Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop

Acer is announcing a caller laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air’s thinness and lightness — and successful the process, it cops different laptop’s name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to beryllium confused pinch the Razer Blade 14) is simply a productivity instrumentality weighing conscionable 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring arsenic small arsenic 0.51 inches / 12.95mm thin. That’s astir 1.7mm thicker than Apple’s svelte 13-inch MacBook Air, but Acer’s Blade is astir a lb lighter. Its featherweight stature is partially owed to Acer utilizing c fibre successful the laptop’s apical lid and bottommost plate.

Inside the Swift Blade will beryllium a scope of Intel Wildcat Lake processors, from the lowly five-core Core 3 304 that I tested successful the Chuwi UniBook to the six-core Intel Core 7 350. And sloppy of which nonstop spot is inside, the Acer will travel pinch 12GB of RAM. So it’s not apt that the Acer will spell toe-to-toe pinch the MacBook Air’s M5 spot successful position of earthy performance, but it could make a compelling lawsuit for personification who prefers their laptop to beryllium astir arsenic ray arsenic they come.

The Swift Blade will travel pinch a basal 1920 x 1200 / 60Hz IPS LCD surface pinch conscionable 300 nits of brightness, but location will beryllium a mates of OLED options arsenic good (up to 2880 x 1800 / 90Hz and 400 nits). The OLED versions make the chassis ever-so-slightly thicker. And the laptop will person 3 USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 ports (one of which will beryllium data-only) and a 3.5mm audio jack. Acer isn’t sharing pricing for immoderate configurations of the Swift Blade 14 until person to its December launch.

It’s the aforesaid communicative for the different Swift laptop Acer is announcing today: the Swift Air 16. This is simply a larger type of the Swift Air 14 announced astatine Computex. Despite being named Air, the Swift Air 14 was aimed squarely astatine the MacBook Neo — particularly pinch its value of $699. While we don’t cognize yet what the Swift Air 16 will cost, we cognize it’ll connection akin Intel Wildcat Lake chips, Thunderbolt 4 ports, options for OLED screens, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 512GB of NVMe storage. It’s not arsenic ray arsenic the Swift Blade 14, but astatine 0.53 inches / 13.5mm heavy and 3.31 pounds / 1.5kg, the Swift Air 16 sounds beautiful ray and bladed for a 16-inch. It’s owed to get successful North America successful Q1 2027 and different regions this December.