Acer Travelmate Pro review: A laptop that delivers on speed and battery life

Acer Travelmate Pro (TMP645-MG-9419) review: This mild-mannered case conceals a powerful laptop

Acer TravelMate Pro (Model P645-MG-9419)
$1,300.00
 

For individual business users, this laptop offers a nice blend of modern features and solid performance. It's not stylish, but its input ergonomics are very good.

If you want to work incognito at the coffee shop, or blend discreetly into in the boardroom, Acer’s squarish, matte-black TravelMate Pro is the laptop to use. It doesn’t flip, fold, detach, or do any other fancy tricks. But staid is as staid does. The TravelMate Pro is light, rugged, secure, and fast. It has a vivid display with discrete AMD graphics, and it runs for nearly 6 hours on a single charge. It’s also cheaper than much of its business-oriented competition.

 

Acer sent us the TMP645-MG-9419 version of the Travelmate Pro, and that’s the last time I’ll mention the entire model name. Acer’s naming convention—and its website, with dozens of slightly different models—are needlessly confusing and need fixing. The Travelmate Pro Acer sent came outfitted with an Intel Core i7-4500u, 8GB of DDR3/1600 memory, a discrete AMD Radeon HD 8750M graphics processor, and a 256GB Toshiba SSD.    Read More

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