Acer's New Flagship Laptop Could Be The Best MacBook Pro Replacement Yet

Acer has unveiled its newest flagship laptop computer, the Swift Edge which competes with the LG Gram 16 in a distinct segment class finest outlined as ultrabook with the massive show. The SFA16-41, as it’s in any other case recognized, is just 13mm skinny, packs a 16-inch show and a weight of 1.17Kg, about 30g lighter in comparison with its LG rival; that’s because of its magnesium-alloy chassis.

It is usually one of many first, if not the primary mainstream laptop computer to be powered by the brand new AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 processors along with Pluton, a brand new safety characteristic applied by Microsoft.

The Swift Edge is offered with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM (albeit on one slot) and 1TB SSD, which is considerably greater than what others supply (LG Gram 16 for instance begins at 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD).

The flip side of this enhanced {hardware} configuration is a better worth: $1499.99 / €1499.99 / £1499.99. We’ve but to obtain affirmation that it is going to be accessible in Australia.

Constructed for creatives

Whereas the display screen is spectacular, it’s not the primary time that this show has been featured on a laptop computer.

Earlier Acer, Lenovo, Gigabyte, Dell and Asus bundled the same sized 16:10 OLED show with a few of their notebooks, permitting customers to get pleasure from the true property supplied by 3840 x 2400 decision (that’s 9.22 million pixels). Acer claims it helps 100% of the DCI-P3 shade gamut and 500 nits peak brightness for what it calls “cinema-grade visuals” – and it may effectively be the right laptop computer for Photoshop for some customers.

What makes the system stand out is the presence of the Ryzen 6800U, a strong 8-core, 16-thread processor based mostly on AMD’s Zen 3+ expertise and constructed utilizing a 6nm course. The top result’s a thrifty CPU that has a TPD corresponding to the Core i7-1260P (used within the LG Gram 16) however with an efficiency that rivals an extra energy-hungry processor just like the Core i5-12500H (as used within the Honor MagicBook 14).

As of now, there are solely two fashions that provide it: the gorgeous 1Kg Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED and the surprisingly inexpensive Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 4.

The remainder of the specification consists of the Radeon 680M graphics with an 8K-capable HDMI 2.1 port, Wi-Fi 6e wi-fi community, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-C ports, two Sort-A ports and an audio jack, all powered by fairly small 3-cell 54WHr battery, which Acer says will energy the Swift Edge for as much as 7.5 hours.

In comparison with the LG Gram 16, you lose the battery capability, the numeric keypad, the Thunderbolt Four ports and the additional SSD slot. Is it pricey? Sure if you happen to be after shade constancy and velocity, no if you happen to be after battery life and growth capabilities.