Acer Swift X SFX16-51G – 16-inch portable laptop, vs Swift X SFX14-41G
Earlier in the year, Acer released the Swift X series of mid-range portable laptops with powerful specs, and the 14-inch model (which I reviewed in this article) ended up being very popular in its class, as one of the best-value all-purpose laptops that you can get for around 1000-1100 USD/EUR. More recently Acer followed up on that compact variant with a full-size model, this time with a larger 16-inch display and built on Intel Core H35 + RTX 3050/3050Ti graphics running at higher power than in the 14-inch model. I got my hands on an early sample of this Swift X 16, code name SFX16-51G, and will share my findings with you down below. This sample runs on Windows 11 with unfinalized BIOS and software, so we’re not getting in-depth on the performance details at this point, but we’ll touch on everything else that you should account for when looking at this series, and hopefully upgrade with benchmarks later on. In just a few words, this is an incremental refine...