This Acer Desktop PC Has Laptop Specs, For Some Reason

Acer makes awesome computers, and its latest scope of gaming laptops looks amazing. But the institution besides unveiled a desktop PC among those computers—and not lone does it beryllium successful an awkward spot successful Acer's lineup, but it has reasons to bash truthful arsenic good compared to different SFF computers.

Acer contiguous expanded its fashionable Nitro gaming lineup with the announcement of 4 caller laptops and a redesigned compact desktop PC. Let's speech astir the desktop PC first, though, since that's the 1 I recovered the astir unique. It's unsocial due to the fact that of its prime to usage laptop specifications. The Nitro 20 N20-100 is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, oregon alternatively, you tin besides outfit it with an Intel Core i5-13420H desktop processor. Graphics are handled by up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. It's arsenic mid-range arsenic it gets, which isn't needfully a atrocious thing, and the lawsuit itself is conscionable 15 liters, truthful that puts it firmly successful SFF territory.

Still, it does marque america wonderment whether Acer could've done amended here. Don't get maine wrong. Laptop specs connected tiny PCs aren't a weird sight—just look astatine ASUS' NUC scope of computers for an example. But astatine 15 liters, this is truly not that small. There are cases retired determination that are astir the aforesaid size and are susceptible of fitting full-fledged desktop hardware, and if you cognize however to bargain and however to put things wrong properly, you tin adjacent acceptable monolithic three-slot GPUs successful there, too. It reminds maine a spot of the Framework desktop, but I'm not definite if this 1 is arsenic unfastened arsenic Framework's is. The Framework Desktop does astatine slightest permission the doorway unfastened for aboriginal upgrades, and it's already beauteous upgradeable retired of the box. Here, however, I'm not definite astir it.

It does person immoderate chill redeeming qualities. There's an integrated fingerprint sensor built into the powerfulness button, allowing for unafraid authentication without requiring passwords oregon PINs. And considering we person laptop specs, we technically besides person a desktop machine that's arsenic quiescent arsenic it gets. And also, it should hardly sip power—laptops are much power-efficient than desktop computers, truthful this could beryllium a worthy enactment if you person power/thermal constraints. But it's a weird portion of hardware otherwise. I'm not saying it's bad, either, but if you're going for a desktop PC, you mightiness arsenic good look astatine different options first.

Getting into the laptops, the Nitro 18 AI (AN18-61) features a ample 18-inch WQXGA (2560x1600) show with a 165 Hz refresh rate, 100% DCI-P3 color, and G-SYNC. The Nitro 16 AI (AN16-61) offers a 16-inch WQXGA sheet with a faster 180 Hz refresh rate, 400 nits brightness, and G-SYNC. We besides person the Nitro 16S AI (AN16S-61) and Nitro V 16S AI (ANV16S-61). Both person 16-inch WQXGA, 180 Hz, 400-nit displays. These are your regular, run-of-the-mill Acer gaming laptops, and those are ever among the champion you tin buy, truthful nary complaints there. They volition yet beryllium astonishing options erstwhile they're successful the market.

We don't person immoderate pricing and availability info for North America conscionable yet—like everyone else, Acer is astir apt waiting to spot however overmuch tariffs volition impact their business.

Source: Acer