Acer powers up Aspire notebook family with eighth-gen Intel CPUs
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Acer's IFA onslaught continues with updates to its Aspire family of notebooks. At the top end of its lineup, the company has tapped Intel's Kaby Lake-G CPUs to power the Aspire 7 conventional notebook. This 15.6", all-metal machine has Core i7-8705G and Core i5-8305G CPU options, both paired with Radeon RX Vega M GL graphics. The i7-8705G has four cores and eight threads running at a 3.1-GHz base clock and a 4.1-GHz Turbo Boost peak, while the i5-8305G keeps the same core and thread count but drops back to a 2.8-GHz base clock and a 3.8-GHz peak speed.
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