Acer Swift Edge SFE16-44
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Average of 3 scores (from 7 reviews)
Reviews for the Acer Swift Edge SFE16-44
Source: Laptop Media
Alright, guys, the Acer Swift Edge (SFE16-44) isn’t a bad device at all. Its main issue is the fact that it looks and feels almost like a rebrand of last year’s model. The magnesium build seems stealthy and premium. The input devices are average at best. The comfort during long CPU loads is okay. The fans don’t sound too noisy and the keyboard becomes warm to the touch, not scorching hot. The cooling still struggles with the 28W chip. The AMD Ryzen 7 8840U boosts to just 1.81 GHz in long stress which is miles away from the 3.30 GHz official AMD base frequency. However, the Multi-core result in Cinebecnh 2024 is 100 points higher than the one of the SFE16-43 model with a similar Ryzen 7 7840U processor. The display (ATNA60BX03-0 (SDC418D)) is great!
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/12/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/12/2024
Source: PC Mag
The Swift Edge 16 stands out for its premium build quality and stunning OLED screen. Its lightweight design and extensive connectivity options are also particularly impressive, given its ultra-thin profile. However, its battery life is quite short, and the speakers and keyboard leave room for improvement. It was also outclassed in performance by similarly priced machines.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Digital Trends
The Swift Edge 16 is reasonably affordable, and it has a great OLED display. Performance is more than enough for demanding productivity, and it’s very light. It’s a highly portable laptop for productivity users and media consumer who can benefit from a large display. However, the chassis is a bit too flexible, even for similar laptops with magnesium alloy designs. There’s a cost to being so light. More damning, the laptop gets very poor battery life, especially by the standard of newer Windows laptops that last two or three times as long. It’s amazing what a year can do: there’s just too much competition today to accept the Swift Edge 16’s various compromises.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/21/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: PC World
Acer’s Swift Edge 16 is an affordable and alluring pick for people who want a 16-inch laptop with a beautiful display, yet also prefer a laptop that’s thin, light, and affordable. The Swift Edge 16 is generally less expensive than competitive Windows laptops that have similar hardware and a thin-and-light design. However, Acer is forced to reduce the size of the battery to keep the laptop’s weight low, which leads to disappointing battery life: an especially notable problem now that Copilot Plus PCs with up to 20 hours of battery life are available.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/18/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Hi-Tech Mail
RU→ENPositive: Great OLED display; light weight; high mobility; high performance; comfortable keyboard; convenient NumPad; rich set of ports.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/23/2024
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: Excellent display; slim size; light weight; metal case; good webcam; nice connectivity; fast SSD storage. Negative: Non-expandable RAM; average battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/12/2024
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AMD Radeon 780M: Integrated graphics card in the Ryzen 7040 mobile series APUs based on the RDNA3 architecture with 12 CUs (= 768 shaders) and a clock speed of up to 3 GHz.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
R7 8840U: A powerful laptop processor (APU) of the Hawk Point family. This isn't an entirely new APU; instead, the R7 8840U is an R7 7840U in disguise, with higher clock speeds on the Ryzen AI NPU as the only difference. Its eight Zen 4 cores run at 3.3 GHz to 5.1 GHz and are SMT-enabled for a total of 16 processing threads. The great Radeon 780M iGPU is responsible for 3D processing and similar duties.» 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.
63.33%: Such a poor rating is rare. There are only a few notebooks that were rated even worse. The rating websites do not give a purchase recommendation here.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
