I’ve spent the last year using the Acer Swift 3 on a daily basis for writing scripts, running slides on my live streams, editing thumbnails for my videos, and the occasional on the go video edit. ►⏩►⏩ Check specs and pricing in the links below…

💻 Acer Swift 3 ( https://geni.us/Swift3-R7-8GB - Commission Earned )

The Acer Swift 3 has been my on-the-go productivity creator workhorse. I’m gonna talk about a few things I love and a few I hate. This is my Acer Swift 3 long term review, so I hope it brings you even more value!

Let’s kick things off on a positive note by talking about the things I love, then we can talk about the hates, and then we will look at just a few numbers and benchmarks to tune into the performance elements.

The battery life is one of the top things I love most about this laptop. You can easily get 12+ hours at half brightness. For example I have taken a few road trips over the past year and worked while my wife drove and I was about to get in a full 9 hour day at half brightness with 23% left on the charge. Note bad at all! And what makes this laptop even more on-the-go friendly is with just 30 minutes of charge time you can get the battery up to 4 hours of run time.

This is an all aluminum laptop. In today’s day there are a lot more budget aluminum laptops than there used to be. So what makes this lil guy stand out is the Ryzen 7 8 Core and 8 Thread processor, in all aluminum, and under $700.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Acer Swift 3 One Year Review
0:55 - What I love about the Acer Swift 3
2:43 - Some things that I hate
5:45 - Performance capabilities
5:56 - Simulated benchmark test
6:45 - Photoshop Benchmarks
7:29 - Multitasking in design and photo editing software
7:52 - Video editing tests
9:27 - Thermal and noise benchmarks
10:02 - Who should buy this laptop?

It’s easy to open and close, it has a singular hinge for increased reliability and durability, and over the past year it has not received a single dent or scratch on any of the surfaces. It is thin and light at 2.65 Lbs and a thickness of 0.63 inches thick.

The Acer Swift 3 with its full HD screen can reach 253 Nits at full brightness with a Color Gamut Range of 64% sRGB - 47% Adobe RGB - 47% DCI-P3 all at a Delta @ of 3.82.

The next and final two areas of disappointment before moving onto some more positive aspects, because I truly like this laptop a LOT. I just want to give you a super honest transparent review and then let you decide if this laptop is for you or not.

The Keyboard and trackpad are mushy for lack of a better term.

When I slide my finger back and forth over the keycaps on the Swift 3 there is a lot of wobble. So when I hold my finger over the edge of the key I can already begin to feel it depress. So whenever I press the key I get that mushy feeling and does not pop back up with a strong snap. Typing on the Swift 3 is definitely a good experience, but not great.

The trackpad faces a similar issue. The travel distance feels very short on the trackpad click making it a little lackluster while dragging and dropping items during workflow and editing. I would say, as a creator, this is what makes the trackpad the hardest to work with. I found myself having to use two fingers during different trackpad moves in order to get my design, edit or task finished smoothly.

Keep Editing, Keep Designing, Keep Creating, I am Ben G Kaiser and I’ll see you in the next video.

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