Intel teased its dedicated laptop GPU earlier in October, and it’s now rolling out the technology in earnest. The chip designer has announced that the first laptops using its Iris Xe Max graphics chip are available in some form, including the previously revealed Acer Swift 3X, the ASUS VivoBook Flip TP470 and Dell’s Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1. You can buy the Dell hybrid at Best Buy now in the US, although you’ll have to wait for the Acer and ASUS machines to make their way stateside.

Iris Xe Max is, as you might guess, Intel’s answer to the low-end GPUs you

Acer is still finding ways to produce stand-out Chromebooks. The PC maker has unveiled its first Chrome OS laptops with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7c, the Chromebook Spin 513 and its Enterprise Spin 513 counterpart, and both promise to keep you going when you’re nowhere near a wall outlet or WiFi. The 13.3-inch convertibles offer up to 14 hours of claimed battery life as well as optional LTE data. Those might not be as useful during a pandemic when you’re likely staying at home, but they could help if you’d rather work in the backyard than your home office.

The designs are relatively

Frustratingly, this wasn’t final hardware and we weren’t able to run any sort of performance tests on the Swift 3X. But it’ll be fascinating to put the finished version through its paces when review samples start to surface, and see just how much power it offers in the real world.

Acer says that the Swift 3X, and its 14-inch FHD IPS display, caters to “creative professionals, such as photographers and YouTubers.” However, these days, pretty much every piece of consumer tech is aimed at those groups. And to be honest, the Swift series gives off a little bit too much

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