Acer Swift 3 SF315 (8250U, MX150, FHD) Laptop Review

[Redaktion]

Multitalented. Acer's 15.6-inch all-rounder is equipped with a quad-core processor, an IPS display and a GPU with enough performance power to render current games – and more. Even with its high-performance hardware, it offers a long battery life.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Swift-3-SF315-8250U-MX150-FHD-Laptop-Review.258594.0.html

[Acerrimo]

Nice review. I'm interested on this laptop, but I have a question. How could you say it has two soldered memory banks of 4Gb each if you did not open the chassis?

[Vikrant Sharma]

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[Abstracted]

Acer says that the Acer Swift 3 SF314 14" has soldered in RAM, but this Acer, the Swift 3 SF315, does not. There are 2 RAM slots, with both memory sticks being user replaceable.

Please confirm that this is true.

[notebookchat-reader]

I bought this laptop and wanted to add a few pieces of info:
* The m.2 22x80 slot supports NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 drives (such as the Samsung 960 EVO I installed)

* Chassis can be opened with a T6 screwdriver and something flat to undo the clips on the perimeter (I used a small flathead bit)

* Here is a pic of the chassis opened: i.imgur.com/ijWsfBB.jpg
(sorry can't post clickable links)

* The hard drive is under the bottom-left shield, the m.2 slot is under the top-right shield.

* I did not find ram slots, but then again, I was not able to remove the top-center shield (heatpipes are running through it, so I am assuming CPU and GPU are located there). So I would assume, for now, that ram is NOT upgradable.

* Fingerprint sensor is not of the same quality compared to what an iphone or Nexus 5X offers. I most often need two or three tries until my finger is recognized. Many fingerpress are simply not recognized (i.e. no response at all from laptop).

[notebookchat-reader]

Another few points:
* The weight is actually closer to 2kg/4.6 lbs.

* The usb-c port does not support Display port ALT mode so no way to get a 3rd screen output via the usb-c-to-hdmi/VGA dongles. (Confirmed by Acer support and by buying 2 unusable dongles)

[Mitisko]

User: Abstracted writed notebook have 2 ram slot but this NO TRUE. Notebook have 8GB ram 2133MHz in dual chanal solderling in mother board
User Abstracted is suck and bastardo

[Rasmus HJ]

Anyone seen a reference to where this model is available with 4K / UHD display?

[Konstantin]

Hello! I have a problem with a laptop exit from sleep mode. When I open the lid of the laptop, it does not respond to its activation and pressing the buttons (even power button). Though there is a heating and operation of the fan is heard. Only after pressing the power button for 10 seconds, it is restarting. Is it a defect or somehow I can fix this problem? Thanks!

Model SF315-52G (NX.GZAEL.002 RU/V2G)

[Zsombor]

I have a very similar problem (also with an SF315-52G), I can't wake up Windows with my touchpad after sleep mode. As far as I know these errors are known by Acer, and the whole series have them, so I guess they'll have a fix sooner or later. For now I turned sleep mode off as a temporary solution.