB SSDs in RAID 0 configuration, and a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive. Besides the components and the screen, the Predator 21 X will also come with a full-sized mechanical keyboard that features Cherry MX Brown switches, Tobii eye-tracking technology, as well as USB Type-C ports with Thunderbolt 3 support. The Predator 21 X will go be available in the U.S. in February with prices starting at USD8,999.
If the 21 X is too prohibitively expensive for you, Acer has also refreshed the Predator 17 X. The refreshed laptop now comes with a Core i7-7820HK processor, a GTX 1080 GPU, up to 64GB of DDR4-2400 memory, an NVMe PCIe SSD or three SATA-SSD RAID 0 array. The laptop houses a 17.3″ G-Sync Full HD IPS display or a UHD IPS display.
