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Acer Unveils 14-Inch Swift Air Laptop Starting at $699
Acer announced a 14-inch Swift Air laptop priced from $699 with Intel Core Series 3 processors. The model offers up to 16GB of RAM and will be available in North America in August.
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The device comes with either a Core 5 or Core 7 processor, each with six cores, and is offered in green, pink, purple, and gray-blue finishes with an aluminum chassis. The laptop begins with 8GB of RAM and can be configured up to 16GB. It weighs 2.76 pounds and measures 12.9mm at its thinnest point.
The display has a 1920 x 1200 resolution, reaches 350 nits, supports a 120Hz refresh rate, and covers 100 percent of the sRGB color space.
Acer also introduced an 18-inch Aspire model with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of storage. The larger laptop weighs 4.83 pounds and features a 1920 x 1200 screen with a 165Hz refresh rate and 400 nits of brightness.
The company further announced a Nitro 16 gaming laptop configurable with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processor and an RTX 5070 Ti graphics card. Pricing for both the Aspire 18 and Nitro 16 remains to be determined. The Swift Air 14 is scheduled to launch in North America in August and in other regions in July.
The Aspire 18 and Nitro 16 are also expected to ship in August for North America.
