![]() The RAM is soldered to the motherboard and there’s no second SSD mount. Getting inside the Swift Go is a simple operation but, once you’ve removed the base, all you can do is upgrade the SSD and wireless card. ![]() Like most Acer laptops, the bottom of the lid acts as a cantilever when you open it, lifting the back of the laptop up by a few millimetres to improve typing angle and air circulation. Give it a twist and there’s only a minor amount of flex in the lid and a similarly small amount of give in the middle of the keyboard deck if you press down hard. And it’s available in rose gold/beige and dark grey for those who want something different from the usual boring silver. In fact, it looks much like the old Swift 3 and the aluminium unibody construction is much the same, too. The Swift Go isn’t much of a looker compared to the competition from Asus and Apple or even the dowdier Samsung. READ NEXT: The best laptop deals Acer Swift Go 14 review: Design and build quality The upscale aesthetics are matched by a superb 14.5in 2.8K OLED touchscreen and a very competent speaker system. The Inkwell Grey version looks good but the Sandstone Beige model is an absolute stunner. The award for the most stylish 14in compact has to go to the new Asus Zenbook 14X OLED. Paying £849 will get you a more powerful Ryzen 7 7730U chip, 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. When it goes on sale in July, the Acer Swift Go 14 range will start at £699 for the model with a 16:9 Full HD IPS panel, an AMD Ryzen 7 7530U CPU, 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. READ NEXT: The best laptops Acer Swift Go 14 review: Price and competitionĬonfiguration tested: Intel Core i7-13700H CPU, Intel Iris Xe iGPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 14in, 90Hz, 2,880 x 1,800 OLED non-touchscreen. ![]() There are also some more peripheral upgrades here, though, like the webcam, which jumps from 1080p to 1440p, and the preinstallation of Intel’s new Unison smartphone integration software, which seems to be destined to become part of the Intel Evo standard.Īcer has resisted the temptation to go for a radical design overhaul, presumably in the name of economy, and this brings us to what is, arguably, the most interesting thing about the Swift Go 14: it’s cheaper than the Swift 3 OLED. If you were to think of the Go 14 as a Swift 3 with a different shape display and a 13th Gen rather than a 12th Gen Intel processor you wouldn’t be far off the mark. The Swift Go 14 in effect replaces the highly regarded Acer Swift 3 OLED which is currently one of our favourite ultra compacts at Expert Reviews. It combines a 1TB SSD, 16GB of RAM and a high-end 13th Gen Core i7 CPU with a very nice OLED display and costs less than £1,000.Īcer Swift Go 14 review: What you need to know You can, of course, pick up a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro for considerably less than that but you’ll have to compromise on the specification. All the major PC manufacturers make them and most are very desirable machines with price tags well north of £1,500. ![]() If you want an ultra-compact laptop with a high-end OLED display you need to be prepared to dig deep into your bank account. ![]()
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