WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.440 this guy this guy Belle he's a Mac User 00:00:03.199 --> 00:00:10.480 and he was like what Windows laptop is good and I said the Acer Swift X he 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:16.279 literally scoffed these Apple guys that hear Acer they no this thing's great and 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:20.080 I'm going to show you why it it also isn't great in some ways but but it's 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:24.840 great and I'm going to tell you why all right here we have a 100 wat 00:00:23.439 --> 00:00:28.519 power adapter and that is being delivered over USB type-c which is 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:34.239 awesome I absolutely love that you can have everything from your headphones to 00:00:30.759 --> 00:00:35.840 your vape pen to your Xbox controller 00:00:34.239 --> 00:00:43.160 all of them can be charged directly from this plug it in hit the power button got 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.800 it damn it there we go it's a laptop it 00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:49.360 certainly looks like a laptop there's not much design going on 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:54.440 the back there this would be a really good candidate for a dbrand skin cuz man 00:00:52.199 --> 00:00:58.280 that's that's not a whole lot happening there overall though we do have a solid 00:00:56.480 --> 00:01:03.480 selection of I/O so on the right we have Micro SD and a fulls size type A on the 00:01:01.519 --> 00:01:08.640 left we have two Thunderbolt 4S headphone microphone combo Jack another 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:11.119 type A and HDMI 2.1 looking around the 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:15.520 back one thing that is interesting is that there doesn't appear to be much for 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:20.920 ventilation back here it's just metal and there's a tiny little vent on the 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:24.640 bottom that might not be enough to cool the 4070 in here actually I know it's 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:29.079 not enough I looked at the laps results the build quality does seem quite high 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:33.240 this is a stamped aluminum chassis and it is really really quite rigid overall 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:38.640 though first impressions are quite good this trackpad takes up the full bottom 00:01:35.479 --> 00:01:41.520 here it has their eco-friendly ocean 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:46.040 glass either way glass topped touchpad like to see that we've got the keyboard 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:50.799 here nice easy layout and we've also got this segue to our sponsor secret lab you 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:55.880 may know them for their best-in-class gaming chairs but did you know secret 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:59.920 lab makes desks too their Magnus Pro isn't your average sit to stand desk 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:03.159 either it is packed with unique features you can have the cleanest desk around 00:02:01.479 --> 00:02:07.399 with their patent pending integrated power supply column and a ful length 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.280 built-in Cable Management tray and of course the Magnus 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star of not the show actually the NVIDIA RTX 470 this 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:04.239 thing is an excellent GPU that is very much held back by the fact this only has 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:11.040 an advertised 50 wats of power and a measured 60 is we actually saw 58 which 00:03:08.239 --> 00:03:15.239 is um not enough for these we will talk about the actual performance later but 00:03:12.920 --> 00:03:19.560 60 wats is not enough for a 4070 and you don't even have the like in some laptops 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:23.159 you can be like yeah just get the more expensive GPU even if it doesn't have 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:29.400 enough power it has more vram nope this is 8 GB of GPU memory so that's not 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:35.480 really enough oh yeah and there's an npu AS and literally everyone has been 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:38.120 talking about how AI OMG but uh this npu 00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:43.599 isn't good enough for co-pilot plus so that's too bad what's immediately 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:55.319 jumping out here though this display looks fantastic it is 2080x 1800p so 16x 00:03:49.640 --> 00:03:59.040 10 OLED and 120 HZ and it looks Flipping 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:02.280 Fantastic in SDR we measured it as just 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:04.360 under 4 400 nits Peak brightness and the 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:08.200 color accuracy is kind of all over the place depending what profile you use but 00:04:06.519 --> 00:04:12.560 for the most part it is staying under that Delta e of2 so you can definitely 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:17.280 use this for professional color work also when you put it into HDR mode we 00:04:14.799 --> 00:04:22.199 measured just over 600 nits Peak brightness Which is higher than their 00:04:19.400 --> 00:04:26.880 500 nits advertised but that was only at a 5% window you're looking it more like 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:30.840 400 nits Peak brightness for the full screen but that said those 600 nits in 00:04:29.080 --> 00:04:36.120 the little tin tiny Windows will still be enough to give you a HDR experience 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:39.320 when you're in a really dark room this laptop is definitely aimed at being an 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.639 all-arounder so let's give the keyboard a little 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:47.840 snip this keyboard is perfectly adequate 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:52.600 I was able to get up to full speed without any accuracy problems but at the 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:58.039 same time I was not enjoying a second of it the keys are very consistent so from 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:02.759 key to key you can get used to it but also the key stability definitely leave 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:07.479 something to be desired like if you look here I can press on the corner we're 00:05:05.039 --> 00:05:12.039 getting loads of flex right there if you don't hit the key directly in the center 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:17.560 you're going to be slowing down for a second it's borderline B minus that said 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:23.319 though the trackpad below it is great as we said it has that silly ocean glass on 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:25.360 it so it is glass topped it is nice and 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:29.759 large and also I've had no trouble at all with the accuracy on it that's a 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.120 trackpad click feels pretty good too but not like what you would find on 00:05:31.039 --> 00:05:37.680 something that's a bit pricier with the force touch trackpad do you guys want to 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:44.800 see an incredible feature that so many laptops lack right now oh yeah there we 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:48.960 go type A directly into the laptop get 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:52.360 on Dell Lenovo has their new yoga 7 it 00:05:48.960 --> 00:05:55.639 looked so beautiful only USB type-c not 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:58.319 even a headphone jack no type a complete 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:03.639 right off okay Mac does get a bit of a pass because in my mind fullsize SD card 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:08.199 reader and HDMI does make up for lack of a type A this thing kind of loud you're 00:06:06.479 --> 00:06:12.360 in normal mode so we're not even in performance yet ooh and in performance 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:16.479 it's even louder all right we are in rocket League here and I am currently 00:06:14.520 --> 00:06:21.800 getting 10 it's really all over the place 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:28.039 actually I'm having some frame pacing issues for sure we're currently screen 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:34.199 recording what about I stop screen recording there we go 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:36.759 minimums of 230 now so I guess that this 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:41.280 is not a super happy GPU when you are screen recording and gaming at the same 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:46.280 time I was expecting a little bit better which kind of is just everything about 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:50.599 the GPU in this I was expecting a little bit better I really feel like that they 00:06:47.919 --> 00:06:54.800 could have had quite a bit more cooling back here and then we would have been 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:59.800 quite a bit more positive about this it does really seem like this chassis was 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:02.479 designed around a 4050 which has that 50 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:08.840 wat TDP and you are not getting everything out of a 4060 or a 4070 our 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:13.919 lab compared this to a 4060 in the Asus G14 which In fairness is a gaming laptop 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:19.960 does have quite a bit more power but the 4060 in that absolutely walked all over 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:25.160 the 4070 that we have in our Acer right here so just do not buy the 4070 version 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:31.759 of this laptop you are not getting a 4070 you are getting at best just a very 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:37.680 expensive 40 60 the worst part of all of this is that their configs kind of suck 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:43.120 so if you need 32 GB of RAM like maybe you're a video editor or a photo editor 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:47.000 and you just want a GPU even though you don't really need all of that 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:51.919 performance you need to get one of the higher end gpus to get the RAM that you 00:07:49.479 --> 00:07:56.039 will need this is really too bad because the 4050 in this I think would be 00:07:54.120 --> 00:08:00.800 perfect you can do almost everything it's nice it's pretty light screen's 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:05.599 amazing but it is really really throttled once you put those higher end 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:11.440 gpus into it that said though for gaming I am having a really great time on this 00:08:08.479 --> 00:08:15.879 that 120 HZ display plus the OLED we measured as having nearly perfect 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:21.080 latency all right let's test the speakers I do not have High Hopes 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:25.280 everything from Acer that I have tested in the last couple years has frankly 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:30.039 sucked ass you guys really need to improve your 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:36.519 speakers okay that's that's better than I expected 00:08:32.479 --> 00:08:39.159 although still not great it's 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:44.760 uh kind of harsh kind of just bad sounding if I'm 00:08:42.479 --> 00:08:50.959 honest oh H there are different spatial audio 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:54.160 modes in this and traditional just sounds way better 00:08:54.279 --> 00:09:00.320 than so we have games and ener oh 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:06.200 wow just turn that off sounds okay in 00:09:03.880 --> 00:09:10.839 the normal just stereo mode when you have the spatial stuff on it sounds like 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:15.480 butt it does sound wider but it sounds like butt oh we do have some down firing 00:09:13.160 --> 00:09:20.120 speakers on the side so let's just verify that we don't get it 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:28.560 better nah it still kind of sucks Acer you genuinely need to have a big think 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:33.320 and go and improve your speakers they are a massive low light on all of your 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:38.920 laptops at the moment all right let's look at the webcam this thing is 1080P 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:44.560 and it is awful uh I am completely blown out and also very red looking uh moving 00:09:42.640 --> 00:09:49.680 over here I am still very redl looking and kind of under exposed and blown out 00:09:46.560 --> 00:09:52.880 at the same time moving over here uh 00:09:49.680 --> 00:09:56.720 yeah it's incredibly noisy and blown out 00:09:52.880 --> 00:09:58.839 and under exposed at the same time oh is 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:02.399 genuinely terrible this is a tier of webcam 00:09:59.959 --> 00:10:08.880 that I have not seen on a laptop in a while this thing sucks oh look at that 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:13.079 we also do not get Windows hello facial recognition but we do have a fingerprint 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:18.399 sensor right over here which is a nice little addition the battery itself is 76 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:23.440 wat hours and it was able to last in our endurance test for 7 hours and 37 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:27.880 minutes which is really quite good given the power of this thing and also the 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:33.160 fact that it has an OLED display now looking in here first first of all no 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:38.240 upgradable RAM it is just soldered down we can see the chips right there which 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:42.200 is very very sad because as I said before this would be a much better 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:47.839 laptop if you're able to combine the 4050 with 32 GB of RAM because you're 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:53.360 not getting much more than 4050 performance anyway and we can very 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:55.560 easily see why right here this is a very 00:10:53.360 --> 00:11:00.600 anemic cooler we have two little heat pipes that go down here for the CPU and 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:06.639 the GPU which explains our CPU was at 102° while we were playing rocket league 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:08.160 and it's just not enough we we need more 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:12.639 Cooling in this if you want to put a 4070 in this Acer it's just not 00:11:10.680 --> 00:11:18.120 acceptable for this class of GPU also in here we do have upgradeable 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:22.680 SSD and an upgradeable Wi-Fi card which I do really like to see because maybe 60 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:26.079 is pretty good right now maybe you want Wi-Fi 8 in the future or something like 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:30.079 that you can just Chuck it in right there and it probably will work I was 00:11:28.079 --> 00:11:34.120 going to go grab a double-sided SSD but I don't even have to there is so much 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:38.600 room underneath this SSD that you're going to have no trouble at all putting 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:44.800 a double-sided SSD in right there overall the Acer Swift x14 I do think is 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:49.560 a really good laptop even if it is flawed in some ways I do really wish 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:53.560 that I had a bit more Cooling and that would mean that you could have more than 00:11:50.959 --> 00:11:58.240 the 4050 in this but that said if you want to get the 4050 model which you 00:11:55.839 --> 00:12:03.959 probably should it's going to start at $1,400 the one that we have speced here 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.839 is more like 1,700 which I don't think 00:12:03.959 --> 00:12:11.480 is a good buy cuz you are not getting value out of that 470 that said you do 00:12:08.839 --> 00:12:16.560 get a decent keyboard great trackpad it's nice and light and that OLED screen 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:20.480 is freaking fantastic so if you're looking for something that can just 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:26.199 cover all of your bases if you want to do video editing photo editing 00:12:23.079 --> 00:12:29.199 gaming professional work office stuff 00:12:26.199 --> 00:12:31.680 it's it can do all of it incredibly comp 00:12:29.199 --> 00:12:36.399 competently and in particular the lowest of the lowest end model which doesn't 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:41.440 get the OLED screen and only a 3050 that thing's on sale for 800 bucks 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:46.240 right now and that sounds absolutely fantastic there you go if you want a 00:12:43.839 --> 00:12:53.480 MacBook Pro but do not have MacBook Pro money I do not think that the Acer Swift 00:12:48.680 --> 00:12:53.480 x14 is something to scoff at Belle