This budget-friendly laptop handles AI like a pro — and is $250 off during early Black Friday sales

مما يجعله 450 دولارًا بدلاً من سعر القائمة العادي البالغ 700 دولار. We’re not sure how long the pre-Black Friday sale will last, so if you’ve been wanting to get an AI-powered laptop for a fraction of the price, here’s your chance.

• Laptop prices are rising — and the higher they are, the better Acer’s Aspire 14 AI will look.
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• The Intel Lunar Lake CPU offers good performance for the price and long battery life.
• The display and design won’t blow you away, but the graphics and AI capabilities aren’t far behind those of its more expensive rivals.

when Black Friday deal That’s down to $450 at Costco, making it the cheapest Copilot Plus PC I’ve seen — and a great value.

Budget laptop shoppers will find no shortage of cheap models around $500 whose prices are so low for the simple fact that they are older laptops with outdated components that are getting older with each passing day. لا يقع جهاز Acer Aspire 14 AI ضمن هذه الفئة. إنه الكمبيوتر المحمول النادر الذي يتميز بسعر مناسب للميزانية ومكونات حديثة. إنه يعتمد على معالج Intel Core Ultra Series 2 الحالي (الذي يحمل الاسم الرمزي Moon Lake) which offers good performance for the price, along with great battery life and competitive AI performance. The Aspire 14 AI also wins points for offering more RAM and storage than most budget laptops. في الواقع، انها واحدة من بلدي .

I’m still waiting for the killer AI app to make an AI laptop CPU a must-have, but it’s nice to know that when it arrives, you’ll have a device designed for it.

With an Intel Core Ultra 5 CPU containing an NPU capable of performing 40 trillion operations per second, the Aspire 14 AI achieves minimum requirements . Its AI processor can offload AI workloads — constantly capturing Windows Recall snapshots, blurring backgrounds for video calls and producing live subtitles — to its NPU, keeping the CPU and GPU free for whatever primary task it’s working on.

Future proofing is always valuable in any laptop, especially in a budget model where it’s not always a given. You should be careful when shopping for a low-cost laptop because many of the offers are older models containing previous-generation components that are discounted in an attempt to clear inventory for newer units.

During testing, the Aspire 14 AI held up with the more expensive Copilot Plus PCs I’ve tested. Its scores in our apps, graphics, and AI benchmarks weren’t that far removed from those of its more expensive competitors. Its integrated Intel GPU doesn’t offer much in the way of 3D gaming, but the same can be said for any Copilot Plus PC, as I’ve yet to encounter one with dedicated graphics.

With the Aspire 14 AI, you can avoid the budget laptop trap of buying one with old or soon-to-be obsolete parts. ويمكنك أيضًا تخطي شبح الوحش البلاستيكي الصرير. Many budget laptops have flimsy plastic enclosures, but the Aspire 14 AI has aluminum top and bottom panels with just a plastic keyboard surface. The keyboard’s surface feels solid and doesn’t bend or flex like the thin plastic typically found on other budget models. It’s a sturdy laptop, and you’ll have to look closely to tell it apart from one of Acer’s flagship Swift laptops.

Specifications

• CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 226V
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• weight: 3.05 pounds
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The best part of the Aspire 14 AI is that you get a modern CPU that delivers the performance needed for a laptop to serve as your primary machine and not just a cheap, underpowered second system. The efficient Intel Core Ultra CPU also allows the Aspire 14 AI to run for approximately 19 hours on a single charge while providing a little future-proofing with its AI capabilities.

The uninspiring design and display are really the only elements that scream “budget laptop.” The rest of the package is more standard than budget, including 16GB of RAM and a spacious 1TB SSD. Typically, you’ll look for 8GB of RAM and either a 256GB or 512GB SSD when shopping for a $500-$700 laptop. And this is the deal Costco makes

If you’re willing to spend a little more, I have two other Copilot Plus computers you should check out. the Asus ZenBook A14