Acer Aspire R11: The convertible laptop for everyone

Acer today announced a new convertible laptop, called Aspire R 11. The display is 11.6 inches, while the hinge 360 ​° allows you to switch seamlessly four modes of use for creating and sharing. Declared autonomy of 8 hours and strike price.

The sector of laptops is very different from what it was only a few years ago. Today in the market, you can find several hybridizations between laptop and tablet, forming actually real lines of products that are an alternative to the choice of owning a traditional laptop alongside a tablet.

Besides the models 2 in 1 are also that so-called convertible, in which the display does not come off but is hinged with special devices that allow him to take the device configurations. Among these are the new Acer Aspire R11, designed to keep the total size and be contained at the same time thanks to everyone at an affordable price, of course, in the face of some waivers on pure performance plan (stopped understanding that the majority of users what is offered by Aspire R11 is more than enough).

The Acer Aspire R11 is easily recognized by a pattern made with a laser engraving on the back of the display and recovered at the bottom is scratch resistant and keeps a firm grip. The two colors, blue (sky blue) or white cloud (white cloud), with a touch screen HD 11.6-inch Zero Air Gap technology and protected by Gorilla Glass, as on smartphones to speak.

What we find under the shell? In terms of processors, we find models of Intel Pentium, in which also the management of the graphics; Acer RAM on the front tells us that we reach a maximum of 8 GB of system memory DDR3L (we do not know how the basic number), while storage can be up to 1 TB of hard drive. Also present were the Acer Crystal Eye HD webcam, card reader SD Card, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connections and full-size HDMI and VGA. And for Aspire R11 is provided a free upgrade to Windows 10.

There are four ways to adapt to different situations of use, guaranteed by the hinge to 360°: in addition to the traditional ” laptop ” , useful work, we find that ” pad ” and ” display “, which assume greater importance when comes in entertainment and sharing of video content or audio. The hinge has a design that Acer calls ” double-couple ” : opens without effort but, at the same time, you can apply an additional force that stabilizes the panel and reduces the oscillation when used with the fingers.

Planned by engineers the opportunity for Acer Aspire R11 to reverse automatically output audio channels based on the orientation of the screen. It has also worked extensively on the sound quality: Acer TrueHarmony a mix of hardware and software technologies designed precisely to increase the average quality that is usually found in these solutions. Of note it is also the Acer BluelightShiel technology, designed for a reading experience not to weary eyes and changes the intensity of the light blue screen.

• Low Reduction: reduces emissions of a blue-light module LED backlighting by 18%, is as effective as a pair of glasses anti-blue light.
• Media reduction and high reduction: reduce emissions of the blue-light module LED backlighting by 36% and 54%.
• Mode prolonged use: designed for professionals and regulated by optical engineers to reduce fatigue in the long run.

Anyone interested in Acer Aspire R 11 know that the availability date is in June.