Swift 7

A slender laptop certainly turns heads—but with an MSRP of $1,100, the Swift 7’s constrained performance and lack of Thunderbolt 3 make HP’s Spectre 13.3 (which is almost equally thin) seem like a better deal.

-- As reviewed by PCWorld
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MSRP: $1,197.98

Product details

  • 7th Generation Intel Core i7-7Y75 Processor (Up to 3.6GHz)
  • 14" Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS Widescreen Corning Gorilla Glass Touchscreen
  • 8GB LPDDR3 Onboard Memory & 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD
  • Up to 10 Hours Battery Life
  • Built-in 4G LTE connectivity | Ultra-Thin 8.98mm |Bio-Protection Fingerprint Solution | Back-lit Keyboard

PROS

+ Quiet at all times
+ Handles basic tasks with ease
+ Thin frame is a unique look

CONS

- Lacks Thunderbolt 3
- Ability to handle more intensive tasks is constrained
- It's thin...but it's also large

Expert reviews and ratings

By PCWorld on November 16, 2016
A slender laptop certainly turns heads—but with an MSRP of $1,100, the Swift 7’s constrained performance and lack of Thunderbolt 3 make HP’s Spectre 13.3 (which is almost equally thin) seem like a better deal.
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By TechRadar on January 18, 2018
The Acer Swift 7 is one of the most gorgeous laptops of the year already, but it cuts a few too many corners as a more affordable foil to the 12-inch MacBook.
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By TechRadar on July 03, 2019
Between a touchpad that doesn’t click and its aging, fanless processor, the Acer Swift 7 is an absolutely gorgeous Ultrabook – the ‘world’s thinnest,’ in fact – that we simply can’t recommend in a sea of laptops that are far more powerful and not much thicker for the same price or less.
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