Known for its wide range of PC products, including gaming, Acer has now expanded into handheld gaming PCs with the Nitro Blaze 7. Nitro Blaze 7 isn’t an Android device. It is a fully functional Windows 11 PC. As a result, you can access all your PC games from anywhere.
The Acer Nitro Blaze looks, for the most part, like a standard Windows handheld, with front-firing speakers, a microSD card slot, standard D-pad/thumbstick positions, and a few extra buttons. The Nitro logo looks like something that could be used to control the CPU’s wattage, although Acer hasn’t specified what each one does.
Specs:
Rather than using a Ryzen Z1 Extreme, it opts for a Hawk Point-based Ryzen 7 8840HS, along with a Radeon 780M integrated graphics chip.
Acer Nitro Blaze comes with 2 TB of storage (2230 NVMe SSD) and 16 GB of 7500 MT/s LPDDR5x RAM. The console is powered by a 50 Wh battery that can be charged with a 65 Watt USB-C charger. It will be interesting to see how both consoles perform in terms of battery life.
You get a 7-inch IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080, a refresh rate of 144 Hz, 500 nits of brightness, 100% sRGB colour gamut coverage, and 7 ms reaction time. It is claimed to be a native landscape panel by Acer. In addition, you get two USB Type-C (USB 4.0) ports on the console, similar to what MSI has planned with its next-generation Lunar Lake-powered Claw 8 AI.
There are no back paddles on the Acer Nitro Blaze, and it only supports Wi-Fi 6E instead of Wi-Fi 7. An extra set of mappable keys in an input-limited environment is always useful, even if they aren’t useful for most users. Acer says it will reveal prices later.
