Acer Brandishes 8th Gen Intel CPUs In New Nitro 5 Spin Notebook (Updated)

Updated, 8-22-2017, 3:20PM CT: Acer reached out with more information about the new Nitro 5 Spin notebook. It will be available with Intel Core i7-8550U and i5-8250U, which is Kaby Lake Refresh, not Coffee Lake. The article below was changed to reflect this new information.

As a cavalcade of vendors start announcing their respective 8^th generation Lake processor products, Acer is looking to put its own “spin” on the anticipated CPU launch with the new Nitro 5 Spin notebook.

The new laptop is being marketed as a casual gaming convertible, with a 15.6” 1920 x 1080 IPS display that can be positioned multiple ways depending on your workload and environment (the hinge rotates 360 degrees). The Nitro 5 Spin features an all-aluminum chassis with a black brushed hairline finish and red accents, an LED-backlit keyboard, and up to 10 hours of battery life. Full specifications and available configurations of the Acer Nitro 5 Spin are not yet known, but the company later reached out to clarify that it would sport the Core i7-8550U or i5-8250U processor.

Memory options for the Acer Nitro 5 Spin are also not yet available, but we do know that the new notebook will feature up to a 512GB PCIe SSD and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics. The company also said that 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wi-Fi would also be available, but full storage, graphics, and networking options are currently unknown.

Acer didn’t reveal much more than the fact that it too will have 8^th gen Intel processors in an upcoming product, but it did let us know that the Nitro 5 Spin would be arriving sometime in October, starting at $999.