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today this my friends is the new world's
thinnest laptop the acer swift 7 and i would forgive you
for not being able to tell the difference between this one and the old
swift 7 based on the name but don't worry you guys uh they've got the
model number sf714
that's how you can tell the difference now i don't condone calling products the
same thing year after year but i'm also not sure facer has the right solution
either way the name is not what counts it's all about
the hardware so let's have a look at what they've managed to cram in here
first up we've got a 7th gen core i7
this time last time it was just a core
i5 so now we've got a core i7 7y6
CPU at a base of 1.3 you can actually see it's turboing to 3.3 gigahertz right
now it's got 8 gigs of memory it's got
256 gigs of storage and it is just 8.98
millimeters thick making it just also
1.15 kilograms so this is among the lightest laptops we have ever seen as
well improvements over the last generation in addition to the CPU also
include a touchscreen display now if you're into that sort of thing
probably the most shocking thing about this guy is the keyboard it has an
amazing amount of travel
for something that is built into something so thin so i think the only
solution is to uh take it apart and find out exactly how they did that now one
thing you are sacrificing it's backlit too look at that one thing you are
sacrificing is that the track pad is no longer clickable so you're gonna need to
do a touch for left and a double touch like that for right but i think if
you're the kind of person who is really into super thin laptops you can probably
make do with that overall i was also impressed by the sturdiness so this is
an aluminum unibody design and it is completely fanless
so how'd they do it well i took the liberty of pre-removing and loosening
most of the screws so i could open this baby up for you
yeah this is when i this is when i have the most fun at these shows
all right let's see if we can get this popped
the easiest way to do it i already tried this once
was to kind of kind of give it a little bend
oh well uh but um
now it's off yeah
okay so how'd they do it so about a
third of the laptop maybe about 25 of it is taken up by this 36 watt hour battery
right here it looks like that is actually two
separate batteries or two separate cells it's
kind of hard to tell i'm not going to get too much into the details here
here's the fanless cooler so they've actually got two heat pipes running from
it so it looks like the heat is going to be dissipated through the keyboard it's
not something i noticed while i was playing around with it so it clearly
doesn't heat up too much but there's your CPU right there and it's basically
just using like copper sheeting as a heat sink really
impressive stuff our storage drive is up here so this is actually a 512 gig drive
but they are planning to ship this with a 256 and then RAM is not upgradable
like the SSD RAM is actually soldered right onto the motherboard it's not 100
clear where it is it might be around here somewhere i don't know i'm not uh
i'm not actually able to comment on that the last thing though that i did want to
cover is that considering the thinness of this thing i o is not bad you got a
power button over here you've got two
usb type cs and would you look at that
a headphone jack huh so it turns out they can put those
things on uh you know super thin computers
so pricing is going to be uh 16.99 us
and availability is i don't know sometime in like the next little bit i
actually didn't ask but uh there you have it
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awesome look at that thing it's so flat
is that pcb even like thinner than usual like the keyboard just goes right
through this is it that's the keyboard