Acer Swift 1 SF114-34 Review: Silent, long-lasting 14-inch laptop

[Redaktion]

Acer's 14-inch laptop scores some major points thanks to its great battery life, silent operation, keyboard backlight and matte IPS screen. The quad-core Pentium Silver N6000 performs about as well as a Skylate chip. Windows is not included. The whole package cost 279 Euros (~$315).

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[Stihy]

It's better to buy second hand 2 years old Lenovo ThinkPad for the price than this crappy unit.
Acer is well known for poor durability. That case and hinges cannot handle usage outside 1y warranty period.

[Milkah Jr.]

Correction: memory is 2x2 GB LPDDR4x in this unit. 2 out of 4 channels are soldered. Your 8 GB unit solders 4 out 4.
Swift 1 and up don't use "single-channel" memory due to how SDRAM economics are right now.

[Jochen1]

I am writing this on my Acer Swift 1 (2017) with an N4100 processor. It's been a brilliant laptop for me - completely silent, magnificent build quality, 100% sRGB and good battery time. That said, I would never buy a computer of any kind that displays only slightly more than half of the colours, so I will not be upgrading to this one.

[allanfran2]

It's better to buy second hand 2 years old Lenovo ThinkPad for the price than this crappy unit.
Acer is well known for poor durability. That case and hinges cannot handle usage outside 1y warranty period.

My eBay searches show cheapest/refurbished thinkpad 2 years old with warranty is about €600.

Also does the old thinkpad may not have 10 hours battery life / 1.2 kg / wifi 6/ fanless for about €240 new. I do have some old thinkpads/latitudes are work horse (or server) but this is different use case.