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this guy this guy Belle he's a Mac User

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and he was like what Windows laptop is good and I said the Acer Swift X he

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literally scoffed these Apple guys that hear Acer they no this thing's great and

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I'm going to show you why it it also isn't great in some ways but but it's

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great and I'm going to tell you why all right here we have a 100 wat

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power adapter and that is being delivered over USB type-c which is

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awesome I absolutely love that you can have everything from your headphones to

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your vape pen to your Xbox controller

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all of them can be charged directly from this plug it in hit the power button got

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it damn it there we go it's a laptop it

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certainly looks like a laptop there's not much design going on

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the back there this would be a really good candidate for a dbrand skin cuz man

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that's that's not a whole lot happening there overall though we do have a solid

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selection of I/O so on the right we have Micro SD and a fulls size type A on the

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left we have two Thunderbolt 4S headphone microphone combo Jack another

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type A and HDMI 2.1 looking around the

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back one thing that is interesting is that there doesn't appear to be much for

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ventilation back here it's just metal and there's a tiny little vent on the

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bottom that might not be enough to cool the 4070 in here actually I know it's

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not enough I looked at the laps results the build quality does seem quite high

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this is a stamped aluminum chassis and it is really really quite rigid overall

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though first impressions are quite good this trackpad takes up the full bottom

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here it has their eco-friendly ocean

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glass either way glass topped touchpad like to see that we've got the keyboard

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right quickly let's give this away 3.4

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lb that is pretty good with our charger

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that goes up to 4.2 not too bad especially given this has a 47 in it all

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right let's have a look at the spe in here we have an Intel Core Ultra 71 155h

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that is 16 cores 22 threads we also have

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32 GB of memory running at 6,400 megat transfers per second it does say row of

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chips so he might not be able to upgrade it which would be a big sad we also have

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a 1 TB Samsung NVMe SSD Wi-Fi 6E and the

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star of the show and the star of not the show actually the NVIDIA RTX 470 this

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thing is an excellent GPU that is very much held back by the fact this only has

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an advertised 50 wats of power and a measured 60 is we actually saw 58 which

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is um not enough for these we will talk about the actual performance later but

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60 wats is not enough for a 4070 and you don't even have the like in some laptops

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you can be like yeah just get the more expensive GPU even if it doesn't have

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enough power it has more vram nope this is 8 GB of GPU memory so that's not

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really enough oh yeah and there's an npu AS and literally everyone has been

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talking about how AI OMG but uh this npu

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isn't good enough for co-pilot plus so that's too bad what's immediately

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jumping out here though this display looks fantastic it is 2080x 1800p so 16x

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10 OLED and 120 HZ and it looks Flipping

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Fantastic in SDR we measured it as just

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under 4 400 nits Peak brightness and the

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color accuracy is kind of all over the place depending what profile you use but

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for the most part it is staying under that Delta e of2 so you can definitely

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use this for professional color work also when you put it into HDR mode we

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measured just over 600 nits Peak brightness Which is higher than their

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500 nits advertised but that was only at a 5% window you're looking it more like

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400 nits Peak brightness for the full screen but that said those 600 nits in

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the little tin tiny Windows will still be enough to give you a HDR experience

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when you're in a really dark room this laptop is definitely aimed at being an

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all-arounder so let's give the keyboard a little

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snip this keyboard is perfectly adequate

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I was able to get up to full speed without any accuracy problems but at the

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same time I was not enjoying a second of it the keys are very consistent so from

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key to key you can get used to it but also the key stability definitely leave

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something to be desired like if you look here I can press on the corner we're

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getting loads of flex right there if you don't hit the key directly in the center

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you're going to be slowing down for a second it's borderline B minus that said

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though the trackpad below it is great as we said it has that silly ocean glass on

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it so it is glass topped it is nice and

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large and also I've had no trouble at all with the accuracy on it that's a

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trackpad click feels pretty good too but not like what you would find on

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something that's a bit pricier with the force touch trackpad do you guys want to

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see an incredible feature that so many laptops lack right now oh yeah there we

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go type A directly into the laptop get

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on Dell Lenovo has their new yoga 7 it

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looked so beautiful only USB type-c not

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even a headphone jack no type a complete

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right off okay Mac does get a bit of a pass because in my mind fullsize SD card

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reader and HDMI does make up for lack of a type A this thing kind of loud you're

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in normal mode so we're not even in performance yet ooh and in performance

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it's even louder all right we are in rocket League here and I am currently

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getting 10 it's really all over the place

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actually I'm having some frame pacing issues for sure we're currently screen

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recording what about I stop screen recording there we go

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minimums of 230 now so I guess that this

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is not a super happy GPU when you are screen recording and gaming at the same

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time I was expecting a little bit better which kind of is just everything about

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the GPU in this I was expecting a little bit better I really feel like that they

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could have had quite a bit more cooling back here and then we would have been

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quite a bit more positive about this it does really seem like this chassis was

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designed around a 4050 which has that 50

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wat TDP and you are not getting everything out of a 4060 or a 4070 our

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lab compared this to a 4060 in the Asus G14 which In fairness is a gaming laptop

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does have quite a bit more power but the 4060 in that absolutely walked all over

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the 4070 that we have in our Acer right here so just do not buy the 4070 version

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of this laptop you are not getting a 4070 you are getting at best just a very

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expensive 40 60 the worst part of all of this is that their configs kind of suck

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so if you need 32 GB of RAM like maybe you're a video editor or a photo editor

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and you just want a GPU even though you don't really need all of that

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performance you need to get one of the higher end gpus to get the RAM that you

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will need this is really too bad because the 4050 in this I think would be

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perfect you can do almost everything it's nice it's pretty light screen's

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amazing but it is really really throttled once you put those higher end

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gpus into it that said though for gaming I am having a really great time on this

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that 120 HZ display plus the OLED we measured as having nearly perfect

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latency all right let's test the speakers I do not have High Hopes

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everything from Acer that I have tested in the last couple years has frankly

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sucked ass you guys really need to improve your

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speakers okay that's that's better than I expected

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although still not great it's

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uh kind of harsh kind of just bad sounding if I'm

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honest oh H there are different spatial audio

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modes in this and traditional just sounds way better

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than so we have games and ener oh

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wow just turn that off sounds okay in

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the normal just stereo mode when you have the spatial stuff on it sounds like

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butt it does sound wider but it sounds like butt oh we do have some down firing

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speakers on the side so let's just verify that we don't get it

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better nah it still kind of sucks Acer you genuinely need to have a big think

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and go and improve your speakers they are a massive low light on all of your

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laptops at the moment all right let's look at the webcam this thing is 1080P

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and it is awful uh I am completely blown out and also very red looking uh moving

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over here I am still very redl looking and kind of under exposed and blown out

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at the same time moving over here uh

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yeah it's incredibly noisy and blown out

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and under exposed at the same time oh is

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genuinely terrible this is a tier of webcam

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that I have not seen on a laptop in a while this thing sucks oh look at that

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we also do not get Windows hello facial recognition but we do have a fingerprint

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sensor right over here which is a nice little addition the battery itself is 76

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wat hours and it was able to last in our endurance test for 7 hours and 37

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minutes which is really quite good given the power of this thing and also the

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fact that it has an OLED display now looking in here first first of all no

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upgradable RAM it is just soldered down we can see the chips right there which

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is very very sad because as I said before this would be a much better

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laptop if you're able to combine the 4050 with 32 GB of RAM because you're

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not getting much more than 4050 performance anyway and we can very

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easily see why right here this is a very

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anemic cooler we have two little heat pipes that go down here for the CPU and

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the GPU which explains our CPU was at 102° while we were playing rocket league

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and it's just not enough we we need more

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Cooling in this if you want to put a 4070 in this Acer it's just not

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acceptable for this class of GPU also in here we do have upgradeable

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SSD and an upgradeable Wi-Fi card which I do really like to see because maybe 60

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is pretty good right now maybe you want Wi-Fi 8 in the future or something like

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that you can just Chuck it in right there and it probably will work I was

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going to go grab a double-sided SSD but I don't even have to there is so much

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room underneath this SSD that you're going to have no trouble at all putting

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a double-sided SSD in right there overall the Acer Swift x14 I do think is

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a really good laptop even if it is flawed in some ways I do really wish

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that I had a bit more Cooling and that would mean that you could have more than

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the 4050 in this but that said if you want to get the 4050 model which you

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probably should it's going to start at $1,400 the one that we have speced here

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is more like 1,700 which I don't think

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is a good buy cuz you are not getting value out of that 470 that said you do

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get a decent keyboard great trackpad it's nice and light and that OLED screen

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is freaking fantastic so if you're looking for something that can just

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cover all of your bases if you want to do video editing photo editing

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gaming professional work office stuff

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it's it can do all of it incredibly comp

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competently and in particular the lowest of the lowest end model which doesn't

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get the OLED screen and only a 3050 that thing's on sale for 800 bucks

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right now and that sounds absolutely fantastic there you go if you want a

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MacBook Pro but do not have MacBook Pro money I do not think that the Acer Swift

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x14 is something to scoff at Belle