Acer goes Intel-only with the latest Aspire laptops

Acer’s ditching AMD in its latest lineup of Aspire 3 and Aspire 5 laptops. The company’s new Aspire 5 devices come only with options for Intel and Nvidia products, ranging up to a 10-core Intel 13th Gen Core i7 1355U, along with up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 graphics card.

That’s a sizeable bump from the (up to) four-core Intel i7-1165G7 processor (or the up-to-eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 5700U) offered in the Aspire 5 lineup released last year, although a newer model now comes with a 10-core Intel 12th Gen Core i7-1255U. Just like the previous generation, Acer’s newly released lineup also features three display sizes: 14 inches, 15.6 inches, and 17.3 inches.

The Aspire 5 comes with storage options that max out at 32GB of DDR4 RAM and a...

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