Acer is refreshing its Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 laptops, showcasing one of many first cases of AMD’s newest Ryzen 8000 cell household of processors in addition to a brand new AI app which Acer is preloading on the PCs.
Acer will shift its up to date Swift Edge 16 starting in March, for $1,299 and up. Acer’s Swift Go 14 with the newest Ryzen chips inside will value $699 and up, and can ship in April.
Acer’s Swift Edge 16 shipped final yr with the older Ryzen 7840U inside. PCWorld’s Swift Edge 16 (2023) evaluate assigned it 4 out of 5 stars, praising its inky black show, sturdy efficiency, and lightweight weight, however frowning at its plasticky building and keyboard. PCWorld’s evaluate of the Acer 2023 Swift Go gave it a half star much less, once more praising its show and efficiency however criticizing its building.
AMD introduced its Ryzen 8000 household final December, with few adjustments from the prior era. The brand new chips do embrace a extra highly effective “Hawk Level” AI NPU, nonetheless, which will increase the NPU’s energy by 6 trillion operations per second (TOPS) to 16 TOPS within the NPU, and 39 TOPS throughout the rest of the chips. AMD refers back to the Ryzen 8000 household because the Ryzen 8040 sequence processors.
Since these are AMD Ryzen-based laptops — and Intel refuses to certify non-Intel platforms for Thunderbolt — you’ll discover functionally equal USB4 ports as an alternative. AMD’s new Ryzen 8000 household will tackle Intel’s Meteor Lake (Core Extremely) and its 14th-gen Core HX platform.
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Acer’s Swift Edge 16 specs for its 2024 mannequin replicate a welcome improve to as much as 32GB of RAM and as much as 2TB of SSD storage, along with the spectacular 3,200×2,000, 120Hz OLED show carried over from the prior era. Processor choices embrace the Ryzen 7 8840U and the Ryzen 5 8640U. The laptop computer carries the identical ethereal 2.71-pound weight as its predecessor, and the identical dimensions as effectively.
What’s new for the Swift Edge 16? The addition of a Pluton safety processor, which Microsoft initially co-developed with AMD to safe the Xbox.
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The Swift Go 14, quite the opposite, ships with three upgrades: the Pluton coprocessor, the upgraded Ryzen 8000 processors, and a 44 % bigger touchpad than the earlier iteration. It now measures 4.92 inches by 3.02 inches.
The Swift Go 14 features a few totally different display screen choices, from a 14-inch OLED (2880×1800) to 2 IPS panels, at both 2240 x1400 or 1920×1200 apiece. Three processor choices are included: the Ryzen 9 8945HS, the Ryzen 7 8845, or the Ryzen 5 8645HS.
Each the Swift Go and the Swift Edge embrace a better-than-usual 1440p webcam, although solely the Swift Go features a privateness shutter.
The brand new laptops embrace the AcerSense key, as earlier than. Nonetheless, Acer executives informed us that they’d be including AI-specific options over the course of 2024. With these new laptops, Acer is exhibiting off LiveArt, an app to make use of AI to tweak present photographs by eradicating their background and different options. Acer confirmed off LiveArt, in addition to a few of its plans for generative AI, within the video beneath.
Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) fundamental options:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS/Ryzen 7 8845HS/Ryzen 5 8645HS
- Reminiscence: as much as 32GB LPDDR5X
- Graphics/GPU: Radeon 780M/760M
- Show: 14-inch OLED (2880×1800, 90Hz) / 14-inch IPS (2240×1400, 90Hz) / 14-inch IPS (1920×1200, 90Hz)
- Storage: As much as 2 TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD
- Webcam: 1440p w/shutter
- Connectivity: 2x Thunderbolt 4/USB-C, 2x USB-A, MicroSD card reader, 3.5mm combo audio jack
- Networking: WiFi 6E, Bluetooth
- Biometrics: None
- Battery capability: 65 watt-hours
- Dimensions: 12.32 x 8.6 x 0.59in
- Weight: 2.91 kilos
- MSRP: $699 and up
Acer Swift Edge 16 (2024) fundamental options:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 8840HS/Ryzen 7 8640U
- Reminiscence: as much as 32GB LPDDR5X
- Graphics/GPU: Radeon 780M/760M
- Show: 16-inch OLED (3200×2000, 120Hz)
- Storage: As much as 2 TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD
- Webcam: 1440p w/shutter
- Connectivity: 2x Thunderbolt 4/USB-C, 2x USB-A, MicroSD card reader, 3.5mm combo audio jack
- Networking: WiFi 6E, Bluetooth
- Biometrics: None
- Battery capability: 65 watt-hours
- Dimensions: 14.08 x 9.68 x .0.51in
- Weight: 2.71 kilos
- MSRP: $1,299 and up
