The Acer Swift3 OLED offers just enough performance and build quality to live up to its new OLED display and make it a viable 14-inch laptop option.
Acer Swift 3 OLED MSRP $1,230.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “The Acer Swift 3 OLED comes with a spectacular display and impressive performance.” Pros Cons Acer has been slow to jump on the OLED laptop bandwagon. But finally, the company has brought an OLED panel to its popular midrange 14-inch laptop, the Swift 3.
Point is — the Acer Swift 3 OLED is right in the same ballpark as many of its close rivals, but it needs to offer something unique to rise above. Sometimes faster does mean faster As I mentioned earlier, manufacturers have installed Intel’s 45-watt 12th-gen CPUs in 14-inch thin and light laptops with varying success. In some cases, performance was thermally limited to the point where there was little advantage over Intel’s 28-watt CPUs with fewer cores. The most common alternative CPU is the 28-watt 12-core/16-thread Core i7-1260P.
The Swift 3 OLED’s gaming performance was surprisingly poor, even by integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics standards. I’m not sure why the laptop was so slow, hitting just 11 frames per second in Fortnite at 1200p and epic graphics, but it’s definitely not a gaming machine. I only include these results to stress the point.
The build quality remains the same, with an all-aluminum chassis that resisted most bending and flexing during my testing. It’s a solid build for a midrange laptop, although again, the Pavilion Plus 14 wins, by a hair in this case. The Swift 3 OLED is thicker than the non-OLED model at 0.70 inches versus 0.63 inches and heavier at 3.09 pounds versus 2.76 pounds. Again, that’s necessary to accommodate the faster and hotter CPU.
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