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Acer’s Swift 16 Air laptop weighs less than 2.2 pounds

by admin September 3, 2025


Acer just unveiled the new Swift 16 Air laptop at IFA 2025. The biggest selling point here is likely the weight. The 16-inch laptop clocks in at just over two pounds, which is lighter than a 13-inch MacBook Air.

The Swift 16 Air is available with two display options. There’s a standard IPS panel and an AMOLED. The AMOLED does tick the weight up a bit to 2.4 pounds, which is worth considering.

The overall specs here are solid. These computers are powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, with options up to the AI 7 350. They also come with AMD Radeon GPUs. The battery life is pretty decent, allowing for up to 13 hours of use per charge.

There’s a webcam with a privacy shutter and plenty of connectivity options. These include a pair of USB-C ports, two USB-A ports and an HDMI port. Finally, each laptop ships with two speakers and two microphones.

The Acer Swift 16 Air will be available this November in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We don’t have pricing or availability information for the US yet, but the starting cost in Europe translates to around $1,160.

The company also used IFA to introduce the TravelMate X4 AI. This is a lightweight Copilot+ PC with Intel Core Ultra Processors. It weighs less than three pounds and meets MIL-STD810H durability standards. It ships later this month, with a starting price of $1,400.



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My brief hands-on with Acer’s new convertible Chromebook has me cautiously optimistic
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My brief hands-on with Acer’s new convertible Chromebook has me cautiously optimistic

by admin September 3, 2025


Acer’s new Chromebook Plus Spin 514, announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin, is the company’s first laptop to use the Arm-based MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 processor. That chip was used in the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 that launched earlier this summer, and it was key to delivering excellent performance and marathon battery life in that fanless laptop. I dubbed the Lenovo “the new king of Chromebooks,” and this $699.99 Acer, launching this month, seems poised to be a solid alternative — especially if you prefer a touchscreen convertible and don’t mind hearing a fan on occasion.

Acer sent me the new Chromebook Plus Spin 514 for early testing, and after some brief hands-on time I can already tell battery life is again likely to be one of the Kompanio Ultra’s strengths. The IPS display options with 1920 x 1200 or 2880 x 1800 resolution aren’t going to hang with the punchiness of the OLED panels in the Lenovo. But the draw of the Acer is its Gorilla Glass-covered 14-inch touchscreen with support for USI 2.0 styluses (which are sold separately), allowing you to use it like a tablet, draw on it, or take handwritten notes.

That, and it has more, faster ports than the Lenovo. The Chromebook Plus Spin 514 has two 10Gbps USB-C ports with DisplayPort and Power Delivery, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and a 3.5mm audio jack. The Acer also has a 70Wh battery compared to Lenovo’s 60Wh, and like the Lenovo it comes with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage. For a webcam, it offers either 1080p or 5-megapixel options.

What the Acer doesn’t have, however, is a side-mounted power button. Which is a little odd on a 2-in-1, because if it goes to sleep in tablet mode you have to reach around to the keyboard deck for the power button. Its up-firing speakers are also on the keyboard deck, so in tent mode or tablet mode you’re moving its already meager, thin-sounding speakers away from you.

Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge



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