Enlarge / Hellllloooooo Chrome OS tablets. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Chrome OS took over schools with clamshells, but now Google is shaking things up with slabs. After a spring announcement, Acer has built the first Chrome OS tablet, the $ 329 Chromebook Tab 10, to give teachers and students a more flexible device to use for […]
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Chrome OS tablets are official—Meet the Acer Chromebook Tab 10
Acer Chrome OS tablets have been expected for years, and today Acer and Google are finally teaming up to launch the first ever Chrome tablet: the Chromebook Tab 10. It’s a pretty standard budget tablet hardware with Chrome OS loaded on it. There’s no keyboard, just a touch screen and a passive Wacom stylus. Google has a blog […]
Acer Chrome OS tablet pops up at UK education event
Google’s said before that Chrome OS would be used for tablets, but so far we’ve only seen whispers of such a device. Now, it seems that Twitter user Alister Payne (@Alister_Payne) got an early look at what appears to be an Acer tablet that operates on Chrome OS. The tweet and picture, taken at BETT […]
Acer adds three thin, powerful laptops to its lineup
Like most PC makers, Acer is no stranger to new hardware, with pretty regular reveals happening all year long. At CES this year, then, the hardware manufacturer is showing off the latest additions to its lineup with the Acer Swift 7, Swift 7 Black Edition and Acer Spin 3 laptops. Each is super thin and […]
Acer unveils 4 new laptops, including ‘the world’s thinnest’
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, Acer today unveiled three new laptops in its Windows 10 lineups: Swift 7, Nitro 5, and Spin 3. The company also added a new Chromebook 11, and revealed U.S. availability for the previously-announced Switch 7 Black Edition and Predator Orion 9000 Series. All the […]
Review: Acer Chromebook 15 CB515-1HT-P39B
This Chromebook’s big aspirations are undermined by software bugs and weak hardware. https://media.wired.com/photos/59e92f2e1a7a784c71f7d8b6/master/pass/Chromebook-fa.jpg Feed: All Latest
HP vs. Acer: comparing Windows VR headsets
For the past year and a half the world has known two primary PC VR ecosystems: the Oculus Home-powered Oculus Rift (and Touch controllers) and the SteamVR-powered HTC Vive (although the Rift works on SteamVR too, but that’s beside the point sort of). There have been a handful of others that popped up, like OSVR, […]
Acer crammed a quantum dot display into a 10-inch tablet
While it may not be the first name in tablets, Acer has produced some respectable touchscreen devices in the past. Last month, the company unveiled a wide range of new 2-in-1 devices in its compelling Switch line of Windows 10 machines. Today, in advance of Computex in Taipei, the company is adding a pair of […]
Acer Predator 21 X: Our first take
We caught glimpses of Acer’s massive Predator 21 X at IFA in 2016, and again at CES in 2017, and both times, Acer insisted this Moby Dick of a system wasn’t just a white whale. Still, it was hard to believe until the humongous, rolling sea-ready case showed up at the Digital Trends office. Granted, the […]
Acer is making yet another fitness wearable
After a series of underwhelming attempts at making fitness wearables that track uncommon metrics, Acer is at it again with its new Leap Ware watch. Not many details have been shared yet, but one thing the company was happy to mention? The Ware will monitor your stamina, along with “more-effective fitness” metrics and a scratch-resistant […]