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Acer Travel Mate X5

THE ACER TRAVELMATE X5 doesn’t break any new ground for portable computing technology, its modest aim is to be better than what can before it.

It was designed for those that want something almost identical to the machine they bought five years ago, with a fragrant whiff of new CPU generation smell. And for that customer, Acer has taken an 8th Generation Intel CPU and levered it into a very thin, and largely by-the-numbers, 14-inch notebook.

However, it does have the odd idiosyncrasy, one of those being the organisation of

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