July 15, 2016

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    Four new laptops make it to our M.2 SSD compatibility list including the HP Spectre 13 and Acer Aspire S 13

    In relation to our M.2 SSD compatibility list, we’ve updated the table with four new notebooks with three of them being part of HP’s new portfolio. All of them, fortunately, support M.2 slots, which is…

    July 15, 2016

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    Inside Acer Aspire S 13 – disassembly, internal photos and upgrade options

    Before the full review of Acer’s latest budget ultraportable solution, we would like to shed some light on the internal part of the laptop. It’s fairly easy to disassemble and maintain with almost identical clamshell…

    July 11, 2016

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    Acer Aspire Switch Alpha 12 display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

    Acer’s Aspire Switch Alpha 12 boasts a small but pixel-packed display with QHD resolution and good properties that are ideal for general browsing, office work and multimedia. However, the display has its drawbacks but nothing…

    July 11, 2016

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    Acer’s latest budget ultrabook, the Aspire S 13, uses a user-friendly screen without PWM

    We are always happy to find a notebook that has a good IPS screen that doesn’t put any unnecessary stress on the user’s eyes. And so, we were delighted to find out that the Acer…

    July 10, 2016

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    Acer KA240Hbid – a decent and affordable monitor under $150

    The Taiwanese company Acer has made a name for itself as one of the best selling manufacturers of monitors. This is the main reason why we decided to present to your attention a product characterized…

    July 07, 2016

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    Acer is jumping on the ultraportable laptop bandwagon with its new TravelMate X3 lineup

    Undoubtedly, Acer has made a big hit with its TravelMate series notebooks with a great balance between price and specs so we were glad to hear that the lineup is expanding. The new notebooks will…

    July 04, 2016

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    Acer’s Aspire Switch Alpha 12 with good display and little drawbacks but nothing that can’t be fixed

    The Aspire Switch Alpha 12 boasts a powerful processor, cool keyboard docking, excellent build quality and ergonomics and apparently – a decent display as well. Our tests show that the QHD IPS panel with the…

    June 30, 2016

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    Acer Predator XR341CK review – immersive ultra-wide gaming experience

    Upon the arrival of gaming monitors supporting AMD’s FreeSync and NVIDIA’s G-Sync adaptive sync technologies, the gaming monitor market gets all the attention lately so manufacturers are…

    June 29, 2016

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    Acer Predator 17X (FHD model) display profiles – Quality and Health impact results

    Not all displays are perfect even those found in high-end notebooks so it’s our job to configure and iron out the small issues that might arise during use. But fortunately, the Acer Predator 17X’s Full…

    June 28, 2016

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    NVIDIA’s GTX 980 for laptops now tops our GPU ranking table

    With the release of our Acer Predator 17X review, which can be bought here, a new GPU king just came into town and topped our notebook GPU ranking table. We all expected to be considerably…

    June 28, 2016

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    Acer and Starbreeze partner in the development of a 4K VR headset

    Everyone has heard about Acer. The Taiwanese comapny produces everything needed in the IT sphere – monitors, laptops, desktop computers, projectors, etc. Today we would like to discuss a new step taken by Acer in…

    June 28, 2016

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    We’ve updated the M.2 compatibility list with new findings – Acer Predator 17X, ASUS ZenBook Flip UX360 and more

    Today’s report of the updated M.2 compatibility list is particularly interesting as we added only notebooks that feature M.2 slots. All three notebooks span across mid-range up to the high-end segment so if you are…

    June 22, 2016

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    Acer continues its Predator lineup with the flicker-free 17X

    If you read our short piece regarding the Predator 17X’s display, you’ve probably guessed that since the panel is quite similar to the ones found in ASUS ROG G752 and Lenovo Y900, this one doesn’t…

    June 21, 2016

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    Acer Predator 17X uses the new generation LG panel with 75Hz refresh rate

    Until our full review gets published, we are impatient to share some screen test results from our lab. From the beginning we were suspecting that the Predator 17X uses a panel similar to the one…

    June 17, 2016

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    How Acer Predator 17X’s overclocking turbo mode works and does it matter in real-life usage

    It’s been a while since we started testing Acer’s newest extreme edition gaming laptop – the Predator 17X and we have lots of things to talk about. However, today we would like you to have…

    June 15, 2016

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    Inside Acer Predator 17X – disassembly, internal photos and upgrade options

    One would assume that the Acer Predator 17X is hard to disassemble and you can’t access all of the hardware that easily since the machine packs a ton of hardware with unusual cooling design and,…

    June 03, 2016

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    Guess what arrived in our office! (Spoiler: Acer’s Predator 17X)

    As we promised a few weeks back when the Acer Predator 17X was announced, we have early access to the notebook which means that a full review and set of tests are on the way.…

    June 01, 2016

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    Five new notebooks added to our M.2 SSD compatibility list including Lenovo Ideapad 700, HP Omen 15 (2016) and Acer TravelMate P658

    It’s been a while since we updated our M.2 SSD compatibility list and here’s our report of doing so. This time, we’ve got five new notebooks and the good news is that four out of…

    May 30, 2016

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    The Acer Aspire V5 series all support the latest M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD standard

    The new NVMe standard for M.2 SSD sticks is taking the market by a storm and everyone’s looking for an NVMe-capable machine but not everyone can afford one. Fortunately, the new “meta” is making its…

    May 24, 2016

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    Dirt-cheap alternatives to laptops supporting the latest PCIe NVMe SSD standard

    The new NVMe standard is growing popular and can be found on almost all high-end laptops regardless of their nature – business, multimedia, gaming etc. But is the new PCIe NVMe standard too expensive to…