Acer Swift 1 SF113 Series

Processor: Intel Celeron Celeron N3350, Intel Celeron N3060, Intel Pentium N3710, Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell), Intel HD Graphics 405 (Braswell), Intel HD Graphics 500, Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 14.00 inch
Weight: 1.3kg, 1.351kg, 1.4kg, 1.6kg
Price: 300, 399, 579, 600 euro
price: 40%, performance: 57%, features: 50%, display: 71%, mobility: 85%, workmanship: 79%, ergonomy: 83%, emissions: 96%

 

Acer Swift 1 SF114-31-P6F6

While Core i and Core m processors are great not everyone can afford them. With that said it is also common for the unsung heroes of the CPU market space to be the real market movers here. One of them being the Acer Swift 1, its main competition being chromebooks which are great for internet surfing. Starting with its specs the Acer Swift 1 sports an Intel Pentium N3710 processor, 4 GB of memory and 128 GB of eMMC flash, that’s right not your standard SSD based storage that we’ve all become used to. So, how does this platform stackup? The Acer Swift 1 chassis construction is mainly made out of plastic with some aluminium also being used. While plastic seems synonymous with fragile and inelegant the Acer Swift 1 is actually well built and designed with stylish being a prominent theme here. Once again as this is a budget build, users should not expect much from its IO which is made up of 2 USB type A ports with 1 of the ports being the 3.0 standard. Despite being a budget device Acer should have at least included 1 USB type C port since it is becoming prevalent in most new notebooks. Next in line would be the user input. The Swift 1 has your standard chiclet based keyboard which the keys are decently sized, just like the Acer Spin series the keycaps are also roughly textured which helps with finger grip. In terms of keystrokes, it remains shallow but with a clear pressure point for feedback which should satisfy typists even when typing for long periods. One downside of this keyboard however is the lack of a backlight although this isn’t really a deal breaker. Nonetheless having it included would have been great. Going along to the touchpad the included touchpad is large and roomy enough without resorting to a mouse in most cases along with its smooth textures finger gliding is a pleasant experience. The touchpad also has a clear and well-defined click which is great since most click integrated touchpads seem to either have a mushy feeling. The included LCD panel is a little bit disappointing because of its somewhat low resolution at 1366x768, even its cousin the Acer Spin 1 has an IPS FHD panel. Which is not to say the resolution is not usable but leaves users wanting more. Media playback can be somewhat off a miss with this resolution. In the audio department, the speakers feel disappointing but then again it is to be expected for a notebook of this price bracket. Overall sound quality seems to be on the skinny side with nonexistent bass. This makes having a pair of headphones or external speakers as a must. Finally, with battery life the Acer Swift 1 manages to score 11 hours and 1 minutes on Wi-Fi which is impressive since most of its components are power sippers and not power guzzlers which is somewhat a tradeoff but nonetheless a much needed one. In the end although the Acer Swift 1 may be the lowest performing and cheapest model in its lineup it doesn’t need to cower over its lackluster hardware specs because end of the day it does its job in its targeted market segment. Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF114-31-P6F6
Processor: Intel Pentium N3710
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 405 (Braswell)
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 1.6kg
Price: 399 euro
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Acer Swift 1 SF114-31-C534

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF114-31-C534
Processor: Intel Celeron N3060
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 1.6kg
Links: Acer homepage
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Average Score: 69% - average

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P2CP

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P2CP
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: Acer homepage
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Average Score: 74% - average

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF114-31-C24

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF114-31-C24
Processor: Intel Celeron N3060
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 1.6kg
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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P2CP

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P2CP
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.351kg
Price: 579 euro
Links: Acer homepage
 Acer notebook section

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Average Score: 70% - average

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P63H

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P63H
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: Acer homepage
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Average Score: 78% - good

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P5CK

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P5CK
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 300 euro
Links: Acer homepage
 Acer notebook section

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Average Score: 74.17% - average

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P3P0

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P3P0
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.3kg
Links: Acer homepage
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Average Score: 70% - average

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P56D

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P56D
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Links: Acer homepage
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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P72F

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-P72F
Processor: Intel Pentium Pentium N4200
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 505
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.3kg
Links: Acer homepage
 Acer notebook section

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Average Score: 60% - poor

 

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Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-C5CE

Specifications

Notebook: Acer Swift 1 SF113-31-C5CE
Processor: Intel Celeron Celeron N3350
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 500
Display: 13.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.3kg
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Acer: In 1976, the company was founded in Taiwan under the name Multitech and was renamed Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors, TVs and computer peripherals. Since 2007, the group has merged with Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell, which also market their own laptop product lines.

Acer computers are designed for a variety of purposes, including ultrabooks for mobile use, gaming laptops for gamers, affordable options for everyday tasks, and 2-in-1 convertible laptops for versatility. Acer's product portfolio also includes tablets that offer portable computing and multimedia capabilities.

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Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.

Intel HD Graphics 405 (Braswell): Integrated graphics card in the Intel Braswell series (2016 Pentium) processors. Based on the Broadwell architecture (Intel Gen8) supporting DirectX 11.2. Depending on the processor offers 16 shader cores (EU) and different clock speed.

Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell): Integrated graphics card in the Intel Braswell series (2016 Celeron) processors. Based on the Broadwell architecture (Intel Gen8) supporting DirectX 11.2. Depending on the processor offers 12 shader cores (EU) and different clock speeds.

Intel HD Graphics 505: Integrated low-end graphics adapter with DirectX 12 support, which can be found in some ULV SoCs from the Apollo Lake series.

Intel HD Graphics 500: Integrated low-end graphics adapter with DirectX 12 support, which can be found in some ULV SoCs from the Apollo Lake series.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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Intel Pentium:

N3710: Notebook CPU with an integrated quad core Atom processor clocked at 1.1 - 2.56 GHz, an Intel HD Graphics 405 GPU and a dual channel DDR3L-1600 memory controller.

Pentium N4200: An Apollo Lake family, quad-core, ultra-low-power processor (SoC) that saw the light of day in 2016. Its four CPU cores run at 1.1 GHz to 2.5 GHz; these are not Hyper-Threading-enabled meaning there are no additional threads. This chip has a fairly competent integrated graphics solution, the Intel HD Graphics 505, and eats very little (~6 W). The Pentium N4200 is based on the Goldmont CPU microarchitecture that came to replace Silvermont (2013), bringing with it several welcome improvements. The CPU is Secure Boot-compatible; technically, it will have no issue running 64-bit Windows 11. The average N4200 in our database competes with the Core i5-3339Y, a low-power SoC launched in 2013, in multi-thread performance.

Intel Celeron:

N3060: SoC with an integrated dual core Atom processor clocked at 1.6 - 2.48 GHz, an Intel HD Graphics GPU and a dual channel DDR3L-1600 memory controller.

Celeron N3350: An Apollo Lake family, dual-core, ultra-low-power processor (SoC) that saw the light of day in 2016. Its two cores run at 1.1 GHz to 2.4 GHz; these are not Hyper-Threading-enabled meaning there are no additional threads. This chip has a fairly competent integrated graphics solution, the Intel HD Graphics 500, and eats very little (~6 W). The Celeron N3350 is based on the Goldmont CPU microarchitecture that came to replace Silvermont (2013), bringing with it several welcome improvements. The CPU is Secure Boot-compatible; technically, it will have no issue running 64-bit Windows 11. The average N3350 in our database is just as fast as the venerable Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 is in multi-thread loads; the two cores of this Celeron trail behind a single core of any half-decent CPU such as the Intel Core i3-7130U.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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14.00:

14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact. 

In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers. 

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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72.51%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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