Acer is one of the world’s most popular PC brands. Recently, the company unveiled the Aspire 3, India’s first laptop powered by the Ryzen 5 7000 series chipset. Acer claims that the Aspire 3 combines multitasking and productivity into a neat, stylish package that is perfect for everyday performance.

The Aspire 3 has a compact design, with the laptop weighing in at merely 1.6 kilograms. It features a sleek metallic cover that adds to the attractiveness of the design. The laptop is only 18.9 mm thick while also having an additional 17 percent thermal capacity. Acer attributes this to a 78 percent increase in fan surface area, which prevents overheating. The Aspire 3 has a 15.6-inch FHD display equipped with Acer BlueLightShield to reduce the levels of blue light. Additionally, the company claims that its TNR solution enhances the quality of the camera images by blending noisy pixels into other frames, especially in low-light conditions. 

As mentioned previously, Acer Aspire 3 is powered by the AMD Ryzen 7000 Series processors with Radeon graphics.  It is based on a 6nm Zen 2 architecture with up to 4 Cores and 8 threads, enhancing performance, audio and video streaming, and maximizing battery life. In terms of connectivity options, the laptop is equipped with a full-function USB Type-C port and an HDMI port. For wireless connectivity, the Aspire 3 has WiFi 6E as well. The company further claims that with PurifiedVoice, Acer’s AI can significantly reduce background noise for video calls on both sides, and the technology works with external microphones and headphones as well. 

The Aspire 3 is priced at INR 47,990 (~$588), which places it in the same segment as other mid-range laptops. The laptop is available at Acer Exclusive Stores, Acer E-store, Vijay Sales, Amazon, and other stores across India. 

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Microsoft launched the surface laptop 3 back in 2019. Hence, a successor is long due for the Windows machine. Amidst a lot of reports, Geekbench listing strengthens the rumor that Microsoft could partner with AMD again.

A Geekbench listing shows the device in testing as the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4. It has a codename ‘renoir’ indicating that the successor of the 2019 notebook will also have a custom-made APU(Zen 2 architecture) and Vega GPU. Although the processor is listed as AMD Ryzen 5 3580U, we think it could just be a placeholder.

This is because the Ryzen 5 3580U found on the predecessor has 4-cores and not a Hexa-core CPU as mentioned in the listing. Hence, the exact version of the Ryzen 5 processor is a mystery at least for now but the listing strongly hints a new ‘Ryzen Surface Edition’ is coming.

Anyway, the listing also shows that the laptop will have 8GB DDR4 SDRAM and run Windows 10 OS. The device in testing scores about 1,063 in single-core and 5,726 in multi-core departments. We will have to wait for the real-world tests to find out if this outsmart the rival Intel 11th-gen CPUs.

Speaking of which, the Surface Laptop 4 is expected to come in 13.5-inch and 15-inch models. Unlike earlier, rumors say that Microsoft will offer AMD (Ryzen 5/7) CPUs as a choice for both sizes in addition to Intel (Core-i5/i7).

The predecessor Surface Laptop 3 had only the Type-C port and 3.5mm jacks so it would be nice of Microsoft to include an HDMI port/SD card reader at a time when giants like Apple are considering it.

The company is expected to launch the Surface Laptop 4 in April which means we could be seeing more leaks in the near future.

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