Use the Aspire Switch 10 as a portable tablet, type with its keyboard for productivity, pivot its screen to share a presentation with others, or flip it to watch a movie when space is limited. Switch between laptop, tablet, display screen and tent modes to enhance your work and play.

All told, it's enough that the Switch 10 offers Windows 8.1 without egregious limitations or lag, even if it's not particularly powerful. You also get decent battery life: 7 hours 39 minutes on our battery rundown test.

On the left side of the upper tablet portion, there's a single Mini-USB (for charging the system), Micro-HDMI, a combo in/out 3.5mm audio port, and a MicroSD slot. There's a single full-sized USB port on the right side of the keyboard when it's attached, but that's it.

The Acer Aspire Switch Series is a series of portable and hybrid laptops. The design of the laptop models is stylish thanks to their attractive looking aluminium lids.

The Aspire is much more portable, it has a better keyboard, webcam, and microphone, and it has much better thermal and noise handling. You can get it with an entry-level dedicated GPU, but it won't perform nearly as well for games or workstation tasks.

Acer Aspire (stylized as Λspire or ΛSPIRE) is a series of personal computers by Acer Inc. aimed at casual household users or for small business use. The Aspire series covers both desktop computers and laptops.

In the case of the upcoming Acer Swift 14, we still have some questions about the battery. While we don't know much about its size or efficiency, Acer quotes that it'd last you up to 9.5 hours. This seems great for now, but we're looking forward to testing it more when we have a review unit.

The Acer laptops on average last for up to 5 to 6 years only when you handle and maintain it properly.

Acer Aspire 3: Specs and features You'll find an HDMI port for connecting to external displays and a single USB-C port for hooking up newer accessories and devices.

The Acer Aspire 5 (available at Amazon) has been one of our favorite budget laptops for years. Its specs are a great deal for the price, its body is thin and light, and it comes with a lot of ports - including Ethernet and HDMI.

Click to EnlargeThe Acer Aspire Switch 10 is the latest hybrid device to successfully blur the line between laptops and tablets. For $429, you get a device that can switch from laptop to tablet to presentation device with a flip of the display.

Acer Aspire is a Windows 10 laptop with a 15.60-inch display that has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. It is powered by a Core i7 processor and it comes with 8GB of RAM.