Acer introduced the Swift Go laptop series in CES 2023, driven by the Intel and AMD CPU. The laptop with AMD Ryzen engine was launched in March this year in India, and today it will review the base model of the Swift Go 14. It is aimed at urban youth that would want an elegant laptop and premium appearance that is portable and powerful. Find out if the swift Go 14 marks all the boxes.
Acer Swift Go 14 Price in India
The Acer Swift Go 14 is available in pink prodigy and pure silver. In the online store of Acer India, the laptop begins in RS. 59,999 and it is the variant that we will be testing. This comes with a CPU AMD Ryzen 5, 8 GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. For around RS. 5,000 more, you can obtain the same configuration but with 16 GB of RAM.
Acer Swift Go 14 Design and Characteristics
The Acer Swift Go 14 presents a metal chassis which is what gives it a premium appearance. It is also quite compact and light that measures only 15.9 mm thick and 1.25 kg of weight. The pink variant looks good and grows in you after a while. It obtains a good variety of ports for a 14-inch laptop and these include two USB 3.2 (gen1) type-C ports to load, HDMI, USB 3.2 (GEN1) Type A port, USB 2.0 Type A USB port, atrial headphones, headphones , and a Kensington lock. There is no SD card reader of any kind, which I don’t think it’s a total loss. The right side of the laptop also has two LEDs for the state of power and activity.
The Acer Swift Go 14 presents a totally metallic chassis and is quite light
The Acer Swift Go 14 backlit keyboard is well designed, and the keys themselves are receptive and not noisy. There is a digital footprint sensor in the ignition button that staggers when it is pressed, unlike the rest of the keys, but it works well when it comes to authentication. The trackpad does a good tracking job and you get a decent amount of space to rest the palms.
The 14 -inch screen has an appearance ratio of 16: 9, which makes it ideal to see most video contents. The Acer Swift Go 14 uses an IPS screen panel with a Full-HD resolution (1920×1080) and comes with an anti-glare matte finish. The screen has a nominal maximum brightness of 300 nits that I found more than adequate. The 1080p webcam is quite discreet and is located just above the screen. The Acer Swift Go 14 ships with just a 65W type C charger in the box.
Acer Swift Go 14 Specifications and Software
The Acer Swift Go 14 presents a CPU AMD Ryzen 5 7530U with six CPU cores. It is part of the mobile update of the AMD CPU that was announced during CES this year. However, this model is based on a renewed Zen 3 architecture, unlike the 7040 series that uses the latest Zen 4. This architecture. This is currently the only CPU configuration that Acer offers in India for the Swift Go 14 series. Storage It is treated by an SSD NVME PCIE GEN3 of 512 GB, and there are 8 GB of RAM. The laptop also has Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.1 and a 3-cell Whr battery.
The Acer Swift Go 14 presents a good amount of ports for a 14 -inch portable computer
Acer Swift Go 14 ships with Windows 11 Home, along with the usual pre -installed programs, such as Microsoft Office Home and Student, McAfee Antivirus and a lot of software by Acer for the diagnosis of the system and keep updated drivers.
Acer Swift Go 14 Performance and battery life
The general performance of the Acer Swift Go 14 is very good. It runs great and fans are not audible when performing simple tasks, but you can listen to them weakly during the games. I found that the angle of typification is quite ergonomic since the base relies a bit when the lid is open. Keyboard backlight is also soothing and the screen becomes bright enough even for outdoor use during the day. Applications are loaded quickly and I never really felt any lack of energy.
The stereo speakers become strong, but they don’t sound so good. The games work decently well with the graphics aboard Radeon. I was able to obtain soft frameworks in Fortnite with average graphics and executing myself in the native resolution of the screen. In synthetic game tests such as 3DMark, Acer Swift Go 14 returned a 1,268 score in the Time spy test suite and 13,570 in the night raid. The CPU and SSD performance was also very good. The laptop obtained 566 and 3,664 points in Cinebench R20, and returned an average reading speed of more than 1.5Gb/s for sequential and random tests in SISOFT Sandra. The writing speeds were lower in less than 900 MB/s.
The video representation and coding performance was also quite good. The Acer Swift Go 14 took 45 seconds to encode an AVI file of 1.3GB to H.265 MKV, while the BMW test scene in Blender took 6 minutes, 18 seconds to rendering. These were lower (better) times compared to something like the CPU Intel Core i5-1335u that we recently tested in Dell Inspion 16 2-In-1.
Acer Swift Go 14 keyboard is comfortable to write
The battery life is another prominent point of the Acer Swift Go 14. Taking into account its size, it worked for 3 hours and 26 minutes at the battery reference point. With my daily workflow, I was able to obtain approximately 7-8 hours of use without stopping before the battery was below 10 percent. According to these estimates, it should be possible to obtain up to 10 hours of use with a load (or more), if you do not use it without stopping. The laptop can be loaded quite quickly using the grouped charger. He obtains approximately 70 percent in one hour.
Verdict
It is really difficult to find failures with the Acer Swift Go 14, since it does everything you would expect from a thin and light portable computer, and this is before you even consider the price. In RS. 59,999 (less during sales), you get a well -designed compact laptop with good performance and long battery life. The speakers are possibly the only thing that is a bit disappointing, and the staggering ignition button feels a bit out of place on a laptop that otherwise gets good (or could simply be our unit). It is definitely worth recommending the Swift Go 14 if you are looking for a compact laptop from Windows under RS. 60,000 that do not compromise the battery life.
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