day-to-day tasks. Windows 10 feels
incredibly smooth and responsive
on the laptop, and when used for
photo editing and image
manipulating, the RTX graphics
card means the laptop doesn’t even
break a sweat.
In fact, using it for these kind of
tasks would be doing a disservice
to the laptop – as well as your bank
balance. The power and price of the
ConceptD 7 – especially the
configuration that was sent to us- means it offers a level of
performance that only a few
people will need.
Of course, the RTX 2080 is also a
formidable gaming GPU, and while
the ConceptD 7 is most definitely
not advertised as a gaming laptop,
it is capable of playing the latest
games at high settings and
resolutions. If you’re a graphic
designer, say, who also likes playing
games, then the ConceptD 7 is a
more easily justifiable purchase, as
it’s adept at both work and play.
As is so often the case with
powerful laptops, the battery life of
the ConceptD 7 isn’t great. It lasted
five hours and 59 minutes in our
benchmark test, which runs a
looped 1080p video.
That’s not offensively low, and
will last you a day if you’re careful,
but remember that playing a video
isn’t particularly taxing. If you
perform more intensive tasks, such
as rendering 3D graphics, then the
battery is going to drain a lot faster.
While this isn’t unusual for such a
high-end laptop, the MacBook Pro
16-inch shows you can have
powerful components and a long
battery life, as it managed 11 hours
and 41 minutes in our battery test - a huge difference.
An incredibly powerful laptop
that’s packed with some of the
best mobile technology.colored gadgets in general –
looking rather grubby after a while.
Thankfully, during our time with
the ConceptD 7 it stayed as
vibrant as when we first unpacked
it, and Acer says it has a stain-
resistant coating that protects
it from yellowing and marks.
Unfortunately, this also means it
doesn’tquitehavethepremium
lookandfeeloflaptopsmadeout
of metal, such as the MacBook Pro.
With dimensions of 17.90 x 358.5
x 255mm and a weight of 2.10kg,
the ConceptD 7 is by no means a
bulky laptop, but it’s not as svelte
as the MacBook Pro 16-inch, which
measures up at 16.2 x 357.9 x
245.9mm, and weighs 2kg.
On paper that might not look
like a huge difference, but you can
certainly tell when viewing the
two laptops side-by-side, or
when carrying them around. The
MacBook Pro just feels like a better
put together device, with a classier
look as well.
There’s one area where the
ConceptD 7 absolutely trounces the
MacBook Pro 16-inch, and justifies
the larger size and shape, and that’s
the array of ports on offer. While
the MacBook only offers four
Thunderbolt 3 ports and an audio
jack, the Acer ConceptD 7 has three
USB 3.1 ports, a full-size HDMI 2.0
port, a mini DisplayPort 1.4, a
ThunderBolt 3 USB-C port and an
Ethernet port.
This instantly makes it a much
moreversatiledevicethanApple’s.Whenlookingfora professional
laptop for working on, you want
something that allows you to
plug in your devices without
having to fiddle around with
adapters. This is something the
ConceptD 7 provides in spades.
The only noticeable absence is a
memory card slot, which will
disappoint photographers.Performance and battery
The model we’ve reviewed comes
with 32GB of RAM, an Intel Core
i7-9750H six-core processor and
Nvidia RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics
card, along with a 1TB SSD. These
are some very impressive
specifications, so it’s no surprise
that it performs brilliantly in our
benchmark tests, as well as in“You want something that allows you to plug in all
your devices without having to fiddle around”
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Specs as reviewed
Acer ConceptD 7
Supplier http://www.acer.com
CPU Intel Core i7-9750H
GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 8GB
RAM 32GB
Storage 1TB PCIe SSD
Connectivity Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5
Dimensions 35.8 x 25.4 x 1.8cm
Weight 2.1kg