At its Next @ Acer 2020 conference in Taipei, Acer presented its new laptop products, including its new range of hybrid Chromebooks convertible into Tablets, the Chromebook Enterprise Spin 713 and Chromebook Spin 311. It also presents its new Ultrabook Acer Swift 5 equipped with the next generation Intel Tiger Lake processor.
Acer emphasizes that 2020 is the year of change. The brand announces that it wants to help its customers to work efficiently from home.
For this, several of the laptops it presents are equipped with anti-microbial technology .
In particular, it equips the new Chromebook Enterprise Spin 713 .
As a reminder, Chromebooks are devices running Google\’s free Chrome OS system , a market in which Acer claims to be number 1.
The Acer Chromebook Enterprise Spin 713 adopts a 3: 2 VertiView format that is more practical for certain uses, such as PowerPoint presentations.
It has a 13.5 inch IPS CineCrystal (2256×1504) Corning Gorilla Glass touch screen that can be converted into a tablet and can be opened at 360 °.
This 2-in-1 hybrid computer with a silver design promises to be light and robust with its compliance with the American military resistance standard MIL-STD-810G .
Intel low power processor Comet Lake Dual Core Pentium Gold 6405U (2.4 GHz), Dual Core i3-10110U (2.1 GHz), Quad Core i5-10210U (1.6 GHz) or Quad Core i7 -10610U (1.8 GHz), all with graphics solution Intel UHD.
The Comet Lake comes with a 4/8/16 GB DDR4 soldered RAM as well as storage either flash eMMC 64/128 GB or SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 of 128/256 GB.
On the connection side, there are Wi-Fi ax modules (2×2, Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201) and Bluetooth 5.0, an HDMI video output, headphone / microphone combo audio, 1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 3.1 Type-C .
Compliant with the Athena Project , the Acer Chromebook Enterprise Spin 713 measures 300.6 x 235 x 16.8mm and weighs 1.37 Kg with its 3-cell battery offering an announced autonomy of 10 hours .
It integrates Chrome Entreprise Upgrade , a solution to manage devices on a large scale.
The Acer Chromebook Spin 311 in 11.6 inch format is less efficient with its MediaTek M8183C Cortex-A173 / A53 processor, its 4 GB of RAM and its eMMC 32/64 GB storage. Its announced autonomy increases to 15 hours and it is more compact and light with its dimensions of 290 x 206 x 18.8mm and its weight of 1.05 Kg including 2 cell battery.
The Acer Chromebook Enterprise Spin 713 is expected in France for next August from 999 euros while the Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (without Chrome Entreprise Upgrade) is scheduled for July 2020 from 699 euros . Much more affordable, the Acer Chromebook Spin 311 will be marketed from 299 euros from August .
The new Acer Swift 5 is an Ultrabook which is also light since it weighs less than 1 Kg with 40Whr battery option, and 1.05 Kg with its 56Whr rechargeable battery from 4 hours in 30 minutes.
With a magnesium-lithium and magnesium aluminum chassis, it measures 318.9 x 206.98 x 14.95mm and offers an announced autonomy of 12 hours in Windows 10.
The Acer Swift 5 SF514-55 is equipped with a processor ” Intel Core with the graphic power resulting from the new architecture Xe of Intel ” and therefore probably of an Intel Tiger Lake engraved in 10nm.
Tiger Lake is associated with memory up to 16GB LPDDR4X (welded) and a storage SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe and a 14 inch IPS antimicrobial Full HD (1920×1080) Touch Multi-Touch Corning Gorilla Glass 72% NTSC 300cd / m² fine edges 2.61mm.
It looks like Mist Green (green) and Safari Gold (beige), and has a Wi-Fi ax connection (2×2, Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201), Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI, Headphone / Mic combo audio, 2 USB 3.0 and 1 USB 3.2 Type-C (Gen2).
The new Ultrabook Acer Swift 5 SF514-55 is also equipped with a 2-speaker DTS Audio Acer TrueHarmony sound solution, an HD webcam with microphone and a backlit chiclet keyboard.
It is announced in Acer Swift 5 SF514-55G edition with NVIDIA GeForce MX350 dedicated graphics card .
However, you will have to wait to be able to get it since it is expected from 1199 euros for October 2020 .
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