Acer plans three new Swift laptops for CES 2024, aligned round Intel’s Core Ultra (Meteor Lake): two Swift Go laptops providing high quality shows and enhancements in reminiscence and storage, plus a Swift X that pushes larger into Intel’s H-series Core Ultra processors alongside an Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU for content material creation and lightweight gaming.

Acer’s laptop computer lineup is well-defined: the Travelmate line of business laptops, the famously budget Aspire brand, and the premium Swift lineup of client laptops with an expert bent. Of these, Acer goals the Swift Edge at AMD’s Ryzen lineup, reserving the Swift Go and Swift X at Intel’s Core chips, with its Predator lineup targeted on avid gamers. New for the Swift 2024 lineup are 14- and 16-inch Swift Go fashions (the SFG14-73 and SFG16-72), plus the 14-inch Swift X (SFX14-72G).

Both of the brand new Swift Gos are reasonably priced, each transport in March. The Swift Go 14 will begin at $749.99, whereas the Swift Go 16 shall be priced at a surprisingly low $799.99, given the added display actual property. The Swift X 14 will ship in February for $1,399.99. They’re all Intel Evo Edition-class units, indicating that they’ve acquired particular testing and co-engineering with Intel.

What’s new? Besides the part upgrades, the three new Swifts can now be opened to 180 levels and have webcam shutters. Both of Acer’s new Swift Go traces will boast the brand new Copilot key, Microsoft’s addition to induce customers to make use of Microsoft’s cloud-based AI assistant. Intel’s Core Ultra / Meteor Lake chips function an on-chip NPU, to which Acer is adopting a go-slow method: It shall be including AI-specific apps all year long. However, the brand new Swift laptops are utilizing Temporal Noise Reduction and what Acer calls PurifiedView and PurifiedVoice 2.0 for AI-filtered audio and video, with a three-mic array.

Swift Go 16

Otherwise, the enhancements are practical: The Swift Go 16 features a new OLED choice, particularly a relatively attractive 3200×2000 16-inch show that gives 120Hz refresh charges, too.

OLED shows are typically geared toward content material consumption, with pure blacks. In this case, the show is DisplayHDR True Black 500 rated, with a DCI-P3 colour gamut ranking of 100%. Acer additionally offers 2560×1600 (60Hz) and 1920×1200 (60Hz) IPS panel choices for many who don’t need to purchase a premium show.

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Acer can be providing 32GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence alongside as much as 2TB of PCIe Gen 4 SSD storage, a welcome new tier in each reminiscence and SSD storage. Inside is both a 65W or a 50W battery, relying on the configuration, alongside Intel’s Killer Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 choices. (That will equate to 12.5 hours of battery life for the Swift Go 14, and 10.5 hours for the Swift Go 16.) Acer’s Swift Go 16 does provide a 1440p webcam, although if it’s like others in its class it’ll primarily be a 1080p webcam, with some further decision reserved for a digital zoom functionality.

Both the Swift Go 16 and 14 provide a number of processor choices: the Core Ultra 9 185H, the Ultra 7 155H and 155U, and the Ultra 5 125H and 125U. The “H” class chips provide extra efficiency than the lower-powered U choices; for extra particulars, you may evaluation our Core Ultra/Meteor Lake launch article.

The Swift Go 16 measures 14.02 x 9.62 x 0.59 inches, and three.53 kilos.

Swift Go 14

The smaller show robs the Swift Go 14 of among the pixels of its bigger cousin, however there’s nonetheless an OLED choice. Swift Go 14 patrons will be capable of select between a 2880×1800 show at a slower 90Hz refresh fee, although the show can be DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 licensed. IPS choices at 2880×1880 (120Hz), 2240×1400 (60Hz), and 1920×1200 (60Hz) are additionally accessible.

Acer is providing Swift Go 14 reminiscence configurations of as much as 32GB of LPDDR5X, plus as much as 2GB of PCIe Gen 4 SSD storage.

One of the options of the Swift Go 14 are the media controls built-in into the touchpad, which lets you play, pause, fast-forward, and alter the amount on the contact of a…touchpad.

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Otherwise, the specs are the identical: 65W/50W battery choices, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 choices, in addition to a 1440p webcam. Acer didn’t launch the port configuration for both of the Swift Go fashions.

The Swift Go 14 measures 12.32 x 8.58 x 0.59 inches, and a pair of.76 kilos.

Swift X 14

Acer solely affords one model of the Swift X, the 14-inch mannequin. However, Acer squeezed a couple of extra pixels into the chassis, versus the “14-inch” Swift Go 14; the Swift X’s display choices embrace a 14.5-inch 2880×1880 120Hz OLED show plus a 2560×1600 120Hz various, each with Calman colour verification, 100% DCI-P3 colour vary, and 500 nits of brightness. Only two processor selections are provided, nevertheless: the Core Ultra 7 155H and the Core Ultra 5 125H processor.

Here, Acer made different attention-grabbing concessions: Instead of providing as much as 2TB of storage, there’s only a single terabyte on provide, and the Wi-Fi 7 choices discovered within the Swift Gos are absent, too, in favor of Wi-Fi 6E. However, you’ll nonetheless be capable of purchase a Swift X with as much as 32GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence. Acer additionally says that the Swift X 14 features a pair of USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4. An HDMI 2.1 port and a microSD reader slot are additionally included.

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What makes the Swift X the Swift X, although, is the addition of the GPU, particularly a GeForce RTX 4070, 4060, or 4050, plus the cheaper various of the older 3050 for many who need to save much more. (Last yr, Acer and others have been providing an RTX 20-series GPU as an alternative as a less expensive choice.)

All that horsepower comes with an even bigger battery: 76W, which helps push the burden to three.42 kilos. We had a restricted little bit of time to carry and play with the Swift X, however it didn’t really feel overwhelmingly heavy in any respect, with a pleasant mixture of display measurement and lightweight weight. The Swift X measures 12.7 x 8.98 x 0.7 inches.