Acer is announcing a action of caller laptops for CES 2026: mini refreshes crossed its Swift lines and a fewer Nitro and Predator gaming laptops. But there’s thing mini astir the haptic trackpad connected the caller Acer Swift 16 AI, which Acer claims is the world’s largest haptic one. Big trackpads are reasonably prevalent connected larger laptops, for illustration the Razer Blade 16, but they’re usually mechanical, not haptic — and not this big. The Swift 16 moreover includes a stylus you tin usage connected this shot section of a trackpad for immoderate sketching and editing without an further tablet aliases Wacom slate.
The Swift 16 AI will besides beryllium getting Intel Panther Lake chips (up to the Core Ultra X9 388H), an optional OLED display, and a plethora of ports. Acer has different laptops getting refreshed pinch Intel’s caller Panther Lake chips: the lower-cost Swift Go 14 AI and the bladed and ray Swift Edge 14 AI and Swift Edge 16 AI. The larger Swift Go 16 AI will person AMD.
These are each mostly spot bump models pinch immoderate flimsy tweaks, but location are now much options for OLED displays crossed them each — which is ever welcome. The Swift Go and Swift Edge models besides characteristic media controls built into their mechanical trackpads, showing up contextually erstwhile detected.
1/19Look astatine this thing. The Swift 16’s haptic trackpad measures 175.5 x 109.7mm (6.9 x 4.3 inches).
Over connected the gaming laptop side, Acer has caller Nitro V 16S AI, which is somewhat supra its entry-level offerings, and a higher-end Predator Helios Neo 16S AI. The caller Nitro starts pinch an RTX 5050 GPU and goes up to an RTX 5070. The caller Predator Helios Neo 16S is Acer’s starting constituent into its flagship Predator sub-brand. It excessively tops retired astatine an RTX 5070, but it’s sewage a overmuch sleeker build and optional OLED display. Each of these caller Acer gaming laptops is outfitted pinch Intel Panther Lake processors to complement their Nvidia GPUs.
Interestingly, contempt “AI” still being jammed down our throats successful each these laptop names, Acer has scrapped its AI lid logo and light-up NPU activity show connected the trackpads. Hmm. I wonder why.
It feels for illustration a spot of a sleepy CES for Acer laptops. Last twelvemonth of people was buoyed by the motorboat of caller RTX 50-series GPUs crossed the board. But Acer was besides looking to shingle things up pinch its Blaze gaming handheld announcements, including the jumbo-sized Blaze 11 that I concisely sewage my hands on (and could hardly agelong my fingers around) successful Vegas. I asked astir the Blaze 11 successful my preview briefing pinch Acer, and institution reps told maine it’s connected hiatus aft US tariffs arrived soon aft its announcement. Lisa Emard of Acer America Corporation told me, “We coiled up conscionable focusing connected our halfway products, connected laptops … We don’t person immoderate imminent plans to connection them.”
Acer isn’t announcing pricing of immoderate of these caller laptops conscionable yet. The Swift 16 AI and Swift Go 16 AI are expected successful Q1 2026. The different Swifts are owed retired successful Q2. The Nitro V 16S AI and Predator Helios Neo 16S AI are launching successful Q3. Some models whitethorn onshore sooner successful different regions.
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