2024 Acer Swift Go Review - GREAT Battery life + Good Performance!
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2023
- Review of the Acer Swift Go with Intels Meteor Lake Core 7 155H CPU!
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The most advanced Intel Arc Graphics (Xe-LPG) in Intel Meteor Lake allows you to connect 8K TV to the HDMI 2.1 port of this laptop. However, Acer has only confirmed DP 1.2 and HDMI 2.0 for model SFG14-72-53BP.
What do you think is better among Samsung galaxy book 2pro 360 Intel 12th Gen i5 Evo (16 GB /512gb ssd and this one? I am wondering which one would be better among them.
Had a 2017 swift 3 and it was pretty good
Nice!
Which one vas the best durability between Acer and Asus ? I would like to keep my PC at least 3-4 years.
Definitely Asus. I have the Acer Swift laptop and it feels so cheap. I dont know if this thing is going to last me more than two years xd
More fans do not equal louder - usually the opposite if the heat generation is the same.
What about heating and fan noise? all windows computers heat up a lot whether they are Intel or AMD
I am experiencing the same. It overheat and has loud fan noise. Impossible put this laptop on lap for more than 5 mns, feels burning, and the loud fan noise.... thinking of returning it
Hey Matthew,
Need a suggestion from your end if you can help out my purchase decision
1. Zenbook 14X (i7-13700H) for $700
2. G14 (7735HS) for $900
3. Slim Pro 7 X (6800HS-CE) for $800
If not any of these which one would you suggest to be the best buy under $900.
Much love, thanks
Which one did you chose?
Hey Matt, thanks for the review. I think acer lacks of design details on their devices. The only outstanding device I can think of is the acer aspire vero line ... I hope you'll review the 16 inch one soon! :)
What's the TDP of the AMD 7845HS you have beating the Intel 155H in benchmarks? I'm pretty sure it's 35-55W. Isn't the Intel 155H 28W?
@2:30 It'd be really nice if it is on par with RX "Seventy-eight hundred M", but unfortunately it only comes close to "Seven-eighty M" :)
Another honest review, thanks Matt. Acer has always put out budget friendly devices, I've had a few, and it's been apparent in the fit and finish. As you said, they need to lower the price on this laptop to be competitive.
Thanks Bryan!! Ya I think dropping it by $100 that would be great. Also, noticed they have an OLED Version of this for $999 so it is weird they are pricing the FHD model for the same price.
Acer was drunk. 😂
@@MatthewMoniz
@@MatthewMoniz OLED is becoming the new default base display quality. It will be surpassed with miniLED, and microLED to come.
It's $599 on amazon
@@tagheuer02 Now you're talking.
how can it be that loud when it does even have dedicated graphics?
ITs only when you put it on performance mode. Acer likes to give you the option to crank the fans as loud as they can go if you want max performance. If you leave it on normal they stay in the mid 40's under load and you get similar performance.
Thanks for the review.
It feels like this laptop makes just too many compromises. It doesn't have a good touchpad, screen, processing power, fit/finish, etc. What does this laptop have that is good?
I just ordered this of Amazon used like new for $450 with 16gb ram and 4k display. What a steal! I have loved my aspire 5 from 2015.
How is it going? Is your laptop running hot as mine?
@@oscarcorrea1453 Is the fan spinning up?
Even at $799…would you buy this over an M1 MacBook? Like the workloads you’d do on this without a dGPU, couldn’t you also do nearly as well on an M1 but still get better battery life, have 0 fan noise, and better build display speakers etc.
This is exactly the predicament I'm in right now. I definitely prefer Windows but you can get a m1 Macbook for $699. I'm honestly waiting for acer to release the Vero with a core ultra chip. They said that would start at $750. Idk I'm so torn.
Is there a non OLED version???
So Swift Go is basically a cheaper version of regular Swift with that flexing top lid and plastic material, though that webcam is nice along with decent cooling + tuning. Have to agree it's a tough swallow for $999 though, let alone bearing the Swift naming.
Single core perf is unremarkable but I like its sustained performance. Battery life looks decent too, did you update it with latest BIOS and Arc drivers?
New ARC driver is coming January 2024 to fix low power gaming and will provide way better performance in low power(sub 28W) and their "1 Watt iGPU Endurance Gaming" will work at 30fps.
I've been waiting for someone to review this, finally! What were you doing to get your battery life of 13hrs 19 mins?
Its the PC MArk Office test. SO its a combination of idle time, video conferencing and word processing
@@MatthewMoniz Cool! Pretty good and pretty close to how I probably use my laptop most of the time. Keep up the great work!
Same
@@ruykava
You kept saying "RX 7800M", I think you meant "Radeon 780M". The integrated stuff for AMD doesn't use the "RX" moniker.
Ya meant to say 780M
Acer Aspire 7 GeForce RTX 3050. VS Acer Shift Go oled 2023 with Evo. ??
Great video, but 13700h beats 155h in cpu performance. Hard pass for egpus beacuse swift go 14 13700h 2023 has 2 ssd slots, for oculink egpu. Also second ssd slot is under blue ribbon cable near the fans.
They released a new version with Ultra 9, will you review that?
i have this, its color blue. still on testing phase, also added 1 stick of 1tb nvme. when it is plugged, it gets very hot and loud, esp when on load. but boosted power. but me i prefer the silence than the noise. when you put it in silent mode even when plugged, it will not sustain in 4ghz range, resulting in lower temps. i have the core ultra 9 185h, 32gb lpddr5 ram but only 6400mhz (idk why), intel killer 1750x wifi 7, color blue, 2880x1800 oled 90hz. model num is sfg14-73-93un
It seems it’s gonna be nice year for intel laptops.
It's funny people comment on wanting AMD all the time but they never have stock or are able to produce as much as intel. So it's nice now that things are pretty even and you won't be making too many sacrifices choosing Intel or AMD or vice versa.
@@MatthewMoniz
100% agreed Sir, now Chiplet/Tiles architecture will Allow Intel to produce even more METEOR Lake chip than 13th Gen monolithic.
@@MatthewMonizimo Core Ultra 125U has the potential to fight both Ryzen 8440U and Ryzen 8540U in both availability and most likely pricing. AMD can price these aggressively like 5000U series using backordered 7640U (either as 7640U or 8540U) but availability will be a key factor for back to school season. I can speculate 125U laptop production being ramped up right now but 8440U/8540U? Hard to tell. Just like how Ryzen 2000U manage to shift mindset despite its obvious flaws, so is Core Ultra U series
Think I will probably go for the Zenbook
Are the hinges on these reliable years down the line?
All Acers have hinges that will break after 24 months. It's super common with the brand.
So we can't not upgrade the ram?
The good thing about these new Intel chips is it gives consumers more options come on sale days. We all know price drops happen on amd and Intel throughout the year so now we can at least consider intel again depending on the reduction
Exactly!
Forget the laptop - loving the sweater.😊
Haha I know it's Awesome
What about MSI Prestige 13 AI? Is it any good?
I should have one coming in soon!
1440p camera is nice - why don't other laptops do the same?
They do! Some other companies have 1440p cams as well but its not a lot
Amazon has some great $20 webcams if you need that resolution. Most people use their phones or are limited by the app's bandwidth.
Only intel new evo will have great camera became of new VCX metric camera test in EVO by Intel.
Again tx for the well made review
Display, touchpad, speakers, battery life, build quality are major parts to user experience.. ya 14 gen is ok but fan noise is present. why put an oled when everything else feel cheap. Honest review..
Thanks for watching!
does it hav backlit keyboard?
Yes
2:28 I've seen a couple of videos from this channel now, but he keeps calling 780M as 78 hundred M (7800M) on video
ya bad habit...
According to "hardwarecanucks"
AMD 7840HS or 7840U is not even close to Intel Core ULTRA 7 155H even at 25W in video editing using davinchi resolve 18 or Premiere pro.
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The AMD does not run at 25 watts, though, whereas the 155H maxes close to that.
Amd Runs at 30 Watt. Check hardware Canucks review of Zenbook 14.
@@andyH_England
exhaust direct to to bezel/screen, it's a great idea when you have full load system and hot air hits the bezel/screen for long term
It’s touch screen?
I like the clean design of Acer.
Please review asus expertbook b7 flip
Yikes! Guess I have no choice but to switch to macbook for Davinci Resolve 😅
Hi, thanks for your video. But what can you recommend now? I wanna buy my first own laptop - i used alot at work. I was thinking about buying the Swift Go 14, Ultra 7 155h with 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD. In Germany we can preorder for about 1249 Euro. My Budget is 1200 Euro +100 more maybe. The Swift Go 14 OLED Version with i7 13700h is 1099 Euro at the moment at Acer Winter Sale, dropped by 1399 Euro to 1099 EUR. Hopefully you got an idea for me.
idk why but i feel like recently acer always seems strange with their pricing, they're constantly more expensive while having less feature and looks/feels cheap
In Germany this laptop (2023 edition) is has a lower cost than any other laptop with same specs.
Lenovo is a bid behind now
Is this the 100th time Matthew says the 780M as the 7800M
LOL did i say 7800M? Oh boy..
@@MatthewMoniz 😉
Yeah man I've also noticed it a lot LoL
This laptop now comes with an OLED screen, which was your biggest complaint - I rarely used y touchscreens. Also comes with 1 TB HD. Swift Go 14 SFG14-72-72YK. I also use a USB docking station to a real mouse, real webcam, real Jabra Speaker. You can swap out to WiFi 7 when available. This is one of the better laptops on the market in Q1 2024.
Brutal value compared to the competition.
It's gonna be hard to beat Apple because Apple can control everything from silicon, OS, SW, Application, etc. So Macbook is really really optimized from the ground (which is amazing). While Intel/AMD have so many legacy support that they need to live with (you cannot remove them from silicon).
Also, Intel's process node is still behind. Intel 4 is their first EUV node, there is still a lot to improve IMO.
open source software is shit on apple tho
It’s simple to beat Apple for Half the price. Look at the Swift Go 14 SFG14-72-72YK which has twice the RAM, twice the storage at half the price.
I'll take boring design any day when travelling with a laptop. Boring and plain = not painting a target on your back
As a long time both mac and pc user, and as a creative user (Adobe Suite), we are living in an Apple world. Macbooks were already a better choice in the intel era since they had better build quality, trackpad, and battery life. But now, with m1, m2, m3, it just isnt even fair. Windows laptops are literal trash waste of money.. It's quite sad
for this price buy a macbook m2 a lot better display, build longevity etc
Apparently there's two M.2 slots on this laptop.
1:39 When has Adobe NOT had problems? 😂
LOLv so true
poeple so mad that they had to pirate adobe software so that they don't experience problems 😂
Seriously! Comparing this Acer to a MacBook Pro. Everything I've seen so far indicates these laptops should be compared to an Apple laptop more in its price range, i.e., the Air. The MacBook Pro (14" with a M3 Pro chip) is twice as expensive in its base configuration. If one is going to do a fair comparison then pick similarly priced laptops. Other than that, I don't disagree with the comments, although I'm more interested in how the M3 base in a Air compares, even though the Air is much more expensive also, especially after its memory and storage have been upgrade to 16GBs and 512GBs respectively. How much better is the M3 vs the Intel 155H?
I think your confused. The MacBook pro 14 in this video is using the regular base m3. Not m3 pro. There is no m3 in an air yet that won't be announced until next year and it will have similar perormance to the MacBook Pro 14 with base m3 that is Included in this video.
@@MatthewMoniz Fair enough. I didn't expect the 155H to be as good as an Apple M3.
I on the other hand don't care that it looks slightly dated, makes it less likely to be stolen. It looks fine, other than the fact that it needs to be thicker for better cooling, thin and light has to be one of the worst things manufacturers ever did for performance, also valuing looks over reliability and performance, not only would it be better thicker for better cooling, but they could also fit a nice 99wh battery in there too. But nope, people only care about one thing these days.
I have seen the MB Air M2 priced around $999, so I recommend that as a better ultrabook choice. Although you would have less RAM and storage. But I have used a base MB Pro 13 M1 for three years with 8GB/256GB, and it would still compete well with this 2024 new Intel kid on the block.
They overpriced the laptop first so when it goes on "sale" they can drop it down to $799 which is still a bit overpriced for this build quality
That is the Apple business model, and it makes sense that rivals are now latching onto this business practice. If your price is too low at launch, selling for the rest of its cycle becomes increasingly more difficult. Apple sussed that out years ago, and they use discounts at third-party sellers to lower prices as the cycle runs down.
Intel caughtup to last gen amd, uhh.... this year will be rough for intel when hawk point and strix point will be released
Hawk point is exactly same as Phoenix.
Strix point sale will start after the sale of Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake.
@@HDRPC nope hawk point is different than pheonix and strix point is coming in 2024 before arrow Lake, the strix Halo will be launching alongside arrowlake in 2025
@@abhishekmaurya4665 Amd listed Strix point in late 2024 so availability will be in 2025.
Arrow and Lunar Lake sale will start before Strix point.
@@abhishekmaurya4665 Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake will launch in Q4 2024. Now Intel don't have to redesign their architecture. Tiles architecture will remain same.
@@abhishekmaurya4665 go and watch Hardware canucks video of Ryzen 8000. He said not a single change in CPU core, clock, not a single change in iGPU.
Just a new NPU.
"It's not gonna be a good user experience"-Yeah, it already says "Acer" on the lid. No surprises. 😎
I think people should wait for an XPS laptop on this processor. That will be something like Macbook.
Yes. Photoshop is limited by RAM otherwise. ULTRA 7 155H will beat M3.
This Acer laptops need 32GB for Photoshop or any Adobe app.
Notebookcheck tested a variant of the Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake with 32 GB
@@HDRPC@RaviVerma-lx5vk True, but Apple gets OTT flack for lower performance with less RAM, and yet we see the reality that the Macs, in fact, perform extraordinarily well when compared to similar RAM spec Windows machines.
@@andyH_England this is the only generation of M3 when they introduced dynamic caching so yes.
Great
Please, take a look at Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 14APH8
(14" 2880x1800 IPS 120Hz
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
AMD Radeon 780M
32 GB LPDDR5x-SDRAM 6400 MHz
1TB SSD M.2
Windows 11 Pro)
yours phone cost above $1000. it has less volume of materials. it is more expensive and smaller.
No sound from my side
Acer laptops are just a waste of money. I had Acer Nitro 5 (2021), and the motherboard got short circuited. They use low quality components.
5:03 My sister thinks all of those "fancy" laptops like the HP Spectre look ridiculous. She really does like those "bland" laptops and doesn't like really "exotic" designed laptops.
Not everybody likes laptops that stand out.
Doesn't need to be fancy or exotic but it looks like the same laptop from 2012. Some small design improvements would go a long way!
@@MatthewMonizFair enough, although that's why many people like gaming laptops that don't look like gaming laptops, like Lenovo Legions before this year, recent HP gaming laptops, and Razer laptops, which is where the market is moving to.
For $999, I think the design is okay. The below average build quality, microphone, and display are much bigger problems imo.
pog
I think u r not acer fan
BUFF/NERF 😂💀
For that price I would rather get the framework 13
100% agree, plus you can probably swap out the framework's processor in the future if you really want to with the new processor lines. Although I'd really just stick with AMD for windows laptps across the board right now...
@@Ceredron Yes Amd is the one to have right now
Pls tell me where you can get a prebuilt Framework 13 with 16 GB RAM, 1TB storage, and Windows for $999
@@Workaholic42 You would need to get the DIY edition to get it for 1000,I got mine for about 1100euros but I think it's a bit cheaper in the US
ACER: Atrocious Clunky Electronic Relic
1100 EUR for that shit;............NO TY
I need ASUS to shove this CPU in an Zephyrus G14 in 2024! The battery life from these look phenomenal!
Stay tuned :P
Hp omen transcend 14 is looking better package.
Another Apple advertisement disguised as an Acer review. Same old, same old.
How??
If you have ever used a MacBook for a longer period you will understand that it is far superior to Windows. But Windows has a natural monopoly with many people reluctant to try anything else, and they do not have the pleasure of using a superior device.
@@andyH_Englandno
@@andyH_Englandyour opinion sucks ngl because the reason you started liking Mac more than Windows is not that Mac is superior rather you became used to MacBook's limitations of lesser content, windows on the other hand, is much superior in that field and is much capable.
But not worth $999/$899. Wait one year and it's going to be $200 off
It's 599 on Amazon now
Ewww 1080p 60hz ips. Get lost.
Basically bad in every way, not worth the price
How?
Coz its a few steps behind AMD watch the video intel is close to AMD but not competative... @@KP21530
Exactly. Not even the homeless would be caught using an Acer. 😅
No specific reason why, you only said it's bad. I won't strongly agree to your statement. It lacks something we really need to know why you think that.
@rionvalet Whether you strongly or don't agree whatsoever, doesn't change the fact that it's absolute garbage. 🤣
you are an apple fan boy! very bad review mister
Or you're an Apple hater? I like to show how things perform across the spectrum instead of just Intel and AMD. Context is important
Dude, he's literally comparing CPU's between 14 inch laptops. Macbook's happen to fit that category, what the hell are you talking about 😂
Once he said Intel, I immediately stopped watching.
So... Bascially get a system with an AMD Ryzen 8040 or 7040 CPU. That's the point of Meteor Lake. Just buy an AMD system instead of Intel.
Problem is stock on AMD is always low or non existent they dont have the production capacity that Intel has and now that the Intel laptops perform just as well it will be a good thing for anyone picking up a laptop.
@MatthewMoniz That isn't really true anymore. Framework literally has laptops available to ship with both Intel 13th gen U and AMD Ryzen 7040 U and everybody is recommending the Ryzen CPUs because they're just objectively better at 15 watts or so that Intel.
Literally the only thing preventing the 16 inch Framework Laptop from shipping is a power adapter problem and chirping fans, and that also uses AMD Ryzen 7040 CPUs, but this time their HS series, which also beats Intel H series in terms of efficiency. Which, you know, is why people buy thin and light laptops.
The stock issue was worse at the start of the year; it's far better now. Now it's just brands disrespecting the consumer by NOW offering very few options (mostly Intel) when stock has clearly returned to normal.
Meteor Lake is a step in the right direction in terms of GPU performance and efficiency, but a step in the wrong direction in terms of IPC, hence the lower single core performance. If next year's Intel Arrow Lake doesn't fix the IPC issues or make serious gains in terms of efficiency, I would seriously hope more brand use AMD Ryzen or else the PC market will collapse.
@@MatthewMoniz true, somehow my local distributor doesn't have any 7040U laptop in distribution for a long time
@@cameronbosch1213 Framework has a VERY small amount of customers. They are not really a good example. But I've spoken to 3 different OEMs and they all have the same issue with AMD supply. It's one out of a few other reasons they push Intel over AMD.
@@MatthewMoniz And that's why the PC market will collapse if Intel keeps screwing up. Consumers want AMD.
Also, a very small amount of customers? Try saying that in 5 years...
Not good enough, try harder, Intel.
Hp pavilion Plus 14 (68 Wh) with #AMD 7840U has 10 to 11 hours of BATTERY.
Hp spectre x360 14 (68 Wh) with #Intel Core ULTRA 7 155H has 14 to 15 hours of BATTERY. 😱
Intel laptops BATTERY life is as good as MacBook M2/M3 even though Intel is using Tiles/Chiplet.
Impressive🤯
"Hardware Canucks" preproduction unit review of Zenbook 14 with ULTRA 7 155H. It is the FASTEST video editing machine even ar 25 Watt total SoC power limit and way better than any AMD 4nm/5nm APU.
Even Hawk Point is enough for this Mediocre Lake let alone Strix series which prolly will decimate it 😂😂