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Monday, 7 January 2019

Acer introduces new Swift 7 with 14-inch touch-screen display, 8th Gen Intel Core i7 and AMD-powered Chromebook 315

Acer has announced the new Swift 7 laptop and new Chromebook 315 which is the first AMD-powered Chrome OS device. The Swift 7 comes with an impressive 92% screen-to-body ratio and runs on Windows 10. The bezels on the Swift 7 measure just 2.57 mm. The Acer Swift 7 sports a 14-inch Full HD (1920x1080) touch-screen display with IPS technology with 100% sRGB/72% NTSC color gamut and 300 nits of brightness. The laptop comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 6. It is powered by the 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8500Y processor coupled with 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 512GB of fast PCIe SSD storage. The company promises up to 10 hours of battery life. It comes with two USB Type-C ports supporting Thunderbolt 3, as well as USB 3.1 Gen 2. The DisplayPort 1.2 provides fast data transfers at up to 10 Gbps. It features 2x2 MU-MIMO technology, Bluetooth 5.0. The power button doubles as a fingerprint reader for password-free Windows Hello secure login. The camera has a 55-degree angle of view, and features high-dynamic-range (HDR). Next up, the company also announced the Acer Chromebook 315 which is the world’s first AMD-powered Chrome OS device. It is powered by the 7th Gen AMD A6-9220C or A4-9120C processors with Radeon graphics. It sports a 15.6-inch ...