OUR VERDICT
Acer’s amazingly slender Swift 7 is a great laptop, regardless of whether corners were cut for the sake of mobility.
| Pros | Cons |
| Incomprehensibly slim and lightweight Rich structure Stunning 14-inch screen Shockingly long battery life | Baffling keyboard design For all intents and purposes unusable webcam Runs warm Less power speakers |
Acer knows maximum limits. Between the lightweight Swift 5 and the colossal Predator Helios 700, Acer has pushed the limits of PC plan toward each path. Presently it’s enhancing a PC we experienced passionate feelings for a year ago: the Swift 7. Much the same as its ancestors, the current year’s Swift 7 has a unimaginably slim case that you’ll need to show to the entirety of your companions. And keeping in mind that compactness is the feature of the Swift 7, this appealing laptop additionally offers a delightful 14-inch screen and unexpectedly long battery life.
True to form, bargains were made to fit everything into such a thin case, with the greatest frustrations being disappointing execution, less powered speakers and an unflattering webcam. In any case, the Swift 7 is probably the best laptop accessible for those searching for an easily movable machine.
Acer Swift 7 price and configuration options
Acer sells several distinct designs of the Swift 7.
Our $1,699 based black model is outfitted with an Intel Core i7-8500Y CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. A white variant expenses extra $50.
Business clients may need the $1,899 version of the Swift 7, which has similar specs yet redesigns you from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro. However, we suggest you do that without anyone’s help to set aside some cash.
Acer Swift 7 design
Makers used to gloat about how their workstations were like the size of a customary notebook. Acer is in an ideal situation contrasting its most recent leader and pieces of paper.
I could continue forever about the Swift 7’s extraordinary smoothness, yet this truly is an instance of “You need to see it to trust it.” all the better I can do is look at the thickness of the Swift 7 with other easily moveable workstations.
At 0.4 inches and 1.9 pounds, the Swift 7 is significantly more slender and lighter than the LG Gram 14 2-in-1 (0.7 inches, 2.5 pounds), the Asus ZenBook 14 UX433 (0.6 inches, 2.6 pounds) and the Apple MacBook Air (0.6 inches, 2.8 pounds). Mark, each 10th of an inch is monstrous when you get downward through this scale.
The Swift 7 and an advanced cell phone can be closely compared; both the Google’s new Pixel 4XL and the Apple iPhone 11 Pro are 0.3 inches thick. Add a thick case to those mobiles and they may even remain over the Swift 7.
The Swift 7 isn’t simply slim, it’s additionally supercompact. That is a result of the essentially bezel-less screen, which provides a screen-to-body proportion of 92% in the laptop.
Past these foolish measurements, the Swift 7 has a great style that doesn’t attempt to do excessively. The PC’s top has a straightforward gold chrome Acer logo that is reflected on the deck. Within the PC, you’ll discover a force button that serves as a unique mark sensor and a spring up webcam (more on that beneath). Swooping bends close to the ports give the Swift 7 the kind of style you partner with an extravagance vehicle.
Our dark shading variation has interesting tones that go from chocolate to record, contingent upon how the light hits it. It looks extraordinary, however in the event that fingerprints trouble you, go with the white edition.
Acer guarantees that the “micro-arc oxidation” finish to the cover of the laptop will stop scratches, which is a help in light of the fact that, in our experience, magnesium composite will in general show a bigger number of imprints than aluminum.
Acer Swift 7 ports
On this super slim laptop you are allowed to get the Double Thunderbolt 3 ports that is on the right side of the Swift 7. At any rate you can get the laptop charged and another gadget at a time, which you were unable to do on Apple’s presently resigned 12-inch MacBook.
Acer Swift 7 display
I completely appreciated watching videos and perusing the web on the Swift 7‘s 14-inch, 1080p touch-screen show. Slim bezels brought my eyes into the wide board, which welcomed me with sensibly clear hues and respectable shine.
At the point when I viewed a trailer for Jumanji: The Next Level, Kevin Hart’s immersed red neckerchief contrasted the rich green wilderness. The screen caught enough detail for me to see singular strands of white hair in Danny DeVito’s facial hair and the awful teeth of an irate mandrill, whose face had characteristic blue and red tones. The main thing ruining my review experience was the workplace lights reflecting against the Swift 7’s glooming board.
The Swift 7’s touch screen as extremely responsive. Given my apprehensions with the PC’s touchpad (see beneath), I was glad to utilize the touch screen as my essential method for exploring the web.
As indicated by our colorimeter, the Swift 7’s presentation covers 105% of the sRGB shading array, making it less distinctive than the boards on the Gram 14 2-in-1 (128%), the ZenBook 14 UX433 (121%) and the exceptional PC normal (130%) however more vivid than the Apple MacBook Air’s (100%) screen.
On the other hand, the Swift 7’s showcase arrived at 293 nits, which makes it more splendid than the boards on the Gram 14 2-in-1 (253 nits) and the ZenBook 14 (217 nits) however dimmer than the MacBook Air’s presentation (343 nits). The normal premium PC (346 nits) has a more splendid presentation than these gadgets.
Acer Swift 7 performance
To suit such a dainty structure, Acer outfitted the Swift 7 with a low-power Y-arrangement CPU. In particular, the Intel Core i7-8500Y.
Given its low-power chip, I anticipated that the Swift 7 should back off during my true testing, yet the laptop chugged along without as much as a whine. I saw some short skipping as movements stacked on an enormous site page, yet else, I had no issues perusing the web, even with 15 Google Chrome opened tabs and four ongoing video streams of 1080p at the back tabs. All things considered, don’t anticipate that the Swift 7 should give you a similar presentation as bigger laptops pressing U-arrangement or H-arrangement processors.
The Swift 7 scored a 6,374 on the Geekbench 4.3 generally execution test, which is not exactly 50% of what the Gram 14 2-in-1 (15,943, Core i7-8565U) and the normal premium PC (15,581) accomplished. The Swift 7 likewise got squashed by the ZenBook 14 (11,804, Core i7-8565U) and even fell behind the MacBook Air (7,880, Core i5-8210Y).
A whole Breaking Bad scene could be watched by you in the time it took the Swift 7 to transcode a 4K video into 1080p goals utilizing the Handbrake application. The 50 minutes and 22 seconds the PC took to finish the assignment is more than twice what the Gram 14 2-in-1 (21:17), the ZenBook 14 UX433 (24:46) and the excellent average laptop (22:25) required.
Luckily, the Swift 7 bounced back on our hard-drive test, on account of its generally fast 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD. It took the Swift 7 only 12 seconds to copy 4.96GB of mixed media information for an exchange pace of 424.1 megabytes every second. That is snappier than the Gram 14 2-in-1 (391 MBps, 512GB M.2 SATA SSD) yet not exactly as pacey as the ZenBook 14 (508 MBps, 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD) or the topnotch laptop average (504.6 MBps). Hard drives of Apple similar to the one in the MacBook Air (1,011 MBps, 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD), are simply insane quick.
Acer Swift 7 audio
Regardless of whether you break out a couple of earphones or associate some PC speakers, help yourself out and don’t utilize the Swift 7‘s worked in speakers as your essential methods for tuning in to music. The peaceful and sharp base terminating speakers of the laptop bring out the radio framework in a maturing New York City metro train.
The empty, far off vocals and pallid bass in Kanye West’s “Dull Fantasy” helped me to remember the old Apple earbuds my high school self smothered tuning in to apprehension y, popular punk music excessively uproarious. Indeed, I’m overstating a piece — these speakers will do after all other options have been exhausted — however genuinely, Swift 7 proprietors ought to likewise be earphone proprietors.
Acer Swift 7 keyboard and touchpad
I experienced some difficulty composing this audit on the illuminated keyboard of the Swift 7. I really wouldn’t fret about how the keys feel. Indeed, they’re incredibly shallow and I bottomed out routinely, yet the keys are very much dispersed, sensibly clicky and have that flawless discernible “snap.”
My concern related to the keypad is its capricious format. My fingers continuously squeezed the scaled down erase key rather than the delete key by it. On the off chance that solitary those keys had been switched, at that point I wouldn’t experience had as a lot of difficulty. Additionally, the alternate way keys don’t get their own column, so I needed to hold the Fn key and the up bolt to build volume and use Fn+E to stretch out my presentation to a screen. To top it all off, there is no quiet easy route.
I composed at 126 wpm with an accuracy rate of 98% on the 10fastfingers.com composing test. Those are probably the best scores I’ve at any point accomplished and a major improvement over my 119-wpm at an average accuracy of 95%.
The old Swift 7 was a bad dream to utilize on the grounds that its touchpad didn’t have catches or haptic input. Presently with left-and right-click fastens, the new 5.5 x 2-inch touchpad is without a doubt an improvement over the first edition.
Be that as it may, there are still issues. The touchpad is anything but difficult to brush with your palm as a result of how gracelessly long the surface is. That wouldn’t be an issue with an appropriate palm-dismissal include yet there is nothing of the sort on the Swift 7; my palms unintentionally pushed my cursor over the screen enough to make me wish Frisbee-hurl the Swift 7 out of the window.
More: How to Get the Full Layout in Windows 10’s Touch KeyboardHo
The surface additionally once in a while enlisted a squeeze to-zoom motion rather than a two-finger scroll when I had a go at utilizing Windows 10 touchpad signals.
Acer Swift 7 graphics
You can disregard playing the best PC games on the Swift 7. The coordinated Intel UHD 615 illustrations matched with Intel’s Y-arrangement chips can’t do much past play internet games and burden web activities or recordings.
The Swift 7 demonstrated as much by playing the dashing game Dirt 3 at a measly 18 edges for every second, well underneath our 30-fps playability limit and a long ways behind what the Gram 14 2-in-1 (51 fps), the ZenBook 14 UX433 (45 fps) and the normal premium PC (61 fps) indented.
The Swift 7 handled a 49,402 on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Test, which is around 50% the Gram 14 2-in-1 (87,220), the ZenBook 14 (87,446) and the excellent laptop average (90,663) scored.
Acer Swift 7 battery life
I’m truly intrigued by the battery life of the Swift 7. Not excessively the runtime of the laptop on our battery test (which includes constant web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits) of 8 hours and 56 minutes breaks all other records; I never even imagined that such a slim gadget could keep going a whole day on a single charge.
The Swift 7 even outlived the ZenBook 14 (8:37), the MacBook Air (8:51) and the top notch laptop average (8:15), if just by a couple of minutes. All things considered, other easy movable workstations, similar to the Gram 14 2-in-1 (11:28), have more continuance.
Acer Swift 7 webcam
Where do I at any point start? I sincerely wish Acer had deserted the webcam inside and out, if just to spare a couple of bucks. Rather, Acer decided to insert the webcam into the deck, above and on the left half of the console. Thus, the webcam caught my fingers as I composed, and my chest with the movement of my hands away.
To get the camera to catch your face, either you are needed to lift the laptop’s deck so it syncs at your eye level or hunch your back like Quasimodo. It’s a genuine disgrace, as a result of all the coordinated webcams I’ve tried, the Swift 7’s 720p focal point has probably the best picture quality; my face had normal hues in a selfie I snapped, and there was a lot of detail without all the clamor I’m accustomed to seeing.
On the off chance that you never utilize a webcam, at that point the webcam’s area shouldn’t fluster you. On the off chance that you do, we firmly prescribe putting resources into one of our preferred outer webcams. The main issue is that huge numbers of those choices mount to a PC’s top, and there is basically no bezel space over the Swift 7’s screen.
Acer Swift 7 heat
The Swift 7‘s low-fueled Y-arrangement CPU should take into consideration a dainty, fanless structure, however Intel didn’t assume anybody would go this flimsy.
We played a 15-minute, 1080p YouTube video to perceive how well the Swift 7 kept its cool. While the touchpad warmed to just 85 degrees Fahrenheit and the base board crested at 98 degrees, the highest point of the deck (simply over the console) arrived at a burning 108 degrees.
The warmth was recognizable during ordinary use. I reflexively grabbed my fingers from the deck of the PC on various events in view of how hot the Swift 7 got while I perused the web or spilled recordings.
Acer Swift 7 software and warranty
I wish Acer did exclude such a significant number of preinstalled applications onto its workstations. Heaped on the standard Windows 10 Home suspects are the greater part twelve applications from Acer and outsider accomplices.
Of those, you are needed to keep the Care Center. From the primary center point interface of this application, you can see data about your framework, look for firmware refreshes, do a test on your laptop’s parts and make recuperation reinforcements. Acer’s different applications just direct you to authoritative reports and a client manual.
Don’t hesitate to erase the Collections of Acer S and App Explorer, the two of which give you Windows Store application suggestions. Content makers should keep PhotoDirector and PowerDirect for when they have to alter photographs and video recordings.
Additionally introduced a bunch of Windows 10 Home applications, including Bubble Witch 3 Saga on the Swift 7, Candy Crush Friends, Amazon, Booking, eBay, Evernote and Hearts Deluxe, to give some examples in a rundown that ought to be a lot shorter on a top notch laptop.
Acer incorporates a one-year restricted guarantee with the Swift 7. Perceive how Acer fared in our Best and Worst Brands and Tech Support Showdown extraordinary reports.
Bottom Line
The Swift 7 isn’t a trick; it’s a strong journal with a stunning presentation, a top notch plan and shockingly long battery life. Be that as it may, don’t let me delude you, the razor-meager frame is completely the explanation you should purchase the Swift 7 instead of another easy movable laptop.
Remove its slenderness, and the Swift 7 loses a lot of its allure. That is on the grounds that Acer needed to make a few trade offs to achieve the plan accomplishment, including pressing the Swift 7 with an underpowered processor, a cumbersome console and touchpad, and a for all intents and purposes unusable webcam. Therefore, the Swift 7 falls behind our preferred easy movable laptops, similar to the Dell XPS 13 or Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon. In any case, none of those is almost as compact.
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