{"id":123529,"date":"2022-02-08T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123529"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:48:08","slug":"the-swift-7-the-thinnest-of-the-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/123529-the-swift-7-the-thinnest-of-the-thin","title":{"rendered":"The Swift 7: The thinnest of the thin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The primary idea behind the invention of the laptop was a PC that you could take anywhere.<\/p>\n

A portable machine capable of serving your needs while on the go or far from home. As a result, tech companies have consistently striven to reduce laptops\u2019 weight and overall encumbrance.<\/p>\n

This drive for size reduction led Acer to develop the Swift 7, a laptop that represents the very limits in weight reduction while maintaining a suitable degree of function.<\/p>\n

The specifications<\/h3>\n

However, after using it for an extended period, it becomes crystal clear that this crusade for a lighter laptop has led the Swift 7 to compromise in many aspects of its design.<\/p>\n

Not that you\u2019d suspect this, given its specifications. Featuring a dual-core Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage, one would be inclined to think the Swift 7 is on par with any other laptop given its price, despite its extreme lightness.<\/p>\n

Currently being sold for R30\u00a0000, the Swift 7 is not the cheapest laptop on the market, but you get what was promised.<\/p>\n

Weighing only 890g and with a thickness of 9.95mm, the Swift 7 also boasts a respectable 14-Inch display with touchscreen capabilities.<\/p>\n

A laptop that weighs less than a kilogram is undoubtedly an impressive feat, but it has drawbacks.<\/p>\n

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The Acer Swift 7 is an extremely thin laptop.<\/p><\/div>\n

The drawbacks<\/h3>\n

Due to its compact size and thickness, the laptop, despite the assurances of Acer, feels fragile and too flexible in hand as well as liable to break.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the Swift 7 does not use fan cooling; this succeeds in lowering weight but causes the laptop to become uncomfortably hot while in use.<\/p>\n

When using the Swift 7, you\u2019ll find its keyboard, camera, and touchscreen unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n

The keyboard is squashed and finicky to accommodate its size and makes typing a chore of concentration.<\/p>\n

The webcam, unable to be fitted into the incredible thin screen, has become a small pop-up module above the keyboard that, when in use, effectively films one\u2019s fingers and chest but little in the way of facial features.<\/p>\n

Finally, the touchscreen can best be described as sluggish, requiring several clicks to elicit a response.<\/p>\n

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The Acer Swift 7’s webcam is a pop-out module above its keyboard.<\/p><\/div>\n

And this is while you\u2019re able to use the laptop as the Swift 7 in constant use has a real-world battery capacity for only around 6 hours.<\/p>\n

It also can only use its USB-C cable to charge, so you have to carry around its power brick, which defeats the purpose of having such a lightweight laptop, as even other USB-C cables don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

With an uncomfortable keyboard, glitchy or ineffective functions, and a pedantic and cumbersome charger, the Swift 7 is hardly worth the price, even though it may be so thin.<\/p>\n

The Swift 7 succeeded in being one of the thinnest laptops on the market. Sadly, this came at the cost of it being a good laptop.<\/p>\n

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Read:<\/strong> The best game in March you’ve probably never heard of<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laptops have been getting thinner and thinner, and the Swift 7 is the thinnest of the bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":123535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3036,2168,25694],"class_list":["post-123529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-acer","tag-laptops","tag-swift-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}