Acer Swift 16 AI SF16-51, Ultra 7 256V
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Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
Reviews for the Acer Swift 16 AI SF16-51, Ultra 7 256V
Source: PC Mag
Despite its subpar speakers, the Swift 16 AI delivers much to admire, particularly its OLED touch screen and long battery life. Paired with its Intel Core Ultra 2 V-class CPU, this laptop is well-suited to casual entertainment and light content creation. However, a compromised keyboard layout makes it less than ideal for productivity. The touted AI features also aren't that noteworthy, but this is more of a reflection on Copilot+ laptops in general. Where this Acer shines is its value, especially if it's on sale for $849.99, as it was during the review period. Even at its regular price, the Swift 16 AI punches above its weight, providing many of the features of more expensive laptops for less. You can get a sharper screen and a level of raw power more appropriate for a 16-inch laptop out of the MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo, but don't spurn this Swift if your budget is tighter.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/10/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC World
Like its smaller incarnation, the Acer Swift 16 AI is a competent laptop for all your general computing and productivity needs. Acer is trying as hard as any OEM to justify the AI hype with features like Acer Assist. However, even all this effort does not guarantee a good AI experience. Microsoft’s Copilot+ features are still barely there in Windows 11. Beyond all the marketing, the Acer Swift 16 AI is fast enough for almost everyone with a Core Ultra 7, but I wish Acer made this laptop in a Core Ultra 9 variant. Even then, the machine’s multithreaded performance would be lacking. If you’re going to be editing video, an AMD-based machine is your best bet right now. While this laptop shares a lot with the 14-inch Acer AI PC, it looks nicer.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/04/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: CNet
The Swift 16 is overqualified as a productivity machine and lacking as an entertainment laptop due mainly to its subpar speakers (though the integrated graphics mean it's not an option for high-performance gaming, either). It's best for people looking for a big-screen OLED laptop who don't want to sacrifice portability or affordability. If you're shopping for a 16-inch entertainment laptop, I'd point you toward the pricier HP Spectre x360 16, which delivers on both sides of the AV equation, with much better audio output from its quad speakers to go with its great 16-inch OLED display.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/02/2025
Rating: Total score: 75%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Gizmodo JP
JA→ENPositive: Beautiful AMOLED display; decent battery life; slim size; light weight; nice webcam; smooth performance. Negative: Mediocre speakers.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/11/2024
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Intel Arc 140V: A pretty fast integrated graphics adapter that higher-end Intel Lunar Lake family processors employ. This is a direct successor to the Arc 8; it can drive three SUHD 4320p monitors simultaneously via HDMI 2.1, eDP 1.5 and DP 2.1. With the 140V, all 2023 and 2024 games are playable at 1080p on low graphics settings.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Core Ultra 7 256V: An upper mid-range Lunar Lake family processor. It sports 4 new Skymont E-cores and 4 new Lion Cove P-cores running at up to 3.7 GHz and 4.8 GHz respectively, along with the new Arc 140V iGPU and 16 GB of on-package LPDDR5x-8533 RAM. It essentially matches the Core Ultra 7 165U and Core i7-1360P in multi-thread performance and it eats up to 37 W when under short-term workloads.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.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.
78.33%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
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