Acer Laptops are not the most popular – according to the sales of the company consistently acts in the role of catch-up. However, at the Acer, as in others, there is quite a successful model, are worth paying attention to. Today we look at one of them. New laptop Acer Swift 3 review – a medium format ultrabook with the good price-quality ratio. Let’s see what exactly it is.
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DESIGN: LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW
The laptop Acer Swift 3 review has got to the editor in the form of a test sample, but we can say that the buyer will meet new ascetic Packaging equipment: simple box, the laptop itself, power adapter and documentation. No cases and other pleasant additions can be expected.
The laptop Acer Swift 3 review looks simple but quite nice. Concisely. In case there is no fanciful inscriptions or luminous elements, the surfaces are smooth and without any patterns.
The working area is framed similarly – most painted in body color, and the keyboard and display hinge left black. Confused unless golden (probably brass) color of the test laptop, but sales in the first meet silver version.
This looks better and with a certain degree of probability cause the association with Apple notebooks. However, if we look closely, we can say that this is a reasonable variation of the MacBook Air with a larger screen and lower price.
Note the metal case (cover, screen frame, bottom, and region), small thickness – 18 mm at its thickest point, the scope of the display medium width and weight of 1.5 kg. For the 14-inch models, performance is not a record, but close to the best representatives of the class.
In contrast to the high-end Ultrabook, body thickness Swift 3 allowed to maintain normal range of connectors: HDMI, USB 3.0 with the ability to charge other devices off, USB 3.1 Type-C, SD – card reader, combo mini-jack for headphones or headsets, USB 2.0 and a Kensington lock slot.
In terms of build quality, precision fitting parts, the rigidity to the notebook casing comments there. Display Hinge runs quite freely, without any problems lid open with one hand and pulls the base housing. It is well fixed in any position and is deflected by 180 degrees.
KEYBOARD AND TOUCHPAD: LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW
The laptop Acer Swift 3 review uses a standard full-size keyboard without the numeric keypad. There is light without the possibility of adjusting its brightness.
Block arrows pressed down a little bit, but it is quite easy to use, the keys Page Up, Page Down, Home and End are located on the right and the power button is inscribed into the main unit. As with any Windows laptop, if you accidentally touch it by pressing Delete, the key without any problems will be disabled in the system power settings.
The keyboard is quite easy to use and does not require getting used to – I was able to start touch-typing is used. The keys have a medium speed, relatively quiet and informative press. The substrate is quite rigid and not “walking” during fast typing.
The touchpad is large and pleasant to use, provides good positioning accuracy and speed of the scroll out of the box, it supports multitouch gestures.
SCREEN: LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW
In the test laptop Acer Swift 3 review and the most configurations available in the market, used a 14-inch IPS matrix resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels with a matte finish (Innolux N140HCA-EAB).
The brightness varies from 15 to 185 cd / m², contrast ratio measured – 1: 1075. The range is enough for comfortable work in the room under all lighting conditions, problems can occur except on the street in the summer. Sensor automatic brightness control is not.
Like most displays in laptops, the screen color reproduction Acer Swift 3 is not ideal in spite of the technology used. The biggest point – a relatively narrow color gamut which is why the colors are not as bright as they could be. However, this feature will be important unless you edit photos, as in most conventional color problems look much better than similar TN-matrices and subjective point of view they are completely saturated.
Remarks to the viewing angles are not present. The metal cover provides protection for the normal matrix of the punching bag and other life troubles.
PLATFORM, SOUND, HEAT AND NOISE: LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW
Immediately it should be noted that the laptops seem cheap enough for your equipment, which is partly achieved by the absence of pre-Windows. The second reason for such a price – the simplicity of design.
To gain access to the “internal” simply unscrew some Phillips screws securing the bottom of the housing. In the case of necessity to purge the cooling system, replace the thermal paste is easy enough. At the same time, it is clear that RAM soldered on the board and can only replace the drive M.2 format. Additional expansion slots for installing drives or memory bars there. Such deficiencies are characterized by many modern ultrabooks, so the choice of configuration will have to be taken seriously.
At Acer Swift 3 configurations with no discrete graphics – this ultrabook for work and rest, solving common tasks that do not require very productive “iron”. Even at the minimum configurations will be comfortable to surf, work with documents, watch videos, chat messengers, edit photos. In problems that require high computing power, will have to be satisfied with the performance of energy-efficient chips and integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics 520. For Internet and video will add perhaps, card games with simple graphics and exhibit minimal graphics settings in the current projects.
Of the additional features of the model can be noted fingerprint scanner, similar to those installed in modern smartphones – for it does not need to spend, and just put your finger. By the standards of laptops, it works fine (works in most cases, but not always the first time and is not as fast as we would like). There are also two microphones and HD resolution webcam (not the best). As Wi-Fi module is used quite fast Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174, supports connection speeds of up to 867 Mbit / s (802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, 2.4 + 5 GHz, MU-MIMO 2 × 2) and Bluetooth 4.2.
Built-in speakers provide the average stock volume is enough for home video viewing. The sound quality is far from ideal so that music lovers will be disappointed. When using good headphones laptop is also not surprising – in this case, the model is similar to the set of competitors.
The cooling system is working properly. Most of the time fans run at minimum speed, you can hear in a quiet room, but in the office, they are actually invisible and blend in with the usual noise. Under load, the CPU heats up to 65 degrees, no throttling, the noise level is acceptable. In general, if a manufacturer has established one large fan instead of two small ones, it would have been even better.
WORKING HOURS: LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW
Fixed battery has a capacity of 48.9 Wh – pretty standard figure for modern ultrabooks. The manufacturer claims that the model will work up to 12 hours. In actual use, get 12 hours of work will be difficult, but a test on a single charge the laptop without any problems working the standard 8 hour day with a small margin (Chrome, Skype, working with documents, photos Minimal processing, watching videos).
Therefore, if the laptop Acer Swift 3 review will be used as a mobile work tool, the charger can be left at home without fear. Complete power supply 45 W is small enough so that the traveling he does not take up much space in your bag.
PROS OF LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW: THE USE OF THE INTEL CHIPS SKYLAKE, DDR4 MEMORY AND SSD (ALL CONFIGURATIONS); MATTE IPS DISPLAY; THIN AND LIGHT METAL CHASSIS; WORKING HOURS; COMFORTABLE KEYBOARD AND TOUCHPAD; FINGERPRINT READER AND USB 3.1 TYPE-C; PRICE
CONS OF LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW: RAM SOLDERED ON THE BOARD; IT SUPPLIED WITHOUT PREINSTALLED WINDOWS; SOUND AND WEBCAM
CONCLUSION: LAPTOP ACER SWIFT 3 REVIEW
The laptop Acer Swift 3 review – thin and light ultrabook with a matt 14 inch Full HD IPS screen. The model offers modern equipment, sufficient for comfortable solving common tasks, metal casing, sleek design, a good time, and most importantly – the different competitive cost. To achieve this it has turned abandoning the pre-installed Windows and selecting a relatively simple housing structure. However, if the characteristics of the suit and you will be able to install Windows, the following features should not be confused. In fact, before us an option that can be described as “cheap and cheerful” and it does not make the device less, but rather the contrary. Therefore, we are pleased to note it in our award “Best Buy.”
Source: Ultrabookreview
Title: Review Acer Swift 3: nothing more
Updated: 2017-01-20
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