Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) - Specs

  • AUO B140HAN04.0 (AUO403D)
  • Color accuracy  3.8  3.7
  • HDD/SSD
  • up to 2000GB SSD
  • RAM
  • up to 20GB
  • OS
  • Windows 11 Home, Windows 10 Home, Windows 11 Pro, Windows 10 Pro
  • Battery
  • 48Wh, 3-cell
  • Body material
  • Aluminum, Magnesium alloy
  • Dimensions
  • 323.4 x 218.9 x 17.9 mm (12.73" x 8.62" x 0.70")
  • Weight
  • 1.20 kg (2.6 lbs)
  • Ports and connectivity
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 2.0
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps)
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ax
  • Bluetooth
  • 5.0
  • Audio jack
  • 3.5 mm combo
  • Features
  • Fingerprint reader
  • optional
  • Web camera
  • HD
  • Backlit keyboard
  • optional
  • Microphone
  • 2 Microphones
  • Speakers
  • Optical drive
  • Security Lock slot
  • Kensington lock

All Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) configurations

#CommissionsEarned

 

Buy our profiles for AUO B140HAN04.0 (AUO403D) / 14.0”, Full HD (1920 x 1080), IPS

In addition to receiving efficient and health-friendly profiles, by buying LaptopMedia's products you also support the development of our labs, where we test devices in order to produce the most objective reviews possible.

Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

Get all 3 profiles with 33% discount

CPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) series.

GPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) series.

Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) in-depth review

Guys, if you are interested in thin and light notebooks, one of the decent choices on the market would be the Swift 3 series of Acer. Provided you want to buy such a device, you have some choices to make. And the biggest one is - do you go Intel or AMD. If this was happening a couple of months earlier we would have definitely said AMD, since the Ryzen 4000U processors totally annihilated Intel when it comes to ULV processors.However, since Intel released their Tiger Lake chips, which offered a significantly higher CPU and GPU performance than Ice Lake, things no longer stay as such. Yeste[...]

Pros

  • Very cool and quiet under heavy load
  • Reasonably comfortable keyboard with optional backlight
  • Lack of PWM
  • Comfortable viewing angles and good contrast ratio
  • Efficient and powerful mobile Ryzen 4000U chips

Cons

  • Covers only 50% of sRGB
  • Memory is soldered to the motherboard
  • No SD card reader on board

Inside Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) - disassembly and upgrade options

Read our Disassembly Guide

Games you can play on this laptop series