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High-end laptops are great and all, but budget models are what most people are buying, and they deserve some attention as well. Acer has now announced a new series of entry-level Windows laptops, primarily aimed at students.
Acer has just announced the new Acer TravelMate range, complete with Intel’s 13th gen CPUs – just not the i5, i7, and i9 chips you’re used to seeing in the headlines. Instead, you’re getting Intel’s Core i3 N-series budget CPUs, as well as the chipmaker’s replacements for the Celeron and Pentium range, which are just dubbed “Intel Processor.”
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The TravelMate B3 11 and the B3 Spin 11 are powered by up to an Intel Processor N200 CPU, which gives you four single-threaded cores, while the TravelMate B5 14 brings things up to an Intel Core i3-N305, with a total of eight hearts The laptops themselves are supposedly sturdy, while also providing plenty of connectivity thanks to support for Wi-Fi 6E and ultra-fast Type-C and Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports.
Pricing looks decent on the new laptops. The TravelMate B5 14 will start at $429, while the B3 11 will go even lower, at $329 — with the Spin variant costing $399. These are definitely among the cheapest 2023 laptops your money can buy. We’ll need to see some of the other specs to make a final judgment of whether this is a worthy purchase or not — we don’t know anything about RAM or storage, for one — but we’ll know more as we get closer to the launch in April.
Source: Acer