Acer just revealed the TravelMate P16 14 AI, the company’s new thin-and-light laptop for productivity work. It looks like a capable MacBook Air competitor, if you’d rather stick to Windows than macOS.
The Acer TravelMate P6 14 AI (quite the name) is a sleek Windows laptop, powered by Intel’s brand-new Core Ultra Series 2 processors. The big improvement there is a built-in neural processing unit (NPU), with “up to 48 TOPS” of performance for local AI and machine learning workloads. That unlocks Windows system features like Live Captions with real-time translation, camera and microphone post-processing effects, and AI image generation. Recall should also be available once Microsoft releases the fixed version.
This is one of many recent “Copilot+ PC” laptops we’ve seen recently, meaning it’s designed to handle more local AI tasks, and it has a Copilot key on the keyboard for quick access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI (which does not run locally on the laptop). Even if you don’t care about running local AI chatbots or other similar tools, the NPU will help with many real-world use cases.
The TravelMate laptop measures just 2.35 x 9.03 x 0.63/0.66 inches (313.7 x 229.3 x 15.90/16.65 mm), and it weighs just 2.18 pounds (0.99 kg). That’s about as thin as the current MacBook Pro, which has a depth of 0.61 inches. Acer didn’t skimp out on ports, though: you get two Thunderbolt 4/USB4 Type-C ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A connectors, HDMI 2.1, and an audio jack.
The display is a large 14-inch 16:10 screen, with a maximum brightness of 400 nits and 100% sRGB coverage. Depending on the model, the resolution is either WQXGA+ (2880×1800) or WUXGA (1920×1200). The webcam above the screen has a resolution of 1440p with a physical privacy shutter.
Acer will sell the laptop with several Intel Core Ultra 7 processor options, including the Ultra 7 268V, Ultra 7 266V, Ultra 7 258V, and Ultra 7 256V. There will also be a lower-end Intel Core Ultra 5 225V configuration. It will also include Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, up to 1TB of M.2 SSD storage, and up to 32GB RAM. The internal battery is a 65Whr unit, which lasts “up to 14 hours” on a single charge, according to Acer’s testing with MobileMark 2025.
The TravelMate P6 14 AI looks like a great premium Windows laptop on paper, as long as you’re not planning on playing graphically-demanding games or editing high-resolution video—there’s no discrete graphics card. It will start at $1,499.99 when it arrives in January, and it should be available from Acer’s online store and other retailers.
Source: Acer
