Acer Announces New Swift 5 (SF514-56T)

Acer has updated its Swift lineup notebooks with the Swift 5 (SF514-56T) and Swift 3 (SF314-512), both laptops will be fitted with the latest 12th Gen Intel processors, updated displays, and improved battery life.

The Acer Swift 5 (SF514-56T) is a thin, light, and sharp-looking laptop designed for professional and on-the-go use. The laptop’s chassis is a unibody CNC-machined piece of aerospace-grade aluminum. The laptop could also be fitted with up 12-core 12th Gen Intel Processor paired with Iris Xe graphics. Completing the package is a pair of dual-channel LPDDR5 memory and support for up to 2TB of PCIe gen 4 SSD storage.

The Swift 5 features Windows Hello and a fingerprint reader built into the power button. The Acer Swift 5 is also Intel Evo Certified with its 10 hours real-world battery life and fast charging speed.

The Acer Swift 5 also has a beautiful 2,560 x 1,600 touchscreen display fitted; the display is almost bezel-less with a screen-to-body ratio of 92.22%. On top of that, the display has an aspect ratio of 16:10, which offers more vertical screen space for productivity.

As for ports and connectivity, the laptop features two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports with one of them being used to power it.

The Acer Swift 5 will be available in North America in June with a price tag of $1,499. It is safe to say that it will take another few months for it to arrive on Malaysian shores.

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