Acer unveiled a pair of AMD Ryzen 8040 collection laptops on Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, given their chips’ devoted neural processing items (NPU), the corporate is advertising and marketing the 2024 Acer Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 as AI workhorses. The Home windows 11 machines assist OLED shows, Radeon 780M graphics and 32GB of RAM.
The Ryzen 8040 chip series, revealed in December, has a devoted AI Engine that AMD claims makes it as much as 1.4 instances quicker than its predecessors in Llama 2 and AI imaginative and prescient mannequin efficiency. Acer says the Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 will deploy the NPU for AI-related duties like PurifiedVoice (take away background noise in calls and recordings) and PurifiedView (blurring backgrounds in pictures and correcting your eyes’ positioning on video calls).
Like most new Home windows machines (together with Acer’s models launched at CES 2024), the laptops have a dedicated Microsoft Copilot button on their keyboards for fast ChatGPT-like AI queries. (Copilot faucets into Microsoft and OpenAI’s servers via the cloud quite than utilizing the machines’ on-device NPU.)
Each machines’ AMD chips embrace Microsoft’s Pluton security co-processor. Launched in 2020 via a partnership with AMD and Intel, it bakes safety straight into the processor, serving to shield your credentials, encryption keys and private information from hackers.
Acer Swift Edge 16
Acer markets the Acer Swift Edge 16 as optimizing efficiency with out sacrificing portability. All gadget variants have a 16-inch OLED panel with WQXGA (3200 x 2000) decision and a 120Hz body charge with lower than a 0.2ms response time. It helps 100% of the DCI-P3 coloration gamut and VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification for (what ought to be) correct and nuanced visuals.
The laptop computer’s Ryzen 7 8840U processor is joined by AMD Radeon 780M built-in graphics. The pocket book has as much as 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD storage. Relying in your configuration, it helps Wi-Fi 7 or Wi-Fi 6E.
The Swift Edge 16 weighs 2.71 lbs and is 12.95mm tall. It’s encased in a magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis and has a 54 Wh battery. It contains two USB-C ports (with USB4 speeds of as much as 40Gbps), two USB-A, one HDMI 2.1 and a microSD slot.
Acer Swift Go 14
The smaller of the pair, the Acer Swift Go 14, has as much as an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS octa-core processor with AMD Radeon 780M graphics. (Cheaper configurations will commerce that for a Ryzen 7 8845HS or Ryzen 5 8645HS.) The machine maxes out at 32GB LPDDR5X RAM and as much as 2TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD.
The highest-shelf 14-inch variant may have a WQXGA (2880×1800) OLED show with a 90Hz refresh charge. One other model will swap that for a 1920 x 1200 IPS panel with touchscreen capabilities. The gadget’s hinge can prolong to 180 levels, and its glass trackpad is 44 % bigger than the earlier mannequin’s. It helps Wi-Fi 6E.
Because of its smaller footprint, Acer markets the Swift Go 14 because the extra transportable model. Nonetheless, it’s about seven % heavier than its 16-inch counterpart — at 2.91 lbs. It ships in configurations with both a 65 or 50 Wh battery.
Each fashions have 1440p QHD webcams, though solely the Swift Go 14 is listed as having a privateness shutter. The smaller mannequin is lighter on ports than the 16-inch mannequin, forgoing the pair of USB-A connections within the bigger one. The Swift Go 14 has two USB-C ports (each supporting USB4 speeds), an HDMI 2.1 connector and a microSD slot.
Pricing and availability
The Swift Edge 16 launches in March in North America, beginning at $1,300. In the meantime, the Swift Go 14 follows in April, beginning at $700. Other than their entry-level fashions, Acer hasn’t but detailed how pricing will break down throughout varied configurations.
Trending Merchandise
