The Swift 3 is a portable, speedy laptop with a lovely FHD display. Can you do any better at this price?
Lightweight; Reasonably priced; Nice; colour-accurate FHD display
Short battery life; Distracting humming noise
The Swift 3 is a portable, speedy laptop with a lovely FHD display. Can you do any better at this price?
Lightweight; Reasonably priced; Nice; colour-accurate FHD display
Short battery life; Distracting humming noise
A squarish 3:2 aspect ratio display helps the affordable, fully loaded Acer Swift 3 stand out from the ultraportable crowd.
Bright and colorful 3:2 aspect ratio display; Great battery life; HDMI and Thunderbolt 3 ports
Tepid CPU performance; No SD or microSD card slot
The Acer Swift 3 SF314-57 is ultra-light and packed with ports, but you'll have to put up with a laptop that's a bit of a plain Jane
The Swift 3 FS314-57 is one of the most competitively priced Intel Ice Lake ultraportables of the moment, as well as one of the most compact and lightweight 14-inch options in the $600-$1000 budget.
compact; ultra-lighweight and ergonomic design; sturdy build quality; matte IPS screen and good IO; solid performance accross the board; within the platform's capabilities; very quiet fan and excellent thermals; competitively priced
still some sharp edges and bits around the back; dim and washed-out IPS panel; stay away from the non-backlit keyboard option; poor speakers; less efficient than the previous Whiskey Lake variant
A 2.68-pound laptop with Ice Lake for a mid-tier price
Weighing less than three pounds and boasting a 10th-gen Intel Ice Lake CPU, the Acer Swift 3 packs in plenty of functionality and power given its $700...
Slim and light; Cool; efficient performance; Thunderbolt 3 port
Dim display; Middling battery life
The Acer Swift 3 is like a plate of food that looks better than it actually tastes. It's slim, all-metal build and glass-front screen make a great first impression, but flaws become apparent after (figuratively) biting into it.
The Acer Swift 3 is a budget laptop with an impressive all-metal design, but it skimps on some features you might find important.
The Acer Swift 3 is a stylish and affordable laptop; Unlike a lot of current laptops, it has lots of ports and connections.
The shallow keyboard isn’t great for typing; The display is dim and the speakers are weak; Battery life is short.
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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