News - Acer Aspire R7 gets Haswell update and active stylus support

[HEXUS]

A US$100 price cut also helps enhance the appeal of this interesting convertible.

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[maverik-sg1]

Gorgeous, if I was in the market for something like this, it would definitely be considered.

[CoolHotCold]

The Easel mode is interesting.

I've actually held one of these and it's a lot lighter than you'd expect and the hinge is solid.

[cptwhite_uk]

I always had a soft spot for the original design. You get a lot of spec for your money, hopefully they'll offer SSD options, or make it easy enough to upgrade yourself.

Reasonable dedicated graphics (GT 750M), 8Gb RAM standard, Haswell i5 4200U as standard for $900, even if that was a direct conversion to £ that's a great price for a larger convertible workhorse laptop. Also Widi and other niceties. Looks like they're going for a decent implementation of touch with intelligent palm rejection as well, just hope they allow somewhere to store the stylus within the chassis.

Edit: Seems the GPU isn't in the standard config so it's likely to be north of £1000 for any option with that...

[Pleiades]

Link to the tech specs states $1998, not quite so much of a bargain...

[edzieba]

I like the idea of the hinge, but the damn screen still can't fold flat with the screen up! You try and write on it with a stylus, and the thing will wobble on it's hinge.

[cptwhite_uk]

It's available from BestBuy for $900 here:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-aspire-2-in-1-15-6-touch-screen-laptop-8gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive-silver/2477002.p

+£1000 for a GPU upgrade seems unlikely?

[mtyson]

Specs linked to are on Singapore site and in Singapore Dollars.

Link to the tech specs states $1998, not quite so much of a bargain...