Conceptd 7 WHITE KNIGHT
Acer’s laptop has been put together with 2D and 3D artists in mind. We find out if it’s an affordable creative solution
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£2,799 he Conceptd 7 is part of Acer’s series of laptops and desktop aimed at designers and creatives. It’s a 15.6-inch laptop with a 4K screen that has lovely thin bezels. But how good is it, considering that many similarly targeted devices such as Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 or Lenovo’s Thinkpad P1 are available?
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Inside it’s fitted with an Intel Core i7-9750h, Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 2080 Max-q with 32GB of memory and a 1TB PCIE solid-state drive (SSD). It’s a great laptop specification in anyone’s books. The Intel Core i7-9750h is a six-core processor, running at 2.6GHZ with a 4.5GHZ Turbo Frequency.
The RTX 2080 Max-q graphics card in the Conceptd 7 has 8GB of GDDR6
but aside from the angled corners there are few other interesting design features of note.
More noticeable is the large space under the display, which makes the screen look as if it’s been squashed upwards. Even though other laptops have the same area under their display, it looks worse on the Conceptd 7 because of the white casing.
The Conceptd 7 has a colouraccurate screen that looks a lot better than most desktop displays, presenting 100 per cent Adobergb colour coverage that looks fantastic. A colour-accurate display is an oftoverlooked component of a design rig, so its inclusion on Acer’s device is a worthy addition.
This isn’t the only option from Acer, of course. The Conceptd range also includes a (black) Conceptd 9 Pro. This is a higher spec 17-inch RTX Studio laptop that swaps the Geforce
The Acer Conceptd 7 has a colouraccurate screen that looks a lot better than most desktop displays…
★★★★★ for a Quadro RTX 5000, the Core i7 for a Core i9 and raises the maximum SSD storage to 2TB, but this is nudging £5,000. And at the other end of the scale there’s a Conceptd 7 with an RTX 2060, smaller 512GB SSD and just 16GB of memory for £2,299.
While the Conceptd 7 is still a pricey investment, it’s one of the best laptops for 2D and 3D work – in particular, retaining high performance without stepping over the £3,000 line.