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
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