Acer’s 14-inch laptops claim 24 hours of battery life from Intel, Qualcomm, or AMD

At IFA today, Acer announced it’s expanding its Swift AI laptop enactment with models featuring Intel’s new Lunar Lake chips, Qualcomm’s just-announced eight-core Snapdragon X Plus and AMD’s Ryzen AI 300. And, it claims, each of them tin theoretically past implicit 24 hours playing backmost video, oregon implicit 17 hours successful productivity tests.

If you bargain them with their IPS panels and 65 watt-hour batteries, Acer claims the caller $1,199 Swift 14 AI and $999 Swift 14 Go AI tin last:

Those sorts of quotes aren’t antithetic successful precocious 2024! Dell conscionable boasted its XPS 13 can get 26 to 27 hours of Netflix streaming with a caller Intel oregon Qualcomm chip, and we expect real-world beingness to beryllium less. But it’s much than these manufacturers person typically claimed successful years past.

Just enactment that though Acer’s caller laptops are each called “Swift 14,” they aren’t quite the same.

Swift 14 AI

The 14-inch Swift AI tin beryllium configured with either a caller Intel Core Ultra 5 oregon 7 processor (model SF14-51), oregon an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 spot (model SF14-61).

Both optionally connection premium OLED screens alternatively of the IPS screen, and enactment up to 32GB of RAM, but the Intel exemplary has 3K oregon 2K OLED options astatine 90Hz and a 2K IPS screen, portion the AMD exemplary lone has a 3K OLED surface alongside 3K 120Hz and 2K IPS options.

The AMD exemplary tin besides beryllium configured with up to 2TB of retention space, portion the Intel exemplary lone gets a maximum of 1TB. And portion some laptops connection 2 USB-C ports, the Intel exemplary gets Thunderbolt 4 ports arsenic accustomed portion the AMD 1 has generic USB4 — though some sets let for charging. Both besides person 2 USB-A 3.2 ports, an audio jack, an HDMI 2.1 port, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4.

All person a 1440p webcam, with IR extent sensing for Windows Hello facial designation login, a privateness shutter, and proximity sensors to fastener the surface erstwhile you determination away.

Both Swift 14 AI laptops commencement astatine $1,200 and should beryllium disposable this month.

Swift Go 14 AI

If you’re looking for Qualcomm Snapdragon and a little starting price, that’s wherever Acer’s Swift Go comes in. The 2.91-pound laptop besides has a somewhat larger 14.5-inch screen, your prime betwixt a 2560 x 1600 IPS sheet with a maximum brightness of 350 nits, oregon a 1920 x 1200 that maxes retired astatine 300 nits. Both are dimmer than the Intel and AMD options, but they bash enactment up to 120Hz refresh rate.

Otherwise, the Go likewise offers up to 32GB of RAM, has a 1440p webcam with IR extent sensing and a privateness shutter arsenic good arsenic fingerprint reader, 2 USB4 benignant C ports that enactment charging, 2 USB-A 3.2 ports, an audio jack, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4.

The caller Swift Go 14 AI starts astatine $999 and should beryllium disposable this month. 

Swift 16 AI

Acer is besides announcing a 16-inch exemplary too, 1 that weighs 3.3 pounds and is lone disposable with a caller Intel Lunar Lake processor, either a Core Ultra 5, 7, oregon 9. You get up to 2TB of retention abstraction and lone 1 show option: a 3K touchscreen OLED. All of that is powered by a 75Wh battery, though present Acer is notably not quoting its artillery life.

There are besides 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports for charging and show output, 2 USB-A ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, an audio jack, a Wi-Fi 7 adapter, and Bluetooth 5.4.

Acer’s Swift 16 AI starts astatine $1,200, conscionable similar the 14-inch model, and should beryllium disposable successful October 2024.

By the way: Acer’s caller Intel and AMD-configured Swift AI laptops volition join the Copilot Plus PC household successful November 2024 via a escaped update, giving users entree to the aforesaid Microsoft AI features presently lone disposable connected Qualcomm Snapdragon X PCs.