I reviewed the excellent Acer Swift 3 back in February which was one of the first laptops on the market to feature the new AMD Ryzen 5 2500U processor with an integrated RX Vega 8 GPU. The Acer Nitro 5 uses the same CPU, but this budget gaming laptop now has the new Radeon RX…
During my time with the well-priced entry-level Nitro N50 gaming PC, I was using the Acer Nitro RG270 gaming monitor that was sent with it. This is an attractive slim bezel AMD FreeSync enabled 27-inch monitor running at 1920 x 1080p with a refresh rate of 75 Hz. Some gaming communities might immediately dismiss a…
The Acer N50-600 series of desktops cover a wide range of configurations that mainly focus on the entry to mid-end of the market with the Predator Orion range being the options for the mid to upper end. The Nitro model I have been sent is the N50-600-28 which sits about as low down in the…
It was clear from IFA 2018 that Acer is continuing to push forward in establishing themselves as one of the leading PC gaming brands. This included some over the top products such as the Predator Thronos gaming chair which weighs over 200KG and can accommodate three curved 27-inch monitors side-by-side. While the Thronos was a…
Having come away from the Acer Swift 7 review impressed, I have now moved to the more affordable Swift 5. With this model Acer target the problem of portability again, but at a different angle. Rather than being ultra slim the Swift 5 is one of the lightest laptops in the world weighing just 970g…
Not content on making one of the lightest 15-inch laptops on the planet with the Swift 5, Acer have upped the ante and built the thinnest laptop in the world with the Acer Swift 7. Hopefully, this is not like mobile phones, where you sacrifice function over form. Announced back in January at CES 2018…
Nvidia and their OEM partners ASUS and Acer announced a new range of monitors / TVs at CES this year. The Big Format Gaming (BFG) Displays have an impressive specification with an enormous 65-inch screen a resolution of 4K, HDR support and a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz, G-Sync and an Integrated Nvidia Shield Android TV. At…
I have always been a big fan of Acer products; they make great laptops, monitors as well as the excellent Windows Mixed Reality Headset. They also like to dabble with other products and the most exciting product they have launched recently is the Acer Holo360, which is a 360-degree camera that is built around Android…
As much as we like to yearn for ultra-wide high refresh rate or 4K monitors, in reality for most of us, this is beyond our budget, both in terms of the monitor price and the PC required to run it. If you are a gamer on a budget, then 1080p is still your best bet,…
It has been 4 years since I have reviewed any of the Acer Switch line, so I thought it was time to see what this budget 2-in-1 has to offer in 2018. The Switch 3 is quite an attractive option from a consumer’s perspective, it is a 2-in-1 with a 12.2-inch display, that resembles the…
AMD took the PC world by storm last year with the release of their Ryzen based chips. In particular, the R5 1600 and R7 1700 became the recommended CPUs for PC builders. AMD is now hoping for repeated success in the laptop market with the Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U. I am lucky…
I have reviewed some excellent Acer laptops recently from the paper thing 2-in-1 Spin 7 to the wallet-friendly Acer Chromebook R11. The Acer Swift 1 sites in the middle ground, being an affordable lightweight full Windows 10 notebook. The model I was sent is the SF13-31 model which comes with the following specifications There are…