World's THINNEST Laptop... AGAIN - Acer Swift 7 v2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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today this my friends is the new world's
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thinnest laptop the acer swift 7 and i would forgive you
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for not being able to tell the difference between this one and the old
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swift 7 based on the name but don't worry you guys uh they've got the
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model number sf714
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that's how you can tell the difference now i don't condone calling products the
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same thing year after year but i'm also not sure facer has the right solution
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either way the name is not what counts it's all about
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the hardware so let's have a look at what they've managed to cram in here
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first up we've got a 7th gen core i7
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this time last time it was just a core
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i5 so now we've got a core i7 7y6
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CPU at a base of 1.3 you can actually see it's turboing to 3.3 gigahertz right
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now it's got 8 gigs of memory it's got
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256 gigs of storage and it is just 8.98
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millimeters thick making it just also
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1.15 kilograms so this is among the lightest laptops we have ever seen as
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well improvements over the last generation in addition to the CPU also
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include a touchscreen display now if you're into that sort of thing
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probably the most shocking thing about this guy is the keyboard it has an
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amazing amount of travel
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for something that is built into something so thin so i think the only
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solution is to uh take it apart and find out exactly how they did that now one
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thing you are sacrificing it's backlit too look at that one thing you are
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sacrificing is that the track pad is no longer clickable so you're gonna need to
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do a touch for left and a double touch like that for right but i think if
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you're the kind of person who is really into super thin laptops you can probably
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make do with that overall i was also impressed by the sturdiness so this is
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an aluminum unibody design and it is completely fanless
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so how'd they do it well i took the liberty of pre-removing and loosening
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most of the screws so i could open this baby up for you
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yeah this is when i this is when i have the most fun at these shows
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all right let's see if we can get this popped
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the easiest way to do it i already tried this once
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was to kind of kind of give it a little bend
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oh well uh but um
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now it's off yeah
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okay so how'd they do it so about a
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third of the laptop maybe about 25 of it is taken up by this 36 watt hour battery
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right here it looks like that is actually two
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separate batteries or two separate cells it's
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kind of hard to tell i'm not going to get too much into the details here
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here's the fanless cooler so they've actually got two heat pipes running from
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it so it looks like the heat is going to be dissipated through the keyboard it's
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not something i noticed while i was playing around with it so it clearly
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doesn't heat up too much but there's your CPU right there and it's basically
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just using like copper sheeting as a heat sink really
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impressive stuff our storage drive is up here so this is actually a 512 gig drive
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but they are planning to ship this with a 256 and then RAM is not upgradable
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like the SSD RAM is actually soldered right onto the motherboard it's not 100
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clear where it is it might be around here somewhere i don't know i'm not uh
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i'm not actually able to comment on that the last thing though that i did want to
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cover is that considering the thinness of this thing i o is not bad you got a
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power button over here you've got two
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usb type cs and would you look at that
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a headphone jack huh so it turns out they can put those
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things on uh you know super thin computers
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so pricing is going to be uh 16.99 us
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and availability is i don't know sometime in like the next little bit i
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actually didn't ask but uh there you have it
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i don't know subscribe check out our other ces 2018 content it's gonna be
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awesome look at that thing it's so flat
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is that pcb even like thinner than usual like the keyboard just goes right
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through this is it that's the keyboard