1/8/2024 0 Comments Review photoartist 3![]() If they were notifications for ways it can improve the system performance, maybe we shrug it off. We get some officious software, Acer Jumpstart, popping up notifications here and there. The webcam is as basic as they come as well.Īcer does go a bit beyond the brief with its software, but not in a good way. Pretty much the only way it goes beyond the basics is with a thin fingerprint scanner that we get to work about one in ten times we use it - not so unusual in our experience with laptop fingerprint scanners. There aren’t a lot of extras to get excited about with the Acer Swift 3 (2021). And, even spending a whole day writing, editing, reviewing, and YouTubing on Chrome with way too many tabs open, the laptop doesn’t leave us looking for a power outlet at midday. Thanks to the anti-glare display, it’s easy to keep running the Acer Swift 3 without needing to crank the brightness to 100% at all times, helping conserve battery some. We can brush the worries aside, though, as our own use of the Acer Swift 3 has put the battery to test in real life, and it holds up quite well. ![]() The disparity between the two scores does leave us scratching our heads a bit, as usually we see the two tests lineup more closely if not seeing the movie playback even come out ahead. It's a monster in our battery life benchmarks, lasting 14 hours and 31 minutes in our PCMark 10 Battery Life test and just passing the 9-hour mark in our video playback test. The Acer Swift 3 (2021) is certainly living up to its Intel Evo certification. It’s not a dramatic fault, and not something that happens every minute, but it’s a consistent lack of responsiveness that we haven’t experienced on some laptops that actually showed worse performance in benchmarks. We’re using the Acer Swift 3 extensively, and often find it stalling and feeling unresponsive, occasionally failing to load a program right away and then popping up multiple instances of it several seconds later. The benchmarks aren’t the whole story, though. However, the story of 20 continues as the Acer Swift 3 (2021) is yet another Windows 10 Ultrabook that falls behind the M1 MacBook Air in performance, and that device has considerably more impressive looks, though isn’t quite up to snuff on port variety. The fans do kick in a bit when the Acer Swift 3 is flexing its muscles, but the noise is far from the wailing that gaming laptops put out of their cooling systems. ![]() Single-core performance is strong for a laptop, and multi-core performance is no slouch, though we’ve seen the Ryzen 7 5700U offer improved multi-core performance thanks to its extra cores. The Acer Swift 3 shows solid numbers in our tests. In fact, the Acer Swift 3 beat that laptop in every single one of our performance benchmarks while both were running on the same processor. That upward-facing exhaust vent that we find unsightly may be the very thing that helps it come out ahead of similarly specced Ultrabooks that go for a more impressive build, like the Dell XPS 13 (Late 2020). The Acer Swift 3 (2021) may be making up for its looks with its performance. PCMark 10 Battery Life: 14 hours 31 minutesīattery Life (TechRadar movie test): 9 hours 9 minutes Here’s how the Acer Swift 3 (2021) performed in our suite of benchmark tests:ģDMark Time Spy: 1,841 Fire Strike: 5,096 Sky Diver: 15,380 These new models have yet to hit the UK market. The Acer Swift 3 (2021) is available now in the US in several configurations ranging from an Intel Core i5-1135G7 model equipped with 8GB of memory and 512GB of storage for $799 (about £585, AU$1,095) to an Intel Core i7-1165G7 model with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage for $999 (about £735, AU$1,370). Ports: 2 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, 1 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2/Thunderbolt 4, Barrel power adapter, HDMI, headset jackĬonnectivity: 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 Storage: 512GB PCIe SSD (475GB Available) ![]() Here is the Acer Swift 3 (SF314-511-70TU) configuration sent to TechRadar for review:ĬPU: 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-1165G7 (quad-core, 12MB cache, up to 4.7GHz)
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