Our quick take
Acer Swift 5 (2021) - 4.0 / 5
Design
- Dimensions: 15.9 x 318.9 x 206.9mm / Weight: 1.04kg Magnesium-aluminium and magnesium-lithium body panels
Screen
- IPS LCD touchscreen panel, 1920 x 1080 resolution, 407 nit brightness 99.2% sRGB, 72.5% Adobe RGB, 77.7% DCI P3 colour
Keyboard and touchpad
- Membrane keyboard White-LED backlight Plastic touchpad
Performance
- Intel Core i5-1135G7 CPU 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD Intel Xe graphics
Battery life
- 56Wh battery 65W power adapter Up to 15 hour life per charge
To recap
This laptop may not wow on first impression because its magnesium body plates and plastic touchpad don’t treat your fingers as a MacBook might. But the Acer has quality where it matters, fitting good performance, a solid keyboard, and good screen into a circa-1kg laptop.
