SeekerAcer Swift 3
The 14-inch Acer Swift 3 is a well-rounded ultraportable laptop at a moderate price, with solid port selection and strong battery life that offset a merely average screen.
-- As reviewed by PCMag
Product details
- Aspect Ratio:16:9
- AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Octa-Core Mobile Processor (Up to 4.1 GHz) with Radeon Graphics; 8GB LPDDR4 Memory; 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
- 14" Full HD Widescreen IPS LED-backlit display (1920 x 1080 resolution; 16:9 aspect ratio)
- Intel wireless Wi-Fi 6 AX200 802.11ax; HD webcam (1280 x 720); Backlit keyboard; Fingerprint reader
- 1 - USB Type-C port USB 3. 2 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps) DisplayPort over USB Type-C and USB Charging, 1- USB 3. 2 Gen 1 port (featuring power-off charging), 1 - USB 2. 0 port and 1 - HDMI port
- Just 0.63" thin and 2.65 pounds and up to 11.5 hours of battery life
PROS
+ Classy aluminum design.
+ Windows Hello fingerprint reader.
+ Perky performance from Core i5 CPU and PCIe SSD.
+ Good battery life.
CONS
- Limited screen brightness.
- Shallow keyboard with small, crowded cursor control keys.
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Expert reviews and ratings
By PCMag on August 30, 2017
The 14-inch Acer Swift 3 is a well-rounded ultraportable laptop at a moderate price, with solid port selection and strong battery life that offset a merely average screen.
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By UltrabookReview on October 25, 2021
The Acer Swift 3 is a budget ultrabook and at the same time a surprisingly good device for the price. It gets the looks, the build quality, the typing experience, the performance, and long battery life, for a fraction of what many other ultraportables are selling for. It's not without flaws though, such as a dim screen and fuzzy speakers. Make sure to check our full coverage of the more recent Swift 3 lineup as well, I've linked it in the first part of the article.
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By TechAdvisor on February 23, 2017
The Acer Swift 3 is a near-perfect laptop for those who want an ultraportable, but don’t want to fork out £1000+. Build quality is great, battery life very good, and performance a match for much more expensive laptops. There are just two areas where the low price shows. First, it’s a little thicker and heavier than some ultrabooks. It looks good enough, but limited maximum brightness and fairly poor colour reproduction limits its usefulness in certain situations.
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