Deal | 2026 Acer OLED laptop with 32 GB RAM, latest Intel CPU drops 42% to under $1,000

It seems the era of sub-$1,000 multimedia laptops that feature all the essentials is quickly coming to an end. Apple has also succumbed to rising memory and storage price inflation, which paints a pretty bad picture for Windows laptop OEMs. So, it looks likely that, moving forward, you’ll have to spend much more than $1,000 to get a reasonably decent Windows laptop. Fortunately, that time has not yet come for every notebook, as Best Buy is selling the latest Acer Swift Go 16 AI (2026) for just $900.

Retailing at an amazing 42% discount, the Acer Swift Go 16 AI (2026) on sale packs an Intel Core Ultra 7 355, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB of storage, and a 16-inch 1200p OLED display with touch support. A different configuration of the Swift Go 16 AI with a Core Ultra 5 322, 16 GB RAM, and 512 GB of storage was discounted in early June to $699.99. So, you are paying $200 more for double the RAM/storage and a faster CPU.

Moreover, the Acer Swift Go 16 AI (2026) features a mix of two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two Type-A ports, one HDMI out, and a headphone jack. There is no microSD or a full-sized SD card reader. This is a peculiar omission, as the OLED display covers 100% DCI-P3 and is perfectly suitable for content editing. So, we advise getting a separate SD card reader from Amazon.

Finally, powering the Acer Swift Go 16 AI (2026) is a respectably sized 71 Wh battery. The Core Ultra 7 355 is an 8-core Panther Lake chip that is meant to deliver good performance without using a ton of power. So, you can expect a long battery life. Acer advertises more than 20 hours of video playback.

Our testing of the Core Ultra 7 355 puts it at the same level as the older Core i7-1370P. This means that the CPU is powerful enough to handle tasks ranging from simple web browsing to moderately heavy workloads without slowing down.