5/16/2023 0 Comments Photodirector for acer![]() If there is one you should keep, it's Acer Care Center. In typical Acer fashion, the Swift 5 is pre-loaded with a bunch of unnecessary apps. ![]() Acer Swift 5 (2020) software and warranty Parts of the laptop you'll actually touch, like the keyboard (89 degrees) and the touchpad (84 degrees), were even more temperate. The Swift 5 kept its cool in our heat testing, peaking at 94 degrees Fahrenheit, or a slight breeze below our 95-degree comfort threshold. It will do in a pinch, no doubt, but an external webcam delivers much better image quality for video conferencing. My rosy face was a pumpkin-orange color in a selfie I snapped in my apartment and there was a lot of visual noise. I commend Acer for fitting the webcam on the top bezel, even if the picture quality is mediocre. That great result tops the category average (8:42) and is in the same ballpark as the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (9:30), the MacBook Air (9:31) and the Surface Laptop 3 (9:17). You won't be playing AAA games at high graphics settings until the MX350 GPU arrives but the Intel Iris Plus graphics in the current model do a decent job. In comparison, the storage drives in the Surface Laptop 3 (541.4 MBps), the MacBook Air (1,302 MBps) and the premium laptop average (615.6 MBps) are much speedier. It took the laptop 10 seconds to duplicate 4.97GB of multimedia files for a transfer rate of 494.1 megabytes per second. The 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD in the Swift 5 delivers slightly below-average speeds. The MacBook Air (27:10) and the Surface Laptop 3 (24:55), both of which are equipped with Ice Lake CPUs, needed even more time. The laptop needed 20 minutes and 5 seconds to convert a 4K video to 1080p resolution, which is longer than it took the category average (19:47) or the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (16:52). Intel's 10th Gen Ice Lake chips really struggle on our video-transcoding test, and the Swift 5 suffers for it. The Acer also fell short of the category average (4,231) and couldn't top the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (15,648, Core i5-8265U) on the Geekbench 4.1 test, landing a score of 15,097. The Swift 5 crushed the MacBook Air (2,738, Core i5-1030NG7) on the Geekbench 5 test but was decimated by the Surface Laptop 3 (4,801, Core i7-1065G7) by about the same margin. Our benchmark tests yielded mixed results. That said, power users might want to wait for a model with 16GB of RAM, especially since memory isn't upgradable. I didn't notice any stuttering, even when I launched a handful of 1080p YouTube videos and a Twitch stream. ![]() Acer Swift 5 (2020) performanceĪrmed with an Intel Core i7-1065G7 CPU and 8GB of RAM, the Swift 5 delivered enough power for me to write this review with no fewer than 16 Google Chrome at any given time. Glass Animals' "Your Love (Déjà Vu)" lacked bass and didn't get loud enough to fill my small apartment. The bottom-firing speakers on this laptop sounded tinny and thin when I listened to John Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room." Mayer's voice was piercing and the drums had so little depth it sounded like someone hitting a wood block. Make sure to add a good Bluetooth speaker or wireless earbuds to your online shopping cart when you buy the Swift 5. The integrated left- and right-click buttons, however, are stiff and loud. It's not the smoothest, so my cursor felt jumpy at times but I had no issues using Windows 10 gestures, like pinch-to-zoom and three-finger swipe to flip between apps. The 4.1 x 2.5-inch touchpad on the Swift 5 is fine. That outpaces my usual 119-wpm and with fewer errors. ![]() I typed at a zippy 121 words per minute with an accuracy of 96% on the typing test. The arrow keys are small, but all the other keys are a good size and appropriately spaced out. It feels good to type on - the keys are clicky and there is a decent amount of travel despite the slim chassis. Gold font aside, there isn't anything particularly noteworthy about the keyboard. With that out of the way, let's talk about the typing experience. Placing the power button next to the delete key and making it the same shape and size is asking for people to inadvertently power off their laptop. I complained about it in my Asus ExpertBook B9450 review, and I'll happily do it again. Acer Swift 5 (2020) keyboard and touchpad The ThinkPad X1 Carbon (336 nits), the MacBook Air (386 nits), the Surface Laptop 3 (348 nits) and the category average (356 ntis) all breached the 300-nit mark. With a peak brightness of 296 nits, the Swift 5 can be easily viewed outside on a bright day, although the screens on competing laptops get even brighter.
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