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- Acer announced a slew of caller laptops astatine IFA successful Berlin, but nan Swift Air 16 is 1 of nan astir exciting.
- The 16-inch laptop has a starting weight of 2.18 pounds - 1 of nan lightest connected nan market.
- There are immoderate trade-offs pinch getting a 16-inch laptop down to this size, specifically pinch artillery life.
Acer announced a caller 16-inch featherweight laptop astatine IFA successful Berlin yesterday, weighing conscionable 2.18 pounds for nan IPS configuration -- astir nan aforesaid weight arsenic Asus' Zenbook A14, 1 of nan lightest laptops I've ever held. The AMOLED weighs conscionable 2.43 pounds, still lighter than a 13-inch MacBook Air.
The Acer Swift Air 16 manages this weight pinch a 16-inch show -- an awesome feat connected first glimpse and 1 of nan lightest 16-inch laptops connected nan marketplace correct now. Currently, we person European pricing group astatine astir €999, but nary group value for North America conscionable yet.
The Swift Air 16 will travel pinch an IPS aliases AMOLED option, up to a WQXGA+ solution astatine 120Hz for nan second configuration astatine 400 nits of brightness. Under nan hood, it's powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 processor, officially earning it nan Copilot+ PC title.
It comes pinch 32GB of LPDDR5 representation and up to a 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 SSD, 2 USB-C ports, 1 USB-A, an HDMI 1.4 port, and an audio jack.
One point to statement is nan device's 50Wh battery, which is mini for a 16-inch laptop. For comparison, nan antecedently mentioned Zenbook A14 houses a 70Whr artillery and weighs astir nan same, starring maine to judge this is 1 of nan much important trade-offs made to get it down to weight.
The Swift Air 16 is geared toward hybrid commuters and professionals who want a instrumentality that tin gaffe into a container unnoticed and worth portability and a nice-looking show complete earthy power. In that sense, it seems Acer is hoping nan display, future-forward design, and lightness-at-all-costs outweigh (no pun intended) immoderate gaps successful longevity.
The Acer Swift Air 16 will beryllium disposable successful North America successful Nov., 2025.
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