Acer Aspire Go 15 Tries To Compete With the MacBook Neo - DTNS 5279
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Anthropic released Opus 4.8 bringing Dynamic Workflows to Claude Code and Effort settings to everyone else, and Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded at launch marking a huge setback for Jeff Bezos' internet satellite plans.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 29, 2026. |
| 0:08.6 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context and help each other understand. |
| 0:11.8 | And sometimes we air guitar as well. |
| 0:14.9 | Today, Is my husband's birthday. |
| 0:16.6 | Also, Acer has a new laptop that attempts to go toe to toe to toe with the MacBook Neo. |
| 0:22.1 | To to toe to toe with the neo. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Quinn to Wet Now. |
| 0:25.9 | Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. |
| 0:31.9 | Yes, those of you following closely know that CompuTech has been happening. |
| 0:36.9 | CompuTech's the trade show, where |
| 0:39.0 | laptops often get announced. An ACER laptop maker had some announcements. Big surprise. Isn't that weird? |
| 0:47.0 | First, we've got the ACER Swift Air 14. Now, this is a thin and light 14 inchinch Windows 11 laptop, clearly targeting the MacBook Air Crowd if you're on the Mac's side of things. |
| 1:01.7 | Sub. |
| 1:02.4 | Point-6-inch profile. |
| 1:04.5 | So really thin, 2.76-pound chassis, pretty light, reasonably light. |
| 1:10.5 | Powered by an intel core series three processor |
| 1:12.8 | dedicated NPU for AI work has up to 16 gigs of RAM 512 gig SSD storage acer i think the story here |
| 1:21.0 | on this one is that acer's claiming up to 19 hours 19 hours of video playback with a battery on |
| 1:26.9 | board also a zero to 50% charge in 30 minutes, |
| 1:30.6 | starting at $699, or $700 mostly, when it hits North America in August. It's going to arrive in |
| 1:37.2 | Europe and the Middle East and Africa in July. And they also announced a two and one kind of folding |
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