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 can assist you get issues executed regardless of the place you’re.
It’s not good. Battery life could possibly be higher, and there are another choices for particular use circumstances, however for the worth—$1,400 as examined—you would be hard-pressed to beat this bundle as an all-around nice Windows laptop.
Swift Names
Laptop makers appear to have lastly provide you with a standard naming conference, centered across the mannequin identify paired with not a random quantity, however the display measurement of the laptop computer. Revolutionary. Genius. Wait till you inform your grandkids it took the business three a long time to provide you with that. Thanks to Dell and Apple for main the best way. 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 12 months 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 an identical to final 12 months’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 recommend you make a behavior of, however it’s one thing I do to each laptop computer I check. The good 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 choose to 16:9. That little additional 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 huge and 0.59 inches thick.
Power at a Price
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The greatest 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 are eager about video modifying or mild gaming, the Swift X, with its devoted Nvidia GPU, is the best way to go. But in my testing, the Swift 14 was a lot quick in on a regular basis use, together with net searching with a disturbing number of tabs open, utilizing chat apps, videoconferencing, and photograph modifying utilizing Darktable—which I ran through Windows Subsystem for Linux, and it was nonetheless speedy.
