Acer Swift Go 16 Series

Acer Swift Go 16 SFG16-71

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Average Score: 80.5% - good

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70% Acer Swift Go 14 review: Beautiful display, disappointing battery life
Source: PC World
The new Acer Swift Go 14 bets everything on the performance of Intel’s Core i7-13700H. That bet doesn’t pay off. It’s true that Intel’s Core i7-13700H can deliver superior performance in CPU-intensive tasks. This, however, requires a sacrifice in graphics performance most potential owners won’t find appealing. The Swift Go 14 also struggles to deliver on battery life despite the lack of discrete graphics, which is a problem for a thin, light laptop. Acer’s inexpensive base MSRP of $1,099.99 helps to forgive these flaws, but it’s ultimately not enough to make the Swift Go 14 stand out from a crowded field of similar laptops.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/12/2023
Rating: Total score: 70%

Acer Swift Go 16 (SFG16-71) review – Ready! Swift! Go!
Source: Laptop Media
Today, we had a fantastic device in our office. With the exception of a few minor flaws, it is a product that will satisfy all your office and home needs. It has a sleek exterior, which is thin, light, and well-built. Thanks to the aluminum body panels and rigid structure, you can be confident and feel the premium spark of the product. Interestingly, its hardware varies from relatively powerful to a beast. Unfortunately, there is no dedicated graphics available, but you can still play most of the popular low-intensity games on the market. However, the best thing about it might just be the display. Unfortunately, we were not able to get ourselves the OLED option. However, its IPS unit is definitely not something to be messed with. Acer Swift Go 16 (SFG16-71)’s IPS panel has a WUXGA resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and a very good contrast ratio. It covers 86% of the sRGB color gamut.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/03/2023

Foreign Reviews

91% Acer Swift Go 16: Test des 16-Zoll-Laptops mit Top-Display
Source: Computerbild DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/26/2023
Rating: Total score: 91%

Acer Swift Go 16 SFG16-71, i5-1335U

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Average Score: 60% - poor

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60% Acer Swift Go 16 Review
Source: Trusted Reviews
If you’re going to buy an Acer Swift Go 16, I would advise waiting for a sale. While the core concept is commendable – a prestige laptop with generous core specs that costs less than much of the competition – some parts don’t quite land right when compared to the best laptops we’ve reviewed. Battery life well below all-day use is the main issue. And when combined with the so-so keyboard and touchpad, the ageing processor and reflection-distorting plastic screen cover, a little too much of the initial Swift Go 16 becomes mottled. If you find it selling below asking price, as was the case during our review window, the Acer Swift Go 16 could make a lot of sense, though, and save you hundreds off competing models.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%

Acer Swift Go 16 OLED SFG16-72

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Average Score: 75% - good

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80% Acer Swift Go 16 review: Premium performance for a decent price
Source: Laptop Mag
Maintaining a solid price point while offering premium performance isn’t easy, and the Acer Swift Go 16 further drives its excellence with a colorful panel, solid battery life, and decent speakers. While its panel could benefit from an increase in brightness, alongside its aluminum chassis feeling a tad thin in areas, it does more than enough to be worth its $1,199 price point. And if you’re a sucker for storage (and don’t want to have to open up a laptop to increase space yourself), it can be built with up to 8TB of SSD storage. If you want a 16-inch productivity laptop as an alternative, the Asus Zenbook S16 is an absolute killer. Otherwise, the Acer Swift Go 16 is still fantastic.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%

70% Acer Swift Go 16 (2024) Review
Source: PC Mag
The 2024 Acer Swift Go 16 is one of the better-performing under-$1,000 laptops we've seen, a worthy desktop replacement for office productivity and modest creative tasks. Its main drawback is the ready availability of somewhat pricier but more desirable models with dazzling OLED screens and better keyboards. (We're quite fond of the Editors' Choice Asus Zenbook 14 OLED Touch.) However, the Swift Go's benchmark and battery scores promote it from a 3-star to a 3.5-star rating.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/23/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%

Acer Swift Go 16 OLED SFG16-72, Core Ultra 7 155H

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Average Score: 76% - good

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76% Besseres Arbeiten dank KI?
Source: Netzwelt DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/11/2024
Rating: Total score: 76% performance: 60% features: 80% display: 100% ergonomy: 90%

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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.

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.

With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

Intel Arc 8-Core: Integrated graphics adapter based on the Xe LPG architecture (similar to the dedicated Arc GPUs, but with a focus on efficiency). Provides all 8 Xe cores (128 Xe vector engines) and 8 ray tracing units.

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

Intel Raptor Lake-U:

i7-1355U: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.2 to 5 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.

i5-1335U: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 0.9 to 4.6 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.

Intel Meteor Lake-H:

Ultra 9 185H: The top-of-the-line Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 5.1 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The 8-core Arc GPU, just out of the oven, serves as the integrated graphics adapter - this runs at up to 2.35 GHz - and there is a bevy of other brand-new technologies on offer as well such as the integrated AI Boost NPU with two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. vPro Enterprise and business-centric features such as the Remote Platform Erase are onboard as well. This laptop processors's "base" power consumption is 45 W, while its Turbo power consumption is not supposed to go over 115 W.

Ultra 7 155H: A high-end Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 4.8 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The integrated AI Boost NPU offers two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. This laptop processor's Base power consumption is 28 W while its Turbo power consumption is supposed to stay within 115 W.

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

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This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.

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

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74.5%: 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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