STEAM DECK NEWS – It’s huge in size, and that goes for the weight too, as you’ll be holding three times the weight of the Nintendo Switch…
Acer is also looking to enter the handheld PC market. This device, the Nitro Blaze 11, was unveiled at CES 2025 (where the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 graphics cards were also unveiled and mentioned in today’s news), and it doesn’t seem to want to (or know how to?) take the portability issue very seriously. The number eleven in the platform name is no coincidence either…
The Nitro Blaze 11 has a 10.95″ (27.81 cm) display with 144 Hz WQXGA resolution. According to the press release, the machine is powered by an AMD Ryzen 8040 APU with a Radeon 780M GPU. In terms of memory, it’s a bit behind many other machines, as Acer’s machine has 16 gigabytes of LPDDR5X RAM. For storage, you can also ask for up to 2TB of NVMe SSD in the machine.
The weight was mentioned at the beginning for a reason, because the Acer Nitro Blaze is a massive little machine… It weighs 1050 grams. That’s more than one and a half times the weight of a Steam Deck OLED model and more than three times the weight of the Nintendo Switch! That can be a bit of a strain when you’re holding a device that weighs over 1 kilo, but Acer has taken the Nintendo Switch approach by making the controllers detachable and using a stand for the display that you can use for the big N’s device. This way, our wrists can sigh with relief that we don’t have to hold Acer’s machine all the time.
The device will not be a cheap treat. Sometime in the second quarter of 2025 (between April and June), the Acer Nitro Blaze 11 will be available for $1,100. If you want to settle for a smaller screen, you can opt for the Acer Nitro Blaze 8 with an 8.8″ (22.35 cm) display, but that will also cost $900…
Source: PCGamer
