The Acer Swift 1 SF114-34 joins the brand's popular openness with a lightweight 'Super Slender' design that clues at undeniably more top notch PC marques. With estimating that reaches from £350 to £550, a mass-market PC doesn't hold back on the tasteful accessories.
At the lower end of that cost scale, the most recent Swift 1 is contending with any semblance of the Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 14, yet the top model I'm trying chances upon any semblance of the HP Structure 14 and the Microsoft Surface PC Go. It's starting ruckuses out of control, however it doesn't exactly have the motor important to bring on any bombshells.
I'm trying the top determination here, yet the presentation level doesn't change all that fiercely across the reach. The principal contrast appears to connect with inner capacity limit, which goes from 64GB straight up to a 512GB SSD.
Whichever variety of the Acer Swift 1 SF114-34 you pick, you're getting a similar fundamental recipe - a PC that is worked to perform essential undertakings in style. There is no elite exhibition choice thusly, which is to some degree amusing given the Swift name.
Design
- Premium design
- Finger impression scanner
- Solid pivot
Acer's Swift workstations place convenientce up front, and the Swift 1 is solidly on message. While we've seen more slender workstations at the top finish of the market, the Swift 1 SF114-34 chops down extensively on the thick components of the Yearn 1 line.
You're taking a gander at a light (1.30kg), thin (14.95mm) machine with a fair quality aluminum suspension. The Swift 1 feels reassuringly strong in the hand, and it remains solidly planted when you open it up.
It's not the simplest PC to get into, nonetheless. There's the typical modest Acer firm pivot, and that implies you need to value the two parts in half with two hands genuinely. Yet, that pivot additionally gains an additional degree of actual obstruction when it approaches the mostly open point.
At this crossroads, two elbows actually lift the back of the base off the surface. It makes for a pleasant, unobtrusively calculated composing point, yet it likewise feels very somewhat over-designed. On the in addition to side, that solidness and the way that the presentation is actually secured implies that it's very steady, regardless of the review point, and it doesn't restrain utilizing the Swift 1 on your lap all things considered.
The plastic screen bezels are sensibly thin, especially aside, with a guaranteed 84% screen-to-body proportion. The logo-bearing jaw bezel is the stout part here, however it to some degree vanishes behind the rear of the base as a component of that balance framework. There is a considerable amount of flex to the screen, yet it's not out of the ordinary at this finish of the market.
Keyboard and Trackpad
- Illuminated keyboard
- Fundamental trackpad
This survey was investigated and composed on the very PC it scrutinizes, and there's a justification behind this past being meta. Tapping through several thousand words in Word, quickly looking all over for different alters, and occasionally flipping between numerous open web tabs is an extraordinary method for putting any keyboard and trackpad combo through its speeds.
The Acer Swift 1 breezed through this audit assessment, and to be sure every other composing and exploring task, decisively. The keyboard is the standard MacBook-enlivened chiclet undertaking and a strong illustration of the structure at that. Similarly as with the new Acer Try 1, fluttering among this and my MacBook Expert 2019 caused no psychological shortcircuits at all, beyond the typical Windows/MacOS alternate way partition.
Without a doubt, the Swift 1 draws even nearer to Apple's consecrated turf, because of the presence of backdrop illumination, which makes composing in low encompassing lighting more plausible. However, i actually could do without the way the Page Up and Page Down keys have been pressed straight up to the left and right bolt keys. It prompts immeasurably a lot bouncing around when you're essentially hoping to calibrate cursor position.
Screen and Sounds
- IPS panel
- ComfyView covering
- Unremarkable variety
The Acer Swift 1 packs in a 14-inch Full HD show with a ComfyView covering. The last option has a matte completion that really does well in hosing glare.
Acer has utilized an IPS panel as opposed to the less expensive TN standard, and that implies that you won't wind up continually tinkering with the point of the presentation to obviously see.
The other benefit to Acer not cheaping out on the Swift 1's presentation is a respectable greatest brilliance of 301 nits, which was recorded utilizing an iDisplay Studio. This intends that, not at all like with specific other modest workstations, it will not be guaranteed to consume its entire working time on earth with the splendor wrenched up to 100 percent.
For normal daytime inside use, I found that among half and 66% brilliance level would get the job done. At the point when the encompassing lighting got significantly more splendid, obviously, there was extension to go higher.
Variety generation is not a big deal, be that as it may, with a simple 60% sRGB, 42% Adobe RGB, and 43% DCI P3. It very well may be brilliant and clear, yet entirely it's not particularly energetic. Get the job done to say, while I put a large portion of this survey together on the Swift 1, the pictures were evaluated on a more exceptional machine.
Specs and Execution
- Intel Pentium or Celeron
- 4-8GB Smash
- 64-512GB capacity
The Acer Swift 1 top model I tried runs of a 1.10GHz quad-center Intel Pentium Silver N6000 computer chip. Lower models use a little spread of choices, including the Pentium N5030, the Pentium N5000, and the Celeron N4500.
None of these processors you'd call a star entertainer. Indeed, even this top model scored a humble 1737 in the Geekbench 5 multi-center test, which is lower than the Lenovo IdeaPad 3i (1940), however somewhat higher than the Asus E410 (1606).
As you'll see from the accompanying GPU-centered benchmark results, the Acer Swift 1 falls well behind the Lenovo IdeaPad 3i with regards to pushing illustrations around, as well.
Overall terms, the Acer Swift 1 performs impeccably satisfactorily for the light errands it's worked for. Fluttering between records, internet browsers, and email never caused any extraordinary hitches for me, nor did starting up video content. Photograph and video editors need not matter, nonetheless, nor anything over relaxed gamers.
The Acer Swift 1 burdens with Windows 10 in S Mode as the default, which restricts you to applications introduced straightforwardly from the Windows Store. This doesn't seem like the sort of thing anybody burning through £500+ on a PC would need, so I deactivated it from the off for the full Windows 10 experience.
It didn't languish over the switch, however I viewed the Swift 1 as annoyingly lazy to wake from rest. Strangely, I didn't feel this degree of disturbance from the Acer Aim 1, which packs a similar processor. Maybe the greater cost and more top notch development of this top model sub-deliberately raised my assumptions or possibly brought my ability down to forgive and never look back.
This top-spec accompanies 8GB of DDR4 Smash, however less expensive models bring down that to 4GB. As far as capacity, the top model gives you a sound 512GB SSD, however spending less could get you 256GB, 128GB, or even 64GB.
Battery life
- Better than expected execution
- Barrel style charging port
Acer cases a 15-hour battery duration for the Swift 1, and that is in accordance with my own discoveries. I had the option to overcome a full working day including weighty Word, web, and Mail utilization, as well as watching two or three YouTube recordings and paying attention to some music, with enough left to begin a second day with.
In our standard circling video test at 120 nits brilliance, the PC endured 15 hours 12 minutes before it surrendered the phantom. It's a brilliant outcome, adequately beating the Asus E410 on 12:48, the Lenovo IdeaPad S340 on 14:26, and, surprisingly, more costly workstations like the Honor MagicBook 14 on 11:35.
At the point when it came time to re-energize this 45W triple-cell, the Swift 1 figured out how to recapture 39% shortly utilizing the packaged link. Acer cases that this will compare to four hours of utilization, and I'm not leaned to question that.