Acer Swift Go 14 (SFG14-71) review – OLED is becoming mainstream

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

Evidently, the Swift Go 14 (SFG14-71) performs worse than the two gaming laptops we’ve tested with this CPU. However, we can say that for a 14-incher that weighs 1.25 kg, it does a decent job at cooling the Core i7-13700H.

Comfort during full load

Well, the entire chassis gets warm during extreme workloads, and the fans can become a little too loud for comfort.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with the 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. This device’s 65Wh battery pack lasts for 11 hours and 29 minutes of Web browsing, or 10 hours of video playback.

Video playback

Brightness: 180 nits; Display Mode: SDR
Time to Full Discharge: Higher is Better

Acer Swift Go 14 65Wh

9h 30m

Acer Swift 3

8h 42m-8.4%

ASUS Zenbook 14X 63Wh, 3-cell

7h 34m-20.4%

MSI Prestige 14 53.8Wh, 3-cell

7h 36m-20%

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14 56.5Wh

5h 42m-40%

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro X 70Wh

9h 30m

Dell Latitude 7430 58Wh, 4-cell

7h 47m-18.1%

Web surfing

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.

Acer Swift Go 14 65Wh

11h 29m

Acer Swift 3

14h 17m+24.4%

ASUS Zenbook 14X 63Wh, 3-cell

11h 07m-3.2%

MSI Prestige 14 53.8Wh, 3-cell

9h 49m-14.5%

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14 56.5Wh

6h 05m-47%

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro X 70Wh

9h 05m-20.9%

Dell Latitude 7430 58Wh, 4-cell

9h 10m-20.2%

Author: Alex Iliev

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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Todd

3 years ago

Does the 16″ OLED panel have the same performance characteristics and image quality? Is it comparable to the 14″?

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