With the Swift 7, Aces has added a feather-light and ultra-slim 14-inch notebook to its offerings. The devices scores with an IPS touchscreen display, 16 GB of working memory (dual-channel mode), and silent operation. This is accompanied by a good battery life and two Thunderbolt-3 slots. For the whole package, you have to put almost 2000 Euros (~$2226; $1700 in the US) on the table.
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There were devices this light, there were devices this thin, but this is probably the only one that's this light and this thin, but the 32Wh battery also sounds worst-in-class, I may have only seen such a small battery on 11" laptops and tablets.
Quote from: S.Yu on November 09, 2019, 21:07:13
There were devices this light, there were devices this thin, but this is probably the only one that's this light and this thin, but the 32Wh battery also sounds worst-in-class, I may have only seen such a small battery on 11" laptops and tablets.
Ehh, who cares?
The battery life is fantastic. This is the most efficient Core-based device I've seen. 31.9WHr and gets 8.5 hours battery life in web browsing and 10.5 hours in video playback!
Of course the multi-threaded performance isn't fantastic, and so is the graphics.
That contrast ratio is amazing - a record for IPS? Shame about the brightness.
Quote from: DavidC1 on November 10, 2019, 02:48:22
Quote from: S.Yu on November 09, 2019, 21:07:13
There were devices this light, there were devices this thin, but this is probably the only one that's this light and this thin, but the 32Wh battery also sounds worst-in-class, I may have only seen such a small battery on 11" laptops and tablets.
Ehh, who cares?
The battery life is fantastic. This is the most efficient Core-based device I've seen. 31.9WHr and gets 8.5 hours battery life in web browsing and 10.5 hours in video playback!
Of course the multi-threaded performance isn't fantastic, and so is the graphics.
I don't put much trust in the "efficiency" of x86 and Intel, so far the only way I got acceptable battery life on a Windows device without a huge battery was through using the battery saver, and dealing with severe throttling and a barely legible screen brightness. Maybe it's my usage pattern I don't know but I'm not even gonna try a passively cooled Core device (the lag) at the moment, they're not Apple.
Come on Acer, enough with the 'checkbox' crap.
Drop the touchscreen. Increase the thickness by a mm or two and bump the battery size up to at least 42 watt hours.
Then cut the price by 1/3. Plus, I can never find these extra-ultrabooks anywhere. They are mythical beasts. Can they only be ordered directly from you?
it took my attention, no doubt.
just extra 100 nit-and it worth the money, in my opinion.
While I would love to get a new fanless laptop for programming, this misses the mark: too expensive, display too dark, battery life too short - I want to work up to 9 hours even after 2 years: nope, not for me. The CPU is in the same ballpark as a 3rd gen i5, plenty for what I do...
the display is more than bright enough when used inside ... I love how light it is and its slim bezels ...
... by the way fedora is working great on it : very low idle power consumption (like 1.8W instead of 2.7W on Windows) and microphone is working with 5.15 LTS kernel (see https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/127e080/just_got_a_used_acer_swift_7_sf71452t_for_a_good/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/127e080/just_got_a_used_acer_swift_7_sf71452t_for_a_good/) ) ...