Acer unveils new gaming PCs, including its first handheld and an Arrow Lake desktop [Video]

In a nutshell: The recent IFA event in Berlin featured new product launches and announcements from various companies. Acer seized the opportunity to unveil several new PCs across multiple hardware tiers, including a behemoth desktop powered by Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake CPU architecture and Acer’s first entry into the rapidly growing handheld gaming PC market.

Acer’s showcase featured an upcoming gaming desktop, two mainstream laptops, and the company’s first handheld gaming PC. Although Acer’s branding attempts to align these new products with the emerging AI PC trend, they primarily feature relatively mature processors.

The new Predator Orion 7000 desktop, equipped with unspecified “next-gen Arrow Lake” chips, is the flagship of the lineup and the only model to include CPUs that meet Microsoft’s “AI PC” specifications. Intel has not yet fully unveiled Arrow Lake, but this series, which succeeds the …