50 PCWorld MARCH 2021REVIEWS
IMAGE: BEN PATTERSONT
he second time’s the charm for the
Porsche Design Acer Book RS, a
slim, light Porsche-branded laptop
that lacks its predecessor’s flash but
nails it in the performance department. While
2017’s Porsche Design Book One (go.
pcworld.com/pbk1), the first laptop with adetachable display and a 360-degree hinge,
took a shock-and-awe approach in terms of its
form factor, the elegant but much more
traditional Porsche Design Acer Book RS
keeps the fireworks under the hood.
Packing an 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU,
this new Porsche absolutely tears it up when itPorsche Design Acer Book RS:
This stylish, blazingly fast laptop
lives up to its name
The detachable display and 360-degree hinge of the original Porsche Design Book One
are gone, now replaced by sheer speed. BY BEN PATTERSON