![]() There are multiple versions of the Swift 1 available, with the older model with a lower-spec chassis currently the one that’s most widely sold. In essence, it’s the shell of a premium laptop but with the heart of an entry-level model, with a low price to match. This means it lacks some of the performance and extra features of its more expensive siblings but retains the essentials: an all-metal body and a Full HD screen. This all means that it will play casual and competitive games but only if they’re slow enough not to look terrible on the slow screen.The Acer Swift 1 is the cheapest laptop in the company’s Swift lineup. Not being a RTX GPU means it couldn’t run the Port Royal ray-tracing test at all because it’s incompatible with ray tracing. In the older FireStrike Extreme test it scored just 3818 (average 17fps). In 3DMark TimeSpy it scored a lowly 3266 which is an average of only 19fps. But, it’s one of those rare bits of silicon that’s regarded as a classic in some circles – the Nvidia GTX 1650. The Acer Swift X’s discreet GPU is *cough* old. That’s quite a testament to the Ryzen processor. It was a similar deal in the CineBench rendering tests, scoring 1316 in R in R23. These combined to score 5199 in PCMark 10 which is behind just about everything we’ve tested except the ultraportable, ultra-low-powered Asus ExpertBook and, weirdly, both the Swift X’s older siblings, the last-generation (Intel sporting) Acer Predator Helios 300 and even the Acer Nitro 5. The hexa-core, 12-thread, 2.1-4GHz AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 5500U processor is flanked by 8GB of RAM and a 512GB NVMe hard drive. The speakers sound like you’d expect laptop speakers to sound like, in that you can hear stuff but there’s practically no bass (or body) whatsoever. Colour and monochromatic gradients can display banding but not to a terrible extent. The IPS panel gets reasonably bright and supports 100 per cent of the sRGB colour gamut. However, if you’re into slower games that don’t need the refresh rate, it can still do a job. This is a shame for casual and competitive shoot’em up gamers who wanted to make use of the discreet graphics to frag things on the move. Not surprisingly fast moving objects quickly become a blurry mess. The Acer Swift X’s Full HD screen only has a 60Hz refresh rate and a 25ms response time. It also uses the keyboard as an air intake. ![]() The keyboard lights up with white LEDs when you touch it. There’s an HD webcam and a fingerprint reader but no Windows Hello compatibility. Our only niggle is the half-height arrow keys that are paired with the Pg Up and Down keys and we were constantly pressing one, the other or both by mistake. The backlit, Scrabble-tile keyboard is comfortable to type upon for long periods. It feels plasticy but stiff and robust while the metallic lid ads rigidity to the point where you can twist the screen and it barely moves. The brushed metallic finish has been around for two decades yet still looks relatively fresh in the market. Design and HandlingĪnyone who has seen a typical Acer laptop in the past two decades will instantly find the Acer Swift X familiar. Table of Contentsġ4-inch, matte, 1920 x 1080, non-touchscreen 60Hz, LCD 2.1-4GHz AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 5500U processor 8GB RAM 512GB NVMe HDD Nvidia GTX 1650 1.4KG. How does it fare? Update: Check out the new Acer Swift 5 review. The Acer Swift X is not your typical high performance laptop, but compromise is necessary if you want a budget ultraportable that plays games.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |