Acer Aspire 16 AI Wins Editors' Choice: 3.23-Pound OLED Beats 16-Inch Rivals

PCWorld awarded its Editors' Choice designation to the Acer Aspire 16 AI, a $1,279.99 laptop powered by Intel's first consumer chip on the 18A process, the Core Ultra 7 355. It pairs a 16-inch OLED panel with a 3.23-pound chassis and nearly 12 hours of battery life.

• Core Ultra 7 355 is Intel's first shipping consumer chip on the 18A node, built at Fab 52 in Arizona
• NPU delivers up to 49 TOPS, above Microsoft's 40 TOPS Copilot+ threshold
• 16:10 OLED covers 100% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB but peaks at only 300 nits
• At 3.23 pounds it undercuts typical 4–5 pound 16-inch laptops in this price class