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Day One of CES continues. This time around, Leo and Mat stop by the Acer booth to check out everything from new gaming monitors and laptops, to new PCs and even an interesting prototype known as the ‘DualPlay Laptop'.
Watch on YouTube below:
Timestamps:
- 00:00 Laptop sadness
- 00:43 Project DualPlay Prototype laptop
- 01:55 RTX 50 graphics – some thoughts
- 03:32 e-scooters
- 04:05 Laptops with AMD processors
- 05:03 Acer networking
- 06:03 Mini PC’s
- 06:57 Aspire S Ai System
- 07:41 Aspire 14 Ai
- 08:06 Aspire Vero 16
- 09:06 Gaming handhelds
- 10:27 Nitro laptops
- 11:05 Spatiallabs monitor
The Project DualPlay laptop has a removable trackpad that doubles as a game controller. As for the new round of Predator Gaming Laptops, we were unfortunately a little too early, having seen them before Nvidia officially announced the new RTX 50 series laptop GPUs. As a result, these laptops were not set up for demos, leaving us with blank screens with fully lit RGB keyboards underneath.
Acer’s new Swift Go AI thin-and-light laptops come in 16-inch and 14-inch display sizes and feature a Ryzen AI 300 CPU under the hood. These are AMD's latest Zen 5 CPUs for the mobile market, offering up to eight high-performance cores, paired with a 5GHz clock speed and an XDNA 2 NPU with up to 50 TOPS of performance for AI tasks. These CPUs also come with Radeon graphics baked-in. According to Acer, these laptops can last a full 24 hours of video playback on a single charge.
Acer also has the new Aspire 41 AI, which offers a slightly lower battery life estimate at 22 hours of video playback. This laptop is powered by Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs and has an optional OLED display, The laptop is built with a durable aluminium top and bottom cover, and it has a 180-degree hinge, allowing the display to lay flat on a desk, something that might be useful in a collaborative work environment.
Acer is also getting into the handheld gaming market this year with two Acer Nitro Blaze handhelds. These handhelds will be powered by Ryzen 8040 series APUs and not the new Ryzen Z2 series chips, setting them apart competing models. We look forward to getting a closer look at performance in the months ahead.
KitGuru Says: What did you all think of Acer's CES 2025 announcements? Do you have your eye on anything to pick up later in the year?
