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23 people found this helpful
Good light, budget laptop
By RG on Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2022
As a relatively inexpensive and light laptop, the Acer Swift 3 is pretty solid. It's not a heavy duty laptop and it isn't going to be a great option for gaming or video editing or anything that requires a lot of processing power, but as a general purpose laptop for surfing the web or watching YouTube videos it's going to be perfectly functional. It weighs in around 2.6-2.8lbs (my scale isn't very precise and the reading fluctuated between the two after several tries), which makes it quite easy to carry around without feeling weighed down. The construction feels about what I would expect for a computer in this price range, which is to say it's not top quality but it's not flimsy either. The keyboard is not overly clicky, although it is a bit louder than i would like. I am generally not a fan of laptop keyboards as I prefer a bit more responsiveness but all things considered it's not bad. The backlighting on the keyboard works well. The Cinebench score was a rather pedestrian 5000. But regardless of benchmarks, I have found it works perfectly well for my everyday needs. I can have a full-screen video running on one screen while surfing the web on another with no lag or hiccups. I keep several programs open all the time (including Chrome which is a serious memory hog) and the laptop doesn't have any performance issues. Considering the price point I am very satisfied with its performance. The one negative about the setup is that the RAM cannot be upgraded (I got 8gb and wanted 16gb but wasn't going to pay the ridiculous cost difference to buy it pre-installed). I also would have liked 1 more usb port, but 2 is pretty standard so it's not something I would hold against it. Overall I am very satisfied with this laptop. If you don't carry your laptop around very much you might consider looking around for other options because there are probably other more performant options around this price range at the cost of more weight. But if you want a portable, inexpensive laptop that performs well on common everyday tasks then this is a great choice.
Top critical review
6 people found this helpful
Barely handles internet browsing. Crashes constantly
By Anastasia P. on Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2023
I would give it ZERO stars if I could. I would never purchase this laptop again and I would be offended it if were offered to me as a gift. I purchased this laptop as a student on a budget in 2021 and I think I paid around $700-$800 for it. Within the first week of use I started experiencing crashing problems where the laptop would slightly overheat, the fan starts going crazy and the computer just shuts itself off. This still happens to me at least once a week and it’s been over two years of me owning this laptop. At first it was just an annoying occurrence when I would be streaming a movie or a tv show and the computer would crash but then it started happening while working on my schoolwork and it got very frustrating. I reached out to acer about it and they told me I would need to erase everything on it and securely package and ship the laptop at my own expense to one of their centers which would have taken several weeks with no guarantee that they would actually be able to resolve the issue. So I obviously never sent it in because I didn’t have a secondary laptop to use in the absence of mine. So in summary poor performance, crashes all the time, I guess the display is fine but I wouldn’t use it for gaming because it can barely handle internet browsing. Also forgot to mention the speakers are absolute trash, audio is faint on the loudest setting and apparently so is the microphone I have been told on video calls my voice is either too loud or can’t be heard (while speaking normally). So yeah DONT waste your money
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