Reviewers Liked
- Small and light
- Fast WiFi 6
- Fast integrated Intel graphics unit
- Fast SSD
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Meagre port selection
- CPU continues to be throttled
- Only average battery runtimes
Acer Swift 5 - 2020 (SF514-54T)
Would I recommend this laptop if it were four pounds and $1600? Nope. But with standout portability, good performance, and a $999 price tag, I think it hits a sweet spot.
-- As reviewed by The Verge
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The Acer Swift 5 is thin, light, and fast enough to play Fortnite, showing off Intel's 11th-gen Tiger Lake and Iris Xe graphics at their best. It gets stellar battery life too. The sound quality is the biggest disappointment.
By PCWorld onIf you need a laptop for working on the go, the Acer Swift 5 is a great choice because it weighs less than a kilogram and is slim, so it's very easy to carry around. When it came to opening programs, browsing the web and processor-heavy tasks such as...
By goodhousekeeping.co.uk onWith plenty in the positives column and hardly any negatives to talk about, the Acer Swift 5 is an appealing laptop choice for those after a good balance of price and performance.Reasons to buy+Quiet in operation+Excellent lightweight looks+Sharp,...
By T3 Magazine onThe latest Acer Swift 5 is an impressive 14-inch ultraportable that gives you ample power for a low $999.99. It's a solid option if you don't need workstation- or gaming-class performance or MIL-STD rugged...
By au.pcmag.com onWould I recommend this laptop if it were four pounds and $1600? Nope. But with standout portability, good performance, and a $999 price tag, I think it hits a sweet spot.
By The Verge ongood upgrade from AcerThe Acer Swift 5 SF514-54T, provided by AcerWe must complement Acer for accepting and responding to criticism. The manufacturer has made many changes in the right places - and the result is impressive.Most importantly, Acer has...
By NotebookCheck onThe Swift 5 is a laptop with a really nice balance of design, specs and price. It's particuarly thin and light making it great for those who are always on the go - you will barely notice it in your bag.Despite being so compact, you get an abnormally...
By techadvisor.co.uk onIt's a sacrifice I'm fine with, honestly. The Swift 5's been an excellent traveling companion the past few weeks, a machine I can toss in my bag and simply forget about for hours at a time. Then I pull it out and voila, a full-sized laptop. It's a small...
By Good Gear Guide onThe Acer Swift 5 is one of the first laptops in the market to come with a new 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor.These new Intel chips are more significant than usual because it is produced using a 10nm manufacturing process, an upgrade from the...
By TheStraitsTimes onWer viel unterwegs arbeitet, sollte einen Blick auf das höchst mobile Acer-Notebook werfen. Auch unter hoher Last ist das Gerät sehr leise. Zu bemängeln ist lediglich der fest verlötete und damit nicht austauschbare RAM.Das 1,5 Zentimeter flache Acer...
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