Acer via eBay has
Acer Swift X 14" Laptop with 2-Year Comprehensive Warranty by Allstate (Certified Refurbished, SFX14-41G-R1S6, Gold) on sale for
$774.39 (discount reflected in cart).
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
Suryasis for finding this deal.
Note: This Certified Refurbished laptop includes a comprehensive two-year warranty serviced by Allstate. See
warranty page for more details.
Specs:
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800U 1.9GHz 8-Core Processor
- 14" 1920x1080 100% sRGB 300-nit IPS Display
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4GB GDDR6 Graphics
- 16GB LPDDR4X Memory
- 512GB PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 (2x2) + Bluetooth 5.2
- Fingerprint Reader
- Backlit Keyboard
- Windows 10 Home
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
- 1x HDMI
- 1x Audio Combo Jack
- 4-Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- Weight: 3.06 lbs
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The Display actually goes brighter than 300 nits, around 330-340 nits.
During normal operation, this laptop is very silent with the fans hardly spinning.
In Short term workloads, it is very powerful, almost beating the 2021 XPS 15 with i7-11800H and 45W RTX 3050 Ti, due to efficiency of the Ryzen Processors.
Acer has released a Firmware Upgrade which enabled the CPU to consume around 35 to 37W sustained power during CPU only workload. Previously it was only 25 to 28 Watt.
Despite having powerful hardware and a small battery, the battery life is actually amazing, 8 Hrs+ with normal usage.
Apart from OLED panels, all the non gaming laptops with IPS panel, have very slow response time, including the highest end ones, like Dell XPS 15. Never heard people saying they are affected by slower response time when watching video.
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I don't get why you'd think a slow response times would be better for movies though
I don't get why you'd think a slow response times would be better for movies though
Some people are more sensitive to stuff like ghosting or stutter than others.
Some people are more sensitive to stuff like ghosting or stutter than others.
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comparing the refresh rate UFO test (https://www.testufo.com/) for reading anything moving was very rough as well.
Only nitpick is the lack of touchscreen, but that's purely subjective. I'll drool over it (more than I already am) if it did have it.
Do you really need the touchscreen? Touchscreens on laptops have generally been useless and have a lot of unnecessary glare added due to most being glossy. For that price you might as well look for a m1 macbook pro or m1 macbook air, the new ones are about to come out so expect the m1 versions to be heavily discounted soon unless you need windows .Easy to find sales for the air at $800 at costco or microcenter every month or so, expect them to go even lower as the new ones come out next month. The build quality/performance/display/battery of the air blows away most windows laptops in that $800 range for general use. Just don't buy if you want to do gaming unless you don't mind tinkering or having a much slimmer gaming library, games that run on the m1 natively have astounding performance for integrated graphics but there is only a handful at the moment
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