Acer’s newest laptop computer with AMD inside isn’t solely light-weight, it is purportedly the lightest 16-inch
OLED mannequin the world has ever seen, the corporate claims. To that finish, the Swift Edge powered by AMD’s Ryzen 6000 and Ryzen Professional 6000 collection processors options an ultra-slim magnesium-aluminum chassis with a 0.51-inch waistline, and weighs simply 2.58 kilos.
We have discovered no proof to contradict Acer’s “world’s lightest 16-inch OLED laptop computer” declare. It is even a tad lighter than Apple’s
M2-powered 13.6-inch MacBook Air, which checks in at 2.7 kilos. Not that two kilos is heavy for a laptop computer by any stretch, but it surely highlights why Acer’s bragging rights are legitimate.
The 16-inch OLED show on the Swift Edge (mannequin SFA16-41) delivers a 4K decision (3840×2400) with a 16:10 side ratio, 60Hz refresh price, 500 nits peak brightness, 1,000,000:1 distinction ratio, lower than 0.2ms response time, and a “cinema-grade” coloration gamut of 100% DCI-P3. It meets VESA’s DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, and Acer additionally factors to a slender bezel with a 92 p.c screen-to-body ratio.
Acer’s base configuration comes outfitted with a
Ryzen 7 6800U cellular processor based mostly on AMD’s Zen 3+ structure (in any other case referred to as Rembrandt). That is a stout 8-core/16-thread chip with a 2.7GHz base clock, as much as a 4.7GHz increase clock, and 16MB of L3 cache. The chip can also be outfitted with built-in RDNA 2 graphics—Radeon 680M with 12 graphics cores clocked at as much as 2.2GHz.
Patrons may also have the ability to go for a Ryzen Professional variant for added safety and IT administration facilities. As well as, the laptop computer ships with Microsoft’s Pluton safety protections turned on by default, including one other layer of safety.
Different options embody as much as 32GB of LPDDR5 reminiscence, as much as 1TB of NVMe SSD storage, Full HD webcam, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, two USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Kind-C ports with fast-charging assist, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-A ports, HDMI 2.1 output, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a Noble safety slot, a fingerprint reader, and a pair of built-in stereo audio system.
The
Acer Swift Edge with AMD inside is offered now within the US (at Costco initially) beginning at $1,499.99.
