Acer swift 5, 14" full hd touch, 8th gen intel core i5
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Quick verdict
This máy tính may not wow on first impression because its magnesium body plates and plastic touchpad don't treat your fingers as a laptop macbook might. But the Acer has chất lượng where it matters, fitting good performance, a solid keyboard, and good screen into a circa-1kg laptop.Read full verdict
Against Plastic touchpad is far from best-in-class Doesn't feel as nice as the slightly heavier alternatives
(kemhamysophie.com) - The most expensive laptops are the ones you"re meant lớn really get excited about, right? Acer"s Swift line is a bit different.The mid-range Swift 5 is often the sweet spot for both value & design. And that"s no different for 2021.
It is a powerful, extremely light máy tính xách tay that doesn"t feel lượt thích a flat-out lightweight. Và at under a grand và a couple of hundred cheaper than a similarly specced Dell XPS 13 it"s got price appeal too.
But the Swift 5 isn"t perfect. It"s not the most stylish máy tính xách tay in this class & it has a plastic trackpad, which is a bit of a cheap move. But if low weight for real work when on the go is what you are after, then the Swift 5 is a sound buy.
Design
Dimensions: 15.9 x 318.9 x 206.9mm / Weight: 1.04kgMagnesium-aluminium and magnesium-lithium body panelsAcer is one of the main proponents of ultra low-weight laptops. The Swift 5 weighs just a fraction over a kilo, around 300g less than the average weight for a portable 13-inch laptop.
You get no prizes for guessing how Acer managed it. The Swift 5 has a magnesium alloy shell, rather than the straight-up aluminium that hãng apple uses in its MacBooks, và Dell in the XPS 13.
Magnesium is lighter than aluminium, yet still dead strong. The keyboard doesn"t flex, the lid is nice và stiff. This is a low weight máy tính with no real practical downsides.
However, there are some things to consider if you care about the surface-level stuff.
The Acer Swift 5 doesn"t feel as swanky as some of the alternatives from Lenovo, asus and Dell. Some of this is down to the weight - when something is lighter than you"d expect it can initially seem flimsy. Even if it isn"t. The magnesium alloys used here are also significantly less metallic-feeling than aluminium.
The Acer Swift 5 also has that plastic touchpad, the one part that can be put down lớn a budget cut rather than a weight-saver.
This isn"t, in our opinion, the best-looking máy tính for under a grand either. It"s tasteful enough, though, with a two-tone blue & gold colour scheme, minimal display border, & no unnecessarily showy parts. But it doesn"t quite have the elegance of a Dell XPS 13 or Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim. Feel không tính phí to disagree if your eyes see differently.
Screen
IPS LCD touchscreen panel, 1920 x 1080 resolution, 407 nit brightness99.2% sRGB, 72.5% Adobe RGB, 77.7% DCI P3 colourThe Acer Swift 5 has a very good screen, but not one as advanced as some of the laptops you might pay even more for, lượt thích the HP Spectre x360.
Thankfully, the one "cut" is the bit the fewest people are likely to lớn notice at first glance. The Swift 5 has nice colour, but not ultra-wide gamut colour.
That means the máy tính can"t render those ultra-vivid tones. But unless you vì chưng pro imaging work, you don"t need khổng lồ worry about it too much. The Acer Swift 5"s screen still looks great.
It also has enough brightness to khuyễn mãi giảm giá with outdoors use, just as much as plenty of laptops that cost a few hundred more.
Resolution is Full HD, so not 4K, but this is the norm for a laptop like this. Higher resolution upgrades almost always command a higher price - và often drain the battery life quicker too.
The Acer Swift 5 also has a touchscreen with a lovely Gorilla Glass đứng top layer to match. But this isn"t a máy tính that relies on cảm ứng as a big selling point. Its hinge only folds back the usual ~130 degrees, so it"s not an all-the-way-back hybrid. We"re perfectly happy with that though. IPads are good tablets. Hybrid laptops are not.
Keyboard and touchpad
Membrane keyboardWhite-LED backlightPlastic touchpadFor work purposes we could easily switch khổng lồ using the Acer Swift 5 all day, every day - because of its keyboard. Despite the laptop"s low weight, it has solid key depth & action, bolstered by its surprisingly stiff keyboard plate.
If there"s a thiết kế characteristic khổng lồ celebrate here, it"s that the 300g weight loss (compared to lớn the 13-inch norm) has zero real effect on the keyboard quality.
The Acer Swift 5 key character is light & fast, not dark và ultra-deep. But it is quiet, and satisfies for long-form typing. It has a backlight too, but does not have customisable intensity. It"s on or off, that"s your lot.
The Swift 5 touchpad is not quite as appealing, however, because it has a plastic top surface rather than the textured glass we lượt thích to see at close lớn this price point.
What"s the difference? Plastic touchpads have higher friction surfaces, which you"ll feel when you change direction in swipes. The Swift 5"s touchpad ends up feeling slightly tackier than, for example, the Dell XPS 13"s.
Performance
Intel core i5-1135G7 CPU8GB RAM, 512GB SSDIntel xe cộ graphicsThe Acer Swift 5 is a mid-tier slim & light laptop. It doesn"t have the best CPU in its series or stacks of RAM, but does have the best intel configuration we could have asked for at this price.
You get an 11th Gen bộ vi xử lý core i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, và 512GB of SSD storage. With some other models you might only get 256GB storage. Và for the person who needs a general purpose laptop, not one that will actually be used for apps that really chomp down on 16GB RAM, that extra storage is really the most meaningful bump-up you can get.
Not sure whether to lớn get a vi xử lý core i5 or i7 laptop? They both have four cores, eight threads. The bộ vi xử lý core i7 has a smidgen more chip core power và a little more GPU power. But the change is not as big as it is in the world of desktop PC CPUs.
The crucial part for us here is the intel Evo GPU, seen in chip core i5 and Core i7 laptops. This is a big part of Intel"s 11th Generation class, và makes laptops lượt thích the Acer Swift 5 much better as roving entertainment stations.
Intel Evo lets you max out Skyrim to Ultra settings, the works selected. You can play The Witcher 3 at 1080p if you fiddle with the visual effect settings. GTA V runs well too.
Do light work on the Acer Swift 5 và it"s virtually silent. Even when gaming for a short while it doesn"t make much noise. However, it does become noticeable if you áp lực the CPU for a while, the familiar higher-pitch whirr of a laptop fan hâm mộ kicking in.
The actual decibel count isn"t high, but that higher tone can make it more distracting. We"re a little swayed by having come from the very quiet laptop lg gram 16, though. The Swift 5"s tín đồ noise shouldn"t put you off - unless you dream of a silent fan-free life, which you can get with a macbook Air.
Battery life
56Wh battery65W power nguồn adapterUp khổng lồ 15 hour life per chargeThe Acer Swift 5 has a 56Wh battery. It"s a solid capacity, but nothing out of the ordinary. However, we see some impressive results even with mid-size batteries, using the latest AMD and Intel CPUs.
This máy vi tính lasts 10 hours đôi mươi minutes when playing streamed video clip at the sort of display brightness you might use indoors, using its power saver mode.
Used for light work - just a word processor and a browser window or two - it lost just 14 per cent after two hours" use, suggesting it can last up to lớn 14 hours. It"s unusual to lớn see light use figures beat those of a simple video clip stream test. Assume you"ll get nearer khổng lồ 10 hours unless you keep the screen intensity relatively low và barely vị anything lớn make the CPU quiver.
This is good real-world stamina, particularly for a circa-1kg laptop. However, it"s a way off some of the figures we"ve seen from AMD Ryzen laptops recently, which seem khổng lồ routinely outlast intel ones.
The Acer Swift 5 also uses a classic cylindrical power socket rather than USB-C, which is fast becoming the standard connector for laptops like this. However, this means the one Thunderbolt port is left miễn phí even if you leave the adapter plugged in.
Other ports are fairly traditional. The Swift 5 has two USB-A ports, the classic USB shape, a full-size HDMI, và a tai nghe jack.
Verdict
If you find four-figures a bit too high & 1.3kg a bit too heavy for a portable 13-inch laptop, then the Acer Swift 5 is a remedy lớn your concerns. It is an ultra-light máy vi tính that doesn"t feel hollow & has excellent keyboard rigidity. Working all day long on this thing feels great, and your shoulders will thank you if you carry your máy vi tính around every day.
The Acer Swift 5 probably wouldn"t be our đứng top choice if you barely care whether your máy tính xách tay weighs 1kg or 1.3kg, mind. Accept a little more weight and you can get an aluminium máy tính xách tay that feels a bit nicer, one with a superior glass touchpad too. Hotline us shallow if you like, but we value things like that.
Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim
squirrel_widget_3759498One of our favourite laptops in this class. Its AMD processor seems to result in dramatically better battery life than the Acer, while its aluminium shell feels more expensive. However, it is significantly heavier, which could and probably should put some people off.
Apple laptop apple macbook Air
squirrel_widget_3767293Now featuring a processor derived from phone tech và has no fan. So you"d assume it"s lighter than the Swift 5 right? Nope. It"s around 270g heavier because it"s made of aluminium. We prefer Acer"s keyboard for long-form typing too. However, the macbook wins for battery life, display resolution & raw performance.
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