11.6” portables tend to be underpowered, in fact most are netbooks with Atom or AMD Neo CPUs rather than the more powerful Intel Core i CPUs found in standard sized laptops. Want more power in your ...

The Acer Aspire One netbook. It’s inexpensive, it’s tiny, and the base-level version only comes with 512MB of RAM. I cracked open the case, voided the warranty, and added an extra gigabyte. Watch the ...

While it’s thicker and heavier than we’d like and it suffers from an iffy display, the Optane memory-equipped Acer Aspire 5 delivers impressive quad-core performance for hundreds less than its ...

While it has nice specs, the Acer Aspire 5 15-inch shows some cut corners for its $600 price tag. A small battery, a mediocre keyboard, and the lack of premium touches make it feel less-than-modern.

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When it comes to computers, "budget" often means "retro." Many low-cost laptops have the old-school 15.6-inch, 16:9 aspect ratio screens that their more upscale cousins have abandoned. By contrast, ...

Acer recently introduced a series of affordable, portable Windows notebooks with low-power processors aimed at balancing performance and battery life. The Acer Aspire E 11 line of notebooks feature 11 ...