The Swift X is a new laptop series from Acer that combines power and portability like never before. We spent some time with one.
The PC industry has been riding the Ultrabook wave for many years now with super thin and light laptops. But the tradeoff is performance, with less powerful CPUs and the lack of discrete GPUs found in gaming laptops and workstation rigs.
The new Acer Swift X is an answer to that – an in-between laptop that is still super light 1.39 kg (3.06 lbs) but can also deliver some serious power when needed. With a Zen 3 AMD Ryzen 7 5800u, new RTX 3050 Ti graphics, and a 14-inch display, the Acer Swift X is that sweet spot.
Here`s what this laptop is all about in our hands-on.
Acer Swift X: AMD, NVIDIA, and a clean design
The Ryzen 7 5800U came just a few months ago and is the more powerful of the two Ryzen 7 U series. The 15W chip features eight cores, 16 threads, 20MB of ache, and peaks at 4.4Ghz. The NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti, meanwhile, was only announced earlier ...
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