Acer announces USB Type-C monitors alongside new premium laptops

Acer is kicking off its CES with a flurry of new PCs, and while the company is still primarily known for its budget offerings, its newest high-end laptops all have some good ideas to offer.

The most intriguing is the Aspire Switch 12 S, a two-in-one laptop that ignores most of Acer’s early, awkward convertible efforts. It’s a premium Skylake Core M tablet that connects to a keyboard base with magnets, and when the tablet is snapped in it looks pretty much like a regular laptop. It includes a lot of the features you’d want from a high-end laptop, too—12.5-inch 1080p and 3840×2160 IPS display options, Thunderbolt 3 (via a USB Type-C port that supports full 10Gbps USB 3.1 speeds), a rear-facing Intel RealSense 3D camera, 867Mbps 802.11ac Wi-Fi, a backlit keyboard, two USB 3.0 ports, a micro HDMI port, a micro SD card reader, and a headphone jack. It will be available with both 4GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of storage.

When connected to its keyboard dock, the Switch 12 S weighs 3.09 pounds (1.4kg) and is 0.68 inches (17.3mm) thick—this isn’t as thin or light as Apple’s MacBook or some of the other dedicated laptops we’ve seen, but if you want the ability to detach the 1.76 pound (800g) tablet, it might be worth the tradeoff to you. Acer hasn’t given any estimated battery life figures for the convertible, though, and devices like this usually have separate batteries in both the screen and the base. We’ve asked Acer for more information and will update this article if we get a response.

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