, especially the ones powered by AMD Ryzen processors. I wasn’t the only one who thought they were brilliant laptops either; I remember just how hard it was to find one in stock at the height of the pandemic.revamped the naming scheme
to our shores, and when they offered us one to review, we thought it was a good chance to take a look at what’s changed and what has stayed the same since the ol’ Swift 3 days.Now although the Swift Go 14 originally debuted at CES 2023 with Intel processors under the hood, the ones that made it to our shores were powered by Team Red instead. As such, our review unit came with an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U mated to 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM and a 512GB PCIe Gen4 SSD.
To be clear though, regular performance isn’t bad in any means—far from it in fact. In day to day workloads the Swift Go 14 performs absolutely fine. It’s able to take care of my usual suite of multiple Chrome windows open at the same time together with the likes of Photoshop, Spotify, Discord and what not in the background.
And speaking of ports, the Acer Swift Go 14 does have, again, a good enough selection of ports. It comes with two USB-C ports , two USB-A ports and a HDMI 2.1 port. There’s also support for WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, meaning that it’s relatively future proof in this regard, with WiFi 6E connectivity something I wasn’t expecting in a laptop at this price point. Another nice to have is a fingerprint sensor for Windows Hello, and I was pleased with its build quality too.