Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G)
To see a laptop like the Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G), which features this hardware and portability level, is insane. The way technology has progressed in the last couple of years is mind-blowing.
Who would have thought that a laptop that is less than 1.40 kg heavy would be able to pack a Ryzen 7 5800U and an RTX 3050 Ti? The combination is both very potent and a huge gamble, as now Acer has to deal with cooling them both down while not having a lot of room to work with.
Today we present you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G).
Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G): Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G)
1. Design and build quality
The near all-metal design feels amazing to touch, while also making the device look very good. The body has a stylish two-tone finish, with our unit receiving a golden lid with a silvery base. There is a small Acer wordmark in the center of the lid, with this being the only branding on the laptop. The lid also has a leverage mechanism, which lifts up the rear of the laptop, giving the fans more room to breathe. The laptop is quite sturdy and didn’t bend that much when we tried to twist it.
2. Display quality
The laptop has a single IPS display option, but it is very good. It has a 14-inch diagonal and a Full HD resolution. The panel has comfortable viewing angles, a max brightness of 376 nits in the middle of the screen, 372 nits as an average for the entire area of the display, and a maximum deviation of 6%. The contrast ratio is also very high – 1890:1. The laptop also covers 97% of the sRGB color gamut.
The color coverage didn’t match the standard with the factory settings, but after we applied our Design and Gaming profile, the dE value went down to 1.0, which is within the standard.
Here are the results with the default settings (left), and with the Design and Gaming profile applied (right).
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Office Work
Office Work is voornamelijk bedoeld voor gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van teksten, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel streeft naar een betere onderscheidbaarheid en helderheid door een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren te behouden.
Design and Gaming
Dit profiel is bedoeld voor ontwerpers die professioneel met kleuren werken, maar ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming haalt het uiterste uit beeldschermen, waardoor ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk zijn in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 norm voor Web en HDTV, met witpunt D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulsbreedtemodulatie (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en lichaam beïnvloedt. Omdat het op maat gemaakt is voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel accuraat te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.
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3. Battery life
The laptop has a spectacular battery life, despite having a medium-sized 59Wh battery unit. The battery lasted for 15 hours and 11 minutes of Web browsing, and 11 hours and 48 minutes of video playback. Now, we conduct the battery tests with Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.
4. Performance
The laptop offers a lot of power under its small hood, coming equipped with the Ryzen 7 5800U and the RTX 3050 with the RTX 3050 Ti also being available.
CPU benchmarks
De resultaten zijn afkomstig van de Cinebench R23 CPU-test (hoe hoger de score, hoe beter)
GPU benchmarks
De resultaten zijn van 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics). Hoger is beter.
De resultaten zijn van de 3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (hoe hoger de score, hoe beter)
De resultaten zijn van de Unigine Superposition benchmark (hoe hoger de score, hoe beter)
1 reason NOT to buy the Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G)
1. Upgradeability
The laptop offers a tiny bit of upgradeability, with only two M.2 PCIe x4 drives. The memory here is soldered and the laptop comes with either 8GB or 16GB of DDR4 RAM.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to get access to the SSD slots.
All Acer Swift X (SFX14-41G) configurations:
Author: Severin Kolakov
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