Acer has unveiled its latest flagship laptop, the Swift Edge, which competes with the LG Gram 16 in a niche category best defined as ultrabooks with large displays. As we all know, the SFA16-41 is only 13mm thick, has a 16-inch display, and weighs 1.17kg, which is about 30g lighter than its LG rivals; thanks to its magnesium alloy chassis.
It’s also one of the first mainstream laptops to feature the new AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 processor and Pluton, a new security feature implemented by Microsoft.
The Swift Edge comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM (albeit on one slot) and a 1TB SSD, which is a lot more than others offer (for example, the LG Gram 16 starts with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD).
Born for creativity
While the screen is spectacular, this isn’t the first time such a display has been shown on a laptop.
Before Acer, Lenovo, Gigabyte, Dell, and Asus bundled similarly sized 16:10 OLED displays in some of their laptops, users could enjoy the space the 3840 x 2400 resolution offered. Acer claims it supports 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut and a peak brightness of 500 nits, which is what it calls “cinematic-quality visuals” — and for some users, it may well be the perfect laptop for Photoshop.
What makes this device stand out is the Ryzen 6800U, a powerful 8-core 16-thread processor based on AMD’s Zen 3+ technology and manufactured using a 6nm process. The end result is a frugal CPU with a TPD comparable to the Core i7-1260P (used in the LG Gram 16) but with performance comparable to more power-hungry processors like the Core i5-12500H (used in the Honor MagicBook 14) Comparable).
So far, only two models offer it: the stunning 1kg Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED and the amazingly priced Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 4.
The rest of the specs include a Radeon 680M graphics card with an HDMI 2.1 port with 8K support, Wi-Fi 6e wireless networking, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports, two Type-A ports and an audio jack, all made up of a fairly small The 3-cell 54WHr battery, which Acer says can power the Swift Edge for up to 7.5 hours.
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