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Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop
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The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
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Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air’s thinness and lightness — and in the process, it cops another laptop’s name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring as little as 0.51 inches / 12.95mm thin. That’s around 1.7mm thicker than Apple’s svelte 13-inch MacBook Air, but Acer’s Blade is nearly a pound lighter. Its featherweight stature is partly due to Acer using carbon fiber in the laptop’s top lid and bottom plate.
Inside the Swift Blade will be a range of Intel Wildcat Lake processors, from the lowly five-core Core 3 304 that I tested in the Chuwi UniBook to the six-core Intel Core 7 350. And regardless of which exact chip is inside, the Acer will come with 12GB of RAM. So it’s not likely that the Acer will go toe-to-toe with the MacBook Air’s M5 chip in terms of raw performance, but it could make a compelling case for someone who prefers their laptop to be about as light as they come.