Acer Veriton RI110 Mini PC Gets Core Ultra X7, Arc B390 and OCuLink

Until this week, Acer Veriton RI110 was a quiet business workhorse — a compact desktop built for spreadsheets, video calls, and office admin, with integrated graphics that never pretended otherwise. That positioning has just been flipped.

According to Videocardz, Acer has refreshed the RI110 with Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H processor, a discrete Arc B390 GPU, and an OCuLink port for external graphics.

The Before: A Modest Business SFF

The RI110 has long been the kind of machine IT departments order in bulk. Small footprint, low power draw, and just enough muscle for productivity suites. The previous generation leaned on integrated graphics, which kept the chassis cool and the bill of materials low.

For a fleet of office desktops, that was the whole point. What it couldn’t do was handle anything visual. No light gaming, no local AI inference, no GPU-accelerated rendering. If a department needed that, they bought a tower. Unlike consumer laptops that ship covered in decals — a question we’ve answered in our Do Laptops Have piece — the RI110 always kept a clean, boring business look.

The Catalyst: A Refresh That Changes the Brief

The new configuration changes the math. Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H is a recent Arrow Lake mobile chip, and pairing it with Arc B390 discrete graphics gives the RI110 genuine compute headroom. The OCuLink port is the sleeper feature — it lets users bolt on an external GPU enclosure later, which is rare at this Do Laptop Chargers — why do these adapters look the way they do?

The After: Two Machines in One

The refreshed Acer Veriton RI110 now straddles two worlds. In the office it still does the quiet desktop thing, but it also handles AI workloads, light creative work, and even casual gaming without breaking a sweat. That’s a meaningful shift for a chassis that was previously single-purpose.

The trade-off is real, though.

Side-by-Side: Before vs After

What’s Next

The bigger question is whether this signals a wider push. Acer has been quietly upgrading its business line with AI-ready silicon, and the Acer Veriton RI110’s OCuLink support suggests external GPU setups could become a standard option across the Veriton family. Pricing and availability in India are yet to be confirmed, but expect regional variants to land in the coming months.

The same AI momentum is spreading beyond PCs — brands like Xiaomi are pushing intelligence into vehicles with the Xiaomi Auto Launches SkyNomad lineup, and even security firms like CP PLUS are chasing the wave with their CP PLUS Expands Bigg campaign. Hardware is getting smarter everywhere at once. If you need a cheap, boring office box, the old RI110 still makes sense. If you want AI headroom and eGPU flexibility in a small chassis, the new one is the pick.

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