Acer Swift 16 AI Review: A profitable 16-inch laptop

Fortunately, the touchpad is the perfect size made of gorilla glass and a clean reaction when depressed. You will not be able to miss the added lighting effect in the upper right corner. This purely decorative effect strangely impulses every time you use an AI app (or when you press the Copilot key). It is supposed to be throbbing at startup, but it did not happen in my tests. Anyway, I found the throbbing effect quite soothing and in the end I wanted that there was an easy way to keep it all the time. Alas, the Arsense packaged software only allows you to turn it off without configuring options.

The overall design is quite without nonsense-aluminum wrap with a soft dust touch, entirely black with a little more than the Acer logo to break it. This will not turn your heads unless you catch people who enchant this pulsating effect on the touchpad.

Productivity is slightly better than expected of a unit with a fairly low processor and the largest minimum RAM. You will not find that you are waiting for the browser pages to load or spreadsheets to recalculate AI tasks as real-time translation were responsive to my testing. This said that intensive processing tasks would be sinking, especially when the graphic tasks are in the cards. Otherwise, performance is good for an average system.

Main requisites for the Acer’s thermal control here: I couldn’t even get the fan to kick, no matter what I threw into the Swift AI, and the device remained comfortably cool throughout my testing. The speakers are not particularly remarkable, although they were very strong under different conditions of testing. The battery life was shy at 13 hours in a full-screen YouTube test test, which is a little low for a laptop in the 16-inch category, but good enough for most users.

The only basic complaint I found during testing included loading the device, as Swift AI did not like to be charged through a third -party supply brick. The 65-watt adapter included (which, by the way, was very small in size), worked in all conditions, but with a drained battery, my third-party adapter could not continue the laptop. Quite strange, as the battery had a certain charge from the official adapter, the third -party adapter started to work well.

Swift 16 AI feels big and spacious, physical and digital, though with 3.4 pounds with 20 mm thick, it is very fresh for a 16-inch system and feels light, whether in the hand or vacation in the lap. The best thing is that at $ 1.049, this Windows machine is a solid dealoffering more than enough performance and functions to justify their requested price. There may not be much on the path of surplus – well, maybe that one The front of the touchpad – but as it turns out, it does not seem to need them.