The Acer Aspire R14 was refreshed with a Skylake processor and this device will start selling soon in the US and elsewhere starting at $700.

The new device supports a thinner 360-degree dual torque hinge and offers the familiar four modes of operation – it can flip and turn better than its predecessor.

The new redesigned R14 notebook is thinner having 18.5 mm instead of the  23.8 mm with last year's model. The new hairline-brush metallic finish makes it more attractiver. The new R14 is lighter as the weight got slightly down from current 1.98KG to 1.90 KG. The new model has up to 8GB DDR3L RAM and MU-MIMO 802.11ac wireless.  

The new notebook comes with Acer's Purified Voice digital signal processing technology that should improve Cortana. This device comes with a Windows 10 out of the box. It puzzles us why Acer device to use DDR3L memory instead of DDR4L but this was probably just being cheap... er a "cost related decision."

The Acer Aspire R14 2in1 device will have to go against Dell's XPS 14 and the Lenovo Yoga 14 inch line. Why wins will depend on how much you need a notebook that bends or not and if this so called tablet mode for continuum is so important for you.