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Acer announces a new Swift Air 16 in IFA 2025, which is an absolute feather weight for a 16 -inch laptop. It weighs 2.18 pounds / 0.99 kg with the IPS screen or 2.43 pounds / 1.1 kg with optional OLED, the fast air is lighter than even a 13 inch MacBook Air. It also pacates more ports than MacBook, and will start at a price of 999 euros when launch in November. (North America still provides TBD.)
It is a kind of filling that Air Swift Air 16 fits this screen a lot in this light package, as it is lighter than LG gram – A laptop determined by lightness. But reality tests begin as soon as some Swift specifications, such as 0.63 inches / 15.9 mm (0.65 inches / 16.5 mm for OLED). On the contrary, the 13 and 15 -inch MacBook atmosphere is only 0.44 inches and 0.45 inches, respectively.
Also, while Swift’s AMD Ryzen Ai 300-Series slices are more than that they are eligible for daily productivity tasks, I have seen closely that Apple’s M4 chip is outperformed while keeping the battery life. The Swift Air starting composition will come with Ryzen Ai 5330 chip, and the Ryzen Ai 7 350 is used. I have tested the last slide in the latest Portable frame 13 It is very capable, even a touch of light games.
But the Swift Air 16 parts that give me the biggest temporary stop are HDMI specifications and battery size. It contains a decent port selection with two USB-C, USB-A 3.2, 3.5 mm voice socket, but its video port is HDMI 1.4. This is very old for 2025, when you expect almost any laptop computer approximately $ 1,000 to drive an external screen at a speed of 4K / 60Hz or more. HDMI 1.4 can only do 4K in the sub -metric 24 or 30 Hz.
Although the Swift IPS screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 respected at 60 Hz, the optional OLED resolution of 2880 x 1800 with 120 Hz updates, the laptop battery is only 50 hours. This is a smaller capacity of MacBook Air 13 inches, and a lot Smaller than 75WH battery in Acer Swift 14 Amnesty International I was tested earlier this year. Swift Swift 14 inch cousin has a great battery life for the most hungry AMD AMD chips, and the large battery was a great cause. Left Special promotional materials Swift 14 AI values in “battery life up to 27 hours” in video playback test. Swift Air 16 battery life in similar video playback tests? Only 13 hours – less than half. Och.
Oh, and did you notice the swift Air keyboard that does not contain a gap?
She has already mocked a lot of holes in the Swift Air 16 body before her journey was taken before marriage. But I am still interested in seeing it, and I hope that you will fall on our beaches here in the United States. Despite my fears, it’s an interesting machine. I am all for a company that takes some opportunities. But the laptop “air” laptop will draw unavoidable comparisons.