Acer Swift 3 SF316 Series

Acer Swift 3 SF316-51

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Average Score: 70% - average

70% Acer Swift 3 review: A big screen on a modest budget
Source: Good Gear Guide
Acer's Swift 3 is all about the screen. It's among the most affordable 16-inch laptops available, rivaled only by Lenovo's 16-inch IdeaPad. Despite this, the Swift 3 delivers a great 1080p screen with a high contrast ratio and accurate color. It's ideal for multi-tasking, watching movies, and streaming shows. Look past the display, however, and the laptop is less exciting. The Intel Core i7-11370H is usually behind AMD's Ryzen 7 in demanding apps, though Intel's Xe integrated do manage a win. Battery life is a problem as well and makes the Swift 3 of limited use for travel despite its slim, sleek profile. This laptop is great for students, writers, accountants, researchers, and anyone else who wants a big screen on a modest budget. If you need multi-threaded performance or battery life, however, consider an AMD alternative.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Acer Swift 3 review: A big screen on a modest budget
Source: PC World Australia
Acer's Swift 3 is all about the screen. It's among the most affordable 16-inch laptops available, rivaled only by Lenovo's 16-inch IdeaPad. Despite this, the Swift 3 delivers a great 1080p screen with a high contrast ratio and accurate color. It's ideal for multi-tasking, watching movies, and streaming shows. Look past the display, however, and the laptop is less exciting. The Intel Core i7-11370H is usually behind AMD's Ryzen 7 in demanding apps, though Intel's Xe integrated do manage a win. Battery life is a problem as well and makes the Swift 3 of limited use for travel despite its slim, sleek profile. This laptop is great for students, writers, accountants, researchers, and anyone else who wants a big screen on a modest budget. If you need multi-threaded performance or battery life, however, consider an AMD alternative.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Acer Swift 3 review: A big screen on a modest budget
Source: PC World
Acer’s Swift 3 is all about the screen. It’s among the most affordable 16-inch laptops available, rivaled only by Lenovo’s 16-inch IdeaPad. Despite this, the Swift 3 delivers a great 1080p screen with a high contrast ratio and accurate color. It’s ideal for multi-tasking, watching movies, and streaming shows. Look past the display, however, and the laptop is less exciting. The Intel Core i7-11370H is usually behind AMD’s Ryzen 7 in demanding apps, though Intel’s Xe integrated do manage a win. Battery life is a problem as well and makes the Swift 3 of limited use for travel despite its slim, sleek profile. This laptop is great for students, writers, accountants, researchers, and anyone else who wants a big screen on a modest budget. If you need multi-threaded performance or battery life, however, consider an AMD alternative.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Acer Swift 3 review: A big screen on a modest budget
Source: Good Gear Guide
Acer's Swift 3 is all about the screen. It's among the most affordable 16-inch laptops available, rivaled only by Lenovo's 16-inch IdeaPad. Despite this, the Swift 3 delivers a great 1080p screen with a high contrast ratio and accurate color. It's ideal for multi-tasking, watching movies, and streaming shows. Look past the display, however, and the laptop is less exciting. The Intel Core i7-11370H is usually behind AMD's Ryzen 7 in demanding apps, though Intel's Xe integrated do manage a win. Battery life is a problem as well and makes the Swift 3 of limited use for travel despite its slim, sleek profile. This laptop is great for students, writers, accountants, researchers, and anyone else who wants a big screen on a modest budget. If you need multi-threaded performance or battery life, however, consider an AMD alternative.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Acer Swift 3 review: A big screen on a modest budget
Source: PC World Australia
Acer's Swift 3 is all about the screen. It's among the most affordable 16-inch laptops available, rivaled only by Lenovo's 16-inch IdeaPad. Despite this, the Swift 3 delivers a great 1080p screen with a high contrast ratio and accurate color. It's ideal for multi-tasking, watching movies, and streaming shows. Look past the display, however, and the laptop is less exciting. The Intel Core i7-11370H is usually behind AMD's Ryzen 7 in demanding apps, though Intel's Xe integrated do manage a win. Battery life is a problem as well and makes the Swift 3 of limited use for travel despite its slim, sleek profile. This laptop is great for students, writers, accountants, researchers, and anyone else who wants a big screen on a modest budget. If you need multi-threaded performance or battery life, however, consider an AMD alternative.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Acer Swift 3 review: A big screen on a modest budget
Source: PC World
Acer’s Swift 3 is all about the screen. It’s among the most affordable 16-inch laptops available, rivaled only by Lenovo’s 16-inch IdeaPad. Despite this, the Swift 3 delivers a great 1080p screen with a high contrast ratio and accurate color. It’s ideal for multi-tasking, watching movies, and streaming shows. Look past the display, however, and the laptop is less exciting. The Intel Core i7-11370H is usually behind AMD’s Ryzen 7 in demanding apps, though Intel’s Xe integrated do manage a win. Battery life is a problem as well and makes the Swift 3 of limited use for travel despite its slim, sleek profile. This laptop is great for students, writers, accountants, researchers, and anyone else who wants a big screen on a modest budget. If you need multi-threaded performance or battery life, however, consider an AMD alternative.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

Acer Swift 3 (2021) Review / SF316-51
Source: Hubwood
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/26/2021

Acer Swift 3 (2021) Review / SF316-51
Source: Hubwood
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/26/2021

Acer Swift 3 SF316-51-51BS

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Average Score: 70% - average

70% Acer Swift 3 16 review: Old school package but decent value
Source: Digital Trends
You really can’t knock getting a large, 16-inch laptop with excellent productivity performance and good battery life for $1,000. That’s the Acer Swift 3 16 in a nutshell. My biggest complaints with the laptop are its slightly subpar build quality and its 16:9 display, making it feel too wide. But the keyboard is adequate, and the touchpad is large, although Acer needs to loosen up the buttons a bit. If you’re looking for a large-format machine for productivity use with a bit of creative work tossed in, then the Swift 3 16 is a strong candidate. Even though its display is 16:9, the Acer Swift 3 16 provides more than enough performance for productive multitasking, and the large screen can comfortably host two windows side by side.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/01/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

Acer Swift 3 (SF316-51) - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/25/2021

Acer Swift 3 (SF316-51) review – 16-inch laptops are becoming more popular than ever
Source: Laptop Media
Acer Swift 3 (SF316-51)’s IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and a good contrast ratio. Its backlight is safe when it comes to PWM, while the color coverage is about 98%. This, paired with the good color accuracy with our Gaming and Web design profile, makes the panel great for professional work, requiring accurate color representation.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/24/2021

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Acer Swift 3 SF316 Review
Source: Tweakers NL→EN
Positive: Light weight; powerful processor. Negative: Mediocre numeric keypad; weak speakers; no card reader.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/11/2021

Acer Swift 3 SF316-51-7486

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Average Score: 83% - good

Acer Swift 3 16 Laptop Review: Affordable And Capable
Source: Hot Hardware
While you can enjoy casual gaming on the Swift 3 16, do not expect to be playing many GPU-intensive games on this particular machine without the aid of a cloud gaming service like GeForce NOW, for example. If you are the type of gamer that enjoys games like Minecraft, then you should be fine. Just keep in mind that this is not a gaming laptop as it utilizes Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics versus a discrete GPU. The Acer Swift 3 that we tested is a nice, affordable option for anyone who needs a dependable laptop for working from home, taking online classes, or simply a well-built laptop for travel. It is more than capable of multitasking, such as streaming some YouTube or Netflix while either editing Word documents or smashing out that 5 page essay. This is a light, sturdy laptop with a quality keyboard that is well-suited for mainstream mobile computing needs. Its all metal frame gives it a premium feel despite its approachable price point. Starting at $999, Acer offers a solid, well-built machine in the new Swift 3, with good horsepower for a myriad of mainstream use cases.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/10/2022

70% Acer Swift 3 (16-inch, 2021) review
Source: Laptop Mag
Overall, the Acer Swift 3 isn’t an impressive laptop, but it’s good for people who need something that runs well and has a large display. If you’re not a fan of the shorter battery life and the meh keyboard, you may want to look at competitors of its ilk. The Aero 13 offers an excellent keyboard, a bright display and amazing battery life. However, the 13-inch screen isn’t very big compared with the Swift 3. If you’re dying for a large display, the Acer Swift 3 is probably one of the better laptops to get on a budget, but it’s not the best.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/27/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%

80% Acer Swift 3 (16-Inch)
Source: PC Mag
The Acer Swift 3 may not have been our favorite ultraportable machine when we looked at the smaller version a few months ago, but as a 16-inch machine in the latest refresh, it works really well. The H-series 11th Generation Intel processor gives the Swift 3 a much-needed performance boost. Couple that with excellent battery life, and you have a very capable productivity machine. However, if you're looking to squeeze some more performance from your 16-inch machine for about the same price, we'd recommend grabbing our Editor's Choice pick, the Dell Inspiron 16 Plus, which will net you a GeForce RTX 30-series GPU, as well as a peppy H-series processor and even better battery life.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/22/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%

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99% Ekkora NOTEBOOKPORNÓRA nem számítottam! – Acer Swift 3 – SF316-51-7486 teszt
Source: Laptopkalauz HU→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/19/2021
Rating: Total score: 99% performance: 99%

Acer Swift 3 SF316-51-57D7

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Acer Swift 3 SF316-51-57D7. Portátil 16,1" con periféricos de calidad y buen diseño
Source: Ofertaman ES→EN
Positive: Large screen; good connectivity; beautiful design; long battery life; nice display.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 04/05/2022

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Acer: The company was founded under the name of Multitech in Taiwan in 1976 and renamed to Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors and televisions. Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell also belong to the Group and sell their own laptops.

While Acer still had the third largest global market share in the notebook segment in 2008, it ranked 6th in 2016 with a market share of 6% after they had continuously lost market shares.

There are dozens of Acer laptop reviews per month, the ratings are average (as of 2016). Gateway, which has an own laptop line-up, has also belonged to the Acer Group since 2007.

Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G4 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 96 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.

Intel Iris Xe G7 80EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G7 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 80 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.

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

Intel Tiger Lake:

i7-11370H: Tiger Lake (H35 series) based high end quad-core SoC for thin and light gaming laptops and workstations. The four CPU cores clock with 3 - 3.3 GHz base clock (28 - 35 W TDP) and up to 4.8 GHz Boost clock. The integrated G7 Iris Xe GPU offers 96 cores at 400 - 1350 MHz.

i5-11300H: Tiger Lake (H35 series) based mid range SoC for thin and light gaming laptops and workstations. The four CPU cores clock with 2.6 - 3.1 GHz base clock (28 - 35 W TDP) and up to 4.4 GHz Boost clock. The integrated G7 GPU offers 80 EUs at 400 - 1,300 MHz.

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

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

1.674 kg:

This weight is typical for very old and big tablets, subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 11-13 inch display-diagonal; nowadays, rather typical for 15 inch laptops.

1.8 kg:

75.04%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

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

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