The Acer Swift 3 2017 is the most recent revision of Acer's spending 14-inch ultraportable workstation. It offers a conceivably idealize adjust between the smooth, slimness of premium Ultrabooks, for example, the Dell XPS 13 and chunkier, less expensive 15-inch PCs.
With its all-metal body, Intel Center i5-7200U processor, Full HD screen and a guaranteed 10 long periods of battery life, this 2017 form of the Acer Swift 3 has bounty pulling out all the stops. I was inspired by the past form of the Acer Swift 3, yet would this be able to new model convey? Not exactly, for reasons unknown.
acer swift 3 review: Price and Availability
Key Features
- Review Price: £750.00
- 2.5-3.1GHz Intel Core i5-7200U
- 8GB RAM
- 256GB SSD
- 14-inch, Full HD IPS display
- SD card reader, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, HDMI, 1 x USB Type C
- Claimed battery life: 10 hours
acer swift 3 review: Design and Display
Like its ancestor, the new Swift 3's greatest resource is its all-aluminum body. The screen top, console encompass and base are altogether made of the metal and it looks extraordinary for it. Inside, it's worked around a plastic edge, so you don't get the strong feel of a MacBook, however the impact is to a great extent the same.
Less welcome, however, is the acquaintance of chamfered edges with the console encompass and touchpad. They look sufficiently pleasant yet are somewhat sharp to the touch.
Another change for the more regrettable is the presentation of a glass front board to the screen. It looks decent – and all the more MacBook-like – at the same time, when contrasted with the matt
e plastic of the past adaptation, the shiny finish isn't as welcome with regards to reflection.
A pleasant touch is the single, solid portion of elastic that circles the screen to secure it when shut. This looks much superior to anything when you have singular blobs of elastic in each corner.
The bezel around the screen isn't what I'd call thin. Couple this with the way that the display is 14 inches corner to corner, rather than the 13.3-inch of littler Ultrabooks, and you have a PC whose impression isn't especially little – it's littler than 15-inch machines, yet its 338 x 234mm measurements are a long ways from equal Ultrabooks. It's stunningly thin, however, at only 18mm thick.
Concerning availability, you get an adequate choice. A full-estimate HDMI, USB Compose C, two USB 3.0 ports and earphone jack rundown the left edge of the gadget, while the privilege is home to a SD card peruser and a USB 2.0 port. You'll additionally discover two or three marker lights here to indicate whether the workstation is on, off, or in reserve, and if the battery is charging.
Worked in air conditioning Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are incorporated as well, in addition to there's a webcam in the standard spot.
acer swift 3 review: Performance
The Swift 3 is accessible in a few unique setups. The less expensive choice incorporates the Intel Center i3-7100U processor, 4GB of Smash and a 128GB SSD, while the £100 more costly form knocks up to an Intel Center i5-7200U, 8GB of Slam and a 256GB SSD – this is the adaptation checked on.
Numerous clients ought to be content with the 7100U form, however the additional processor speed, Slam and capacity unquestionably makes the £100 overhaul advantageous. Eminently, the past form offered the last design for £100 less.
To test the execution of this model we started up our standard pontoon of benchmarks, beginning with PCMark 8. This mimics an assortment of everyday errands, for example, web perusing, easygoing gaming, photograph altering, video altering and so forth, then thinks of a general score.
The Swift 3 earned 2709 focuses, which puts it somewhere close to more great bigger workstations and less expensive, less intense ones. This score is additionally a few hundred focuses in front of a year ago's Swift 3, so there has been some advance here.
In the comparable Geekbenck 4 benchmark the Acer Swift 3 2017 scored 6266 focuses, which again proposes a machine that offers more than satisfactory execution to handle the fundamentals.
Then, in the 3D gaming benchmark – 3DMark Ice Tempest – it scored 49,636 focuses. While this is probably not going to be a solid gaming machine, in fact, it would be just about conceivable to play more seasoned titles on it, at low determination.
Significantly, not at all like considerably less expensive workstations, the level of execution here is fine for multi-entrusting. Any semblance of the Acer Turn 1 are slow to the point that they nearly must be utilized like tablets – one errand at any given moment.
acer swift 3 review: Battery life
Acer cases ten long periods of battery life for the Swift 3 2017, however in our government sanctioned test it didn't accomplish this. Setting the screen to a brilliance of 150 nits (70% on the workstations shine scale), it kept going 7h 36m.
This is about the same as the past adaptation of this PC, so at any rate there's some consistency there, however it's as yet a touch disappointing considering the ten-hour assert. Plainly, Acer is trying the workstation at least splendor, which is absolutely unrealistic in typical utilize.
Viewing a hour of Netflix saw the battery deplete by 11%, proposing the PC can push somewhat more like ten hours when just watching video. Spending somewhat more on premium 13-inch Ultrabooks, for example, the Dell XPS 13 will have a tendency to get you marginally longer battery life.
acer swift 3 review: Final verdict
The Acer Swift 3 2017 is a stylish, dependable, thin and bounty intense workstation at a sensible cost. It isn't as extraordinary a deal as its forerunner, however it's still definitely justified even despite a look.