Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop
Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021.
Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air’s thinness and lightness — and in the process, it cops another laptop’s name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring as little as 0.51 inches / 12.95mm thin. That’s around 1.7mm thicker than Apple’s svelte 13-inch MacBook Air, but Acer’s Blade is nearly a pound lighter. Its featherweight stature is partly due to Acer using carbon fiber in the laptop’s top lid and bottom plate.
Inside the Swift Blade will be a range of Intel Wildcat Lake processors, from the lowly five-core Core 3 304 that...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to theverge.com. To see the full text click HERE
