Acer announces its first two 14-inch gaming laptops

The caller Acer Predator Helios Neo 14. | Image: Acer

Acer announced Tuesday its archetypal 14-inch gaming laptops: the Nitro 14 and Predator Helios Neo 14. It’s breathtaking to spot Acer’s fabulous and well-beloved budget-friendly Nitro participate the 14-inch gaming laptop space, but adjacent much truthful for the caller Predator since it’s priced and specced competitively with the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and Razer Blade 14. The institution is besides releasing an updated Nitro 16 that tin beryllium configured with either a current-gen AMD Ryzen oregon Intel Core processor.

The caller Nitro 14 starts astatine $1,299.99 and tin beryllium configured each the mode up to an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, 32GB of LPDDR5X SDRAM, and 1TB of NVME SSD memory. It’s disposable with 120Hz G-Sync displays astatine either 2560 x 1600 oregon 1920 x 1200 resolution.

The higher-end 14-inch Predator Helios Neo starts astatine $1,799.99 and comes with up to an Intel Ultra 9 185H, up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, and a full of 3 show options: a 3072 x 1920 astatine 165Hz, 2560 x 1600 astatine 120Hz, oregon 1920 x 1200 astatine 120Hz. All enactment Nvidia Advanced Optimus. The representation and retention options are the aforesaid arsenic the Nitro 14.

The Nitro 16, which starts astatine $1,399.99, tin beryllium configured with up to an Nvidia RTX 4060 and an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS with Ryzen AI oregon 1 of 3 14th Gen Intel Core i7 HX chips, topping retired astatine the Intel Core i7-14700HX. It comes with either a 2560 x 1600 oregon 1920 x 1200 sheet with Nvidia Advanced Optimus oregon the quality to power betwixt the integrated GPU and discrete GPU, depending connected what the strategy is doing, oregon the aforesaid 1920 x 1200 sheet without Optimus. Both AMD and Intel options tin beryllium configured with up to 2TB of retention and up to 32GB of DDR5 SDRAM.

Image: Acer Both the Acer Nitro 14 and 16 athletics the aforesaid chassis design.

All of these caller laptops usage liquid metallic betwixt the CPU and cooling block, which is amended for lowering thermal temperatures compared to accepted thermal paste.

All 4 of Acer’s latest gaming laptops besides person a caller Experience Zone, arsenic Acer calls it, with a room of AI-related functions. It tin beryllium accessed simply by clicking the NitroSense key. They besides each travel with a dedicated Microsoft Copilot key connected the keyboard and a escaped period of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

The 14-inch Nitro and Predator Helios Neo, arsenic good arsenic the AMD and Intel versions of the Nitro 16, volition beryllium disposable successful North America successful May. The Nitro 14 and Predator Helios Neo 14 volition get successful the EMEA successful June 2024, starting astatine €1,199 each. Only the Intel-version Nitro 16 volition beryllium disposable astatine the aforesaid clip for €1,599.