Acer Swift X SFX14-42G R607 Creator Laptop
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his is the acer swift x and when acer announced this i got very excited
because i feel like this is a laptop that a lot of students are going to be gravitating towards not only do you get like the traditional ultrabook or slim laptop that you carry to school the kicker is you get a dedicated gpu the price point is very reasonable for what you get and ifyou've ever used an acer swift 3 you're going to be very familiar on howthis laptop feels too.
There's a few different colors you can
choose from i got the gold edition
it's it's okay you know it's not like a
deep
dark gold it's very muted but the one
thing i don't like that they did was
they didn't
keep the golden casing around the entire
laptop they they made the bottom silver
and then they kept the top lid gold
which is okay
but it feels unfinished if you're a
maniac and you care about your laptop
being open with one hand you can do it
you just gotta go very slowly if you go
too fast the bottom is going to lift up
too then you gotta use your second hand
to push it down there's tons of i o you
know like on the left hand side
you have your power connector your usb
type-c port.
Full-size hdmi usb and then on your
right-hand side
you have a lock another usb port and
then of course
your headphone jack this is a light
laptop it's about three pounds so it's
not going to feel
heavy in your bag and when you open it
up
the bottom portion of the laptop lifts
up to provide a better cooling situation
now this display is 14 inches it's ips
it's 1920x1080 so it's 16x9 so you're
not going to get that 16x10 that i
personally prefer
for productivity but again the price is
is reasonable so
i'm gonna let them off the hook on this
one the screen is okay
you know like it's color accurate enough
that you can obviously do content
creation on this
but the brightness is a little on the
lower side like it's just over 300 nits
but it is matte so depending on how you
use your laptop if you're sitting in a
room with lots of reflection.
This screen is going to do a great job
of reducing that.
there's a webcam on top it's 720p and of
course it just looks like the rest
of 720p cameras that are out there on
the market now this keyboard is very
easy to type on.
It is a bit squishy with a little bit of
keyboard flex in the middle
the keys are not super clicky but
they're not the most
mushiest keys i've used but they're
definitely on the softer side
of course you get that back lighting the
only thing i really don't like
is the placement of the page up and page
down keys like why are they squashed in
with the arrow keys because the arrow
keys are very thin
as it is and placing a page up key above
it makes it kind of difficult
to press you do have a fingerprint
scanner if you want to use windows hello
to log in.
And you have a touchpad now this
touchpad is not glass
acer is calling it mayar which is
basically another word for plastic
i'm not gonna go crazy over the sticker
placement but i'm just gonna say this
quickly this is some of the worst
sticker placement
i've seen today okay like come on let's
wake up sticker guy like
have some pride in what you do your kids
your kids are looking up to you okay you
don't want them to feel like their dad
is the worst sticker guy in the business
they're gonna grow up one day
and they're gonna be the kid of that dad
who didn't
place the stickers properly
okay the speakers on this laptop are on
the bottom there's two of them
they're they're not great at all there's
like no depth to them.
whatsoever definitely like the bottom of
the barrel for pc speakers
but i get why they're not that great you
know like acer is focusing on the
performance and they want to give you
value for the performance
like think about it there's a ryzen 7
you're getting a full size
rtx 3050 ti the same wattage of the 3050
ti that's inside
the dell xps 15. and when you pair that
with 16 gigabytes of ram
14-inch display and of course 512
gigabytes of mvme ssd
the price looks very very reasonable and
when you're thinking about synthetics
and you're and you're running that
cinebench r23 test
the multi-core performance on this
actually beats out the dell xps 15.
and the single core performance does a
good job too.
It's just when you start doing more
intensive tasks that's where things
start to change
like if you're buying this just for
photoshop the performance is awesome
like
very close to like the high-end h-series
processors that are out there but if
you're using adobe premiere pro that's
where things start
to change you know even though this has
a 3050 ti the dell xps 15 obviously
outperforms it because of that beefier
hdre cpu
and then you've got intel quick sync
which is also playing a big factor
but if you're a developer the
performance is great you know you've
seen the the results on these ryzen
processors they're great you know and
it was able to quickly chew through a
mozilla compile
or mozilla firefox compile test very
quickly and obviously you can game on it
are you going to be crushing the latest
titles at
ultra or high settings no you're going
to have to drop down the settings to
about medium if you want to play most
games comfortably
but it can do it the fan noise is also
very low as this is a very
conservative laptop in terms of what it
can do with its thermals like
the cpu never really gets that hot and
if it does it reduces the clock speeds
in order to compensate
and even on performance mode the fan
noise only gets up to about 47 decibels
if your head is against the laptop
but if you're on a sitting position like
you normally would it gets to about 44
decibels which is more than reasonable
now taking a quick look at the inside a
lot of you are probably thinking that
the left-hand side has a little bit of
wasted space they could have made the
battery bigger
and if this had poor battery i would
agree with you but
this 57 watt hour battery inside of here
nets you 10
hours of use before needing to charge
which is great.
The other thing is you get two storage
slots one is obviously populated with
that 512 gigabyte
nvme ssd but if you want to expand in
the future there's a second one right
here
there's a swappable wi-fi card but the
memory
is soldered onto the motherboard so
whatever spec you get
that's what you're stuck with and you
can't upgrade the ram the only thing i
don't understand and this could be
because of engineering or costs in order
to keep the price lower
is why they didn't go with a second fan
i feel like if they had that second fan
there.
They probably would have been able to
cool this laptop even better
honestly for the price this thing is
very reasonable you know you're getting
an
eight core processor that's great for
programmers you're getting that
rtx 3050 ti that helps designers and
creators
or anyone that just needs actual gpu
performance
if you don't need a gpu at all then the
macbook air starts looking a bit more
attractive because it is retailing for
the exact same price
and you are getting better speakers a
better display
and a few other things but if you need
that you want to be on windows like this
thing.
Is a great deal there's a link to this
on amazon in the description down below
if you're interested in checking it out
if you have any questions.
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