Acer’s new Swift 14, which replaces the Swift 5, is the corporate’s MacBook Pro—which is to say, it is a well-built, svelte, slickly designed, all-metal transportable with sufficient energy that will help you get issues finished irrespective of the place you might be.
It isn’t good. Battery life could possibly be higher, and there are another choices for particular use circumstances, however for the value—$1,400 as examined—you would be hard-pressed to beat this bundle as an all-around nice Windows laptop.
Swift Names
Laptop computer makers appear to have lastly give you a standard naming conference, centered across the mannequin identify paired with not a random quantity, however the display dimension of the laptop computer. Revolutionary. Genius. Wait till you inform your grandkids it took the trade three many years to give you that. Due to Dell and Apple for main the way in which. Anyway, right here we’re, lastly. The Acer Swift 5 is gone. The Acer Swift 14 is right here (as is the Swift Go, which replaces the Swift 3).
This yr the Swift lineup options the Swift Go, which affords an OLED display, the Swift X, which affords a devoted GPU, and the plain Swift, which has a considerably extra premium look, coming in inexperienced or blue with gold accents, however not the OLED display or a devoted GPU.
The Swift 14 appears almost equivalent to final yr’s Swift 5, with an aluminum and magnesium chassis that has barely any flex to it. Not even when carried it with one hand on the nook, which I do not counsel you make a behavior of, however it’s one thing I do to each laptop computer I take a look at. The nice ones, just like the Swift 14, do not flex. My ThinkPad T14 was jealous.
The unit I reviewed had an Intel Core i7 (13700H) processor with Iris Xe Graphics (shared reminiscence), 16 gigabytes of RAM, a 1-terabyte SSD, and a 14-inch IPS WQXGA touchscreen (2,560 x 1,600-pixel decision and a 60-Hz refresh rate). The display is 16:10, which I’ve come to a lot want to 16:9. That little further bit is simply … good. There’s additionally a less expensive Swift 14 mannequin that makes use of a 1,920 x 1,200-pixel decision display, which is barely higher than 1080p. All of that is wrapped in a 2.65-pound bundle that is simply 12 inches large and 0.59 inches thick.
Energy at a Worth
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The largest information within the Swift 14 is the brand new Thirteenth-generation Intel Core H-series processors, that are surprisingly snappy for Evo-certified processors. If you happen to’re fascinated with video enhancing or gentle gaming, the Swift X, with its devoted Nvidia GPU, is the way in which to go. However in my testing, the Swift 14 was a lot quick in on a regular basis use, together with net looking with a disturbing number of tabs open, utilizing chat apps, videoconferencing, and photograph enhancing utilizing Darktable—which I ran by way of Home windows Subsystem for Linux, and it was nonetheless speedy.
