Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Acer Swift series offers a premium line to their on the go laptops. At a somewhat higher end price point the question you have to ask yourself, is this really worth it? Out of the box you get everything you need to get you started and one thing i will note is that this is actually a very well put together piece. I believe there are 3 different colors and i ended up with the sage green. The laptop has a nice aluminum built chassis with low profile backlit keys ensuring you can still wrap up any work you left to do in the darkest of nights. The laptop is weight and can easily be stored in a traveling case without ever feeling weighed down. The laptop does come equipped with a webcam and privacy shutter. Webcam picture quality is average so don't expect 4k quality however audio and mic noise canceling are remarkable. I have a house full of teenagers so it is always loud when they come home and there are days where i have to work from home. During my Google Meets calls not once did any of the background noise bleed through and that speaks volumes considering one of my kids had there friends down and they were being loud enough to fill a stadium. Now moving on to what your most likely going to be using this for. The laptop has 2 usb-c thunderbolt ports, audio jack and one usb type A port but no hdmi port. This is actually quite disappointing as i use that port quite often when presenting at work so i guess i will be having to buy an additional adapter if i wish to use this at work. Performance was also average at best. The intel core 5 does allow for adequate day to day work such light video editing or Google Meets, however bottle necking starts to become very apparent when deciding to live stream presentations while having to move between different applications. The 8gb of dedicated ram, (and yes you heard right, there is no upgrading that memory) is just not capable of keeping up with high paced task. One thing i want to note the box literally says "Play hundreds of high-quality games" which i think is hilarious considering it can barely handle the most basic of conference call live stream meetings. Here's my take away and my opinion before buying this. Are you looking for something to take on the go that's lightweight that you can take on a plane or bus that won't weigh you down? Grab it. Do you only do the most basic of functions like emails, google meets (with no presenting)? Grab it. Do you want something that you can also watch and stream high quality movies? Grab it. This laptop has no problems for some reason watching movies from netflix, however Hulu live has its moments. For me this laptop is not my go to. I want to be able to grab my laptop, head to work and not have to worry, did i bring all my adapaters? Or will i have issues when presenting today?