But Acer's greenest laptop is actually grey...
The Acer Vero 16 is a bold and largely successful experiment in using the promise of recycled materials to sell a laptop. It’s a power-efficient model which will no doubt serve well as an office workhorse or portable pal for a photographer, but constantly having to explain why the keyboard looks the way it does will probably get tiresome.When you get the Acer Vero 16 out of its box, a few things can immediately strike you as a little strange.
Sure, those two keys stand out, but so do the yellow speckles in the grey plastic casing, and as this is a review of a laptop and not somewhere to go on a rant about the problem of e-waste, we’ll just say that it is nice to see a manufacturer taking this sort of thing seriously, even if it should probably go further. Only 60% recycled?
The keyboard is right up to date, with the new dedicated key to invoke the Copilot chatbot, and has a decent-sized Enter key instead of a massive ‘#’. There's a slim numpad squeezed down the side, and while the keys themselves don’t have a lot of travel, they’re nicely backlit and no problem to type on.
The Ultra 7 155U is a 12-core chip, but eight of them are the Efficiency cores optimised for power efficiency rather than processing capability, and two are low-power E-cores - the ‘U’ in the processor’s name marks it out as a low-power model. Only two are the P-cores that provide the real speed, which puts it immediately behind other recent machines.
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