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    Porsche Design Acer Book RS: This stylish, blazingly fast laptop lives up to its name

    Mar 02, 2021 9 minutes
    BY BEN PATTERSON

    The second time’s the charm for the Porsche Design Acer Book RS, a slim, light Porsche-branded laptop that lacks its predecessor’s flash but nails it in the performance department. While 2017’s Porsche Design Book One (go.pcworld.com/pbk1), the first laptop with a detachable display and a 360-degree hinge, took a shock-and-awe approach in terms of its form factor, the elegant but much more traditional Porsche Design Acer Book RS keeps the fireworks under the hood.

    Packing an 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU, this new Porsche absolutely tears it up when it comes to multicore CPU performance, all without compromising battery life or portability. The peppy integrated Iris Xe graphics should keep content creators busy. Even better, the Porsche Design Acer Book RS is priced more like a Honda (well, one of the nicer ones, anyway) than a Porsche 911.

    CONFIGURATION

    Let’s dive into the specifications of our Porsche Design Acer Book RS review unit (with the poetic model name AP714-51T-59ZV), which is available for $1,400 from Acer (go.pcworld.com/14ac):

    CPU: Quad-core Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor

    Memory: Dual-channel 8GB LPDDR4X RAM

    Graphics: Integrated Intel Iris Xe

    Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD

    Display: 14-inch, 1920x1080 IPS touchscreen

    Webcam: 720p

    Connectivity: Thunderbolt 4, two SuperSpeed (5Gbps) USB Type-A ports, HDMI 2.0, combo audio jack

    Networking: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1

    Biometrics: Fingerprint reader

    Battery capacity: 56 watt-hour

    Dimensions: 12.55 x 8.24 x 0.63 inches

    Weight: 2.6 pounds (measured), 6 ounces (power brick)

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