Acer Swift 3 Thin & Light Laptop | 14 Full HD IPS 100% sRGB Display | AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Octa-Core Processor | 8GB LPDDR4X | 512GB NVMe SSD | WiFi 6 | Backlit KB | FPR | Amazon Alexa | SF314-43-R2YY

This is a paper weight out of the box. Started by shutting down while working and now won’t do anything. The company wants refurbish w/mother board instead of replacing. This is after about 2 months of using, purchase date was Sept 24th.

An excellent PC laptop at this price. However, two omissions, one truly frustrating, prevents a top rating. Most aggravating: no hardware indication that CAPS LOCK is on! No indicator light. You find out when your repeated password entry attempts fail! Acer thought that a software-based symbol that flashes on the screen for one second would be sufficient. Not only does that not take into account not noticing in time, or forgetting, but it doesnt even work. It did when I first launched the computer, then never again. Tech support guided me to installing something, which brought it back, not not after the next time I started up. My solution is to keep Note Pad on standby to test the keys before entering anything that is case sensitive. I become angry every time!

This laptop has a great processor held back by the bare minimum amount of RAM (with no upgradable storage) with a sticky trackpad (and a meh screen, but its acceptable at this price point).

Acer put together a nice little 14” laptop in the Swift 3. The brushed aluminum chassis is compact and lightweight, rivaling the weight and form factor of my 11-inch Chromebook. The IPS display has good brightness, color depth, contrast and the matte finish helps greatly reduce glare. The FHD resolution is plenty sharp at this size and looks sharper, more crisp and more vivid than many larger screens running at the same 1920 X 1080 resolution. Display integrity is also good with no backlight bleeding, bad pixels or other observable faults. It is not a touchscreen, much to my delight. The primary internal components include a Ryzen 7 CPU, 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM, Radeon Vega 8 GPU and a 512GB NVMe drive. This hardware config provides the Swift with snappy performance that excels at multi-tasking. The Swift 3 can easily accommodate numerous running applications and open browser tabs simultaneously as well as light gaming and light to moderate photo/video editing. Wireless performance also works well. The internal Wifi and Bluetooth adapters connect quickly and reliably and maintain a stable connection with my WiFi 6 router and Bluetooth devices. I use a Bluetooth mouse with the Swift regularly and have yet to experience a dropped connection. Battery life is good and I can get a full day of non-continuous use for productivity tasks. Obviously, mileage will vary depending on usage. Fan noise is non-existent during most basic desktop use and only really appears when the system is heavily taxed.

Nice medium price laptop

The Mac I was using was old and I decided against buying another when they changed the port sizes. I was looking for something similar, and this Acer has been great so far. Its light, bright, fast and has very good battery life. My last Acer never died. It lasted over 10 years and just became obsolete. I hope they are still building computers with that sort of quality.

This is a wonderful laptop within the budget, especially for students with a good processor .it comes with the Ryzen 7 5000 series in a reasonable price.

Got it today and so far it runs fast and downloads quick have yet too push the limits but it run everything like butter.

Ran for a few weeks pretty well than blue screen of death on a loop .... never had this issue on a PC in my life ... I hate it .... stay away!!!

We have an earlier version that works well. This one kept freezing up and had to be hard rebooted. We returned the laptop with no issues. Good company. May just be a one off.