New laptops announced at Acer Next 2020 feature Intel Tiger Lake

Enlarge / Ooo, snazzy. (credit: Acer)

Acer announced Intel-powered refreshes of several product lines today at the Acer Next 2020 online event. Notable new or refreshed products include the Swift, Aspire, and Spin general-purpose laptop lines and the high-end ConceptD 7 and Porsche Design laptops.

Aspire 5, Spin 3, Spin 5

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  The Aspire 5 comes in both 14-inch models (shown here) and 15-inch models. [credit: Acer ]

The Aspire and Spin product lines get pretty straightforward refreshes with 11th-generation (Tiger Lake) Intel CPUs, but otherwise they remain largely unchanged.

For those unfamiliar with Acer branding, the Spin 3 and Spin 5 are convertible touchscreen laptops featuring a 360-degree hinge. That means they can be used as standard laptops, used in "tent mode" (unfolded 270 degrees, resting on edge of both screen and keyboard-a presentation much like a tablet in a folio stand), or opened a full 360 degrees into tablet mode.

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