Acer Swift 3 SF314-511 [SF314-511-76PP] (NX.ACWER.005)

Stylish mid-range ultrabook in a metal case

Acer Swift 3 SF314-511 is a stylish mid-range ultrabook with an excellent balance between price, quality, performance and features. For a little less than a thousand dollars, a potential buyer of the Swift 5 will have at their disposal a fairly thin and light device in a solid aluminium case with a performant hardware, a capacious battery and advanced equipment.

Handsome and reliable

The design of the model combines the rigor of business laptops with the elegance of ultrabooks: a light and thin case made of brushed aluminium, strict colours, and a minimum of decorative elements. It weighs a little more than a kilogram, and the thickness of the case is only 16 mm. Carrying such a baby with you is a pleasure. In terms of build quality, this is a reliable and durable laptop with no frills. The screen is fixed on strong hinges, the keyboard and the central places of the case are practically not pressed through, it will be difficult to accidentally damage it in a bag.

8-thread processor and high-speed RAM

Despite the miniature size, Acer engineers did not look for simple ways and stuffed it well. The heart of the laptop is an 11th generation 8-thread Core i7, which is complemented by 16 GB of RAM and a traditional 512 GB NVMe SSD for modern ultrabooks. Interestingly, Acer engineers preferred the energy-efficient LPDDR4 memory to the classic DDR4 memory, which was also overclocked to 4266 MHz. The picture is completed by a moderately performant integrated graphics card Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs, which is quite capable of playing online CSGO, Valoran and Titanfall 2.

Equipment with the latest technology

In addition to sensible internal equipment, the laptop is equipped with the latest fashion. For example, at the end there is a brand new USB4 port with Thunderbolt 4 interface support, fast charging and the ability to connect an external monitor. The motherboard works on the PCI-E 4.0 bus, which allows you to install a hyper-speed SSD with support for this bus. Communication modules are friends with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 standards, and the built-in sound card is friends with DTS. For a mid-range device costing just under a thousand dollars, this is excellent equipment. And what's even cooler, he has no weak points at all. In previous versions of Swift, the fingerprint scanner was buggy, but here there was no such problem. In general, there is an unequivocal medal, we recommend!