Monday, August 21st 2017
Acer Showcases Nitro 5 Spin Notebook With Intel 8th Gen Inside
Intel has just opened the proverbial lid on their 8th Gen "Coffee Lake" family of CPUs, which should bring about a democratization of cores for the masses. Acer has been quick to jump on the 8th Gen bandwagon, by announcing their new Nitro 5 Spin laptop, which brings with it the increased performance and "UHD graphics" of Intel's 8000 series of CPUs.
The Nitro 5 Spin is being marketed as a convertible, gaming-focused laptop, whose 15.6 1920*1080 IPS panel can be rotated to multiple locking positions through a 360º hinge. The gaming part of this laptop seems a little subdued - an NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics card is confirmed to be on board - while memory configuration, and even the specific Intel 8th Gen processor inside, are still a mystery. The company also said that 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wi-Fi will be par of the course for their new offering, and that we should expect this take on Intel's 8th Gen mobility CPUs to be available sometime in October, for a respectable $999.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
The Nitro 5 Spin is being marketed as a convertible, gaming-focused laptop, whose 15.6 1920*1080 IPS panel can be rotated to multiple locking positions through a 360º hinge. The gaming part of this laptop seems a little subdued - an NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics card is confirmed to be on board - while memory configuration, and even the specific Intel 8th Gen processor inside, are still a mystery. The company also said that 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wi-Fi will be par of the course for their new offering, and that we should expect this take on Intel's 8th Gen mobility CPUs to be available sometime in October, for a respectable $999.
13 Comments on Acer Showcases Nitro 5 Spin Notebook With Intel 8th Gen Inside
Also, even Intel freely admitsthat the HD -> UHD branding of the graphics is a pure branding change, and not indicating any real hardware change whatsoever.
It might actually be a bit of a surface pro replacement for non-artists looking at the specs. Don't know who would need this laptop, but it's pretty cool. If the iPad Pro 2 12.9 wasn't so damn good, I would've gotten this. I'm alreading getting a nice coffee lake/1080 (ti) 1440p 32" setup, so I don't need a gaming laptop and even if this allows me to do some gaming at school and upstairs, have a better workflow in some cases and have more versatility, iPads are just so nice and I'll just have to deal with others using the pc occasionally and not having a windows device upstairs in my lovely armchair or at school!
I would definitely be interested in a Surface Pro with this, although I'd be very tempted towards anything in the 13-14" range with this in 25W cTDP-up mode and a low-power iGPU like the GTX 1050. Although then I might prefer something with Raven Ridge.
I'm interested in it because it mey be a good match to an eGPU, which is what I'm looking for. I would like to have something portable a like XPS 13 or macbook pro that i could use at home docked with a nice screen, keyboard, mouse ethernet and eGPU. I'm trying to slim down the number of devices i own. (And an iOS device, as limited as it is, certainly is not in the cards...)
Acer predators are amazing btw, whereas msi often still has cheap chinese laptops with their own stickers applied. Seriously, mkre than half of msi's laptops feel incredibky cheap and some have the least solid keyboards I've ever seen that depress all the way to the mobo, taking the mobo with them!