Costco Wholesale has for their
Members:
Acer Swift Edge 16" Laptop (SFA16-41-R7SU) for
$899.99. Shipping is $14.99.
Thanks to Community Member
thomman for finding this deal.
Note: You need to be an active Costco Member and signed in to your account to purchase at sale price.
Specs (
source):
- AMD Ryzen 7 6800U Processor
- 16" 3840x2400 OLED 400 nits Display
- 16GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 1TB Solid State Drive
- Wi-Fi 6E (2x2/160) Gig+ and Bluetooth 5.2
- Fingerprint Reader
- Backlit Keyboard
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C DisplayPort
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 (with Power-Off Charging)
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1
- 1x Headphone/Microphone-in Combination Jack
- 1x HDMI
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(My) Pros:
Gorgeous display...I can never go back to anything less that OLED + 500 nits. (Okay, maybe 400, if I really HAD to, lol.)
Good performance for a 'U' class cpu, RAM, and Nvme.
I'm also running a Fedora 38 guestOS in a Hyper-v vm -- great performance for both Win11 and the Fedora vm.
2.5lb about the same as my 12.3" usual ultraportable, making my 'desktop' a true portable option.
Keyboard feels just fine.
No numeric keypad (I wanted a 15.6" or larger without keypad.)
Centered QWERTY and touchpad (again, was on my 'must-have' list).
Ample palm rest space, making typing comfortable.
I am able to consistently get 350Mib - 500Mib wireless-based download (and a smidgen less on upload) Speedtest results (my Google Fiber pipe is 500Mib.)
USB-C power/charging (either of the two ports) is a huge convenience.
On-battery has been at least 7 hours on Win11 power-saver setting. (Haven't tried to do a full drain,)
Cons (non major, just annoyances):
The L-R order is precisely opposite my Surface laptop. (I spent the first few weeks inadvertently putting the unit into suspend mode.)
Can't toggle-lock the key. (Like Surface; that would be a huge convenience).
Win11 is BitLocker enabled by default, which will result in a potentially confusing "Press Y to reset fTPM" message during setup (or just after) for regular use. The message pre-Win11 load, so it seems scary. Just press 'Y'; it just completes Win11 setup for regular/daily use.
Related to the 'fTPM' issue, the wireless nic driver sometimes won't load until you've done that 'Y' action.
I read a few squawks about speaker/sound quality, but I didn't buy this for home stereo quality anyway. They are perfectly fine for music while I'm coding, working out, cooking, etc.
No 32 GB RAM model.
While some of my 'wants' are out of the main, I still highly recommend this model at this price.
Hope this helps.
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Maybe you can get a 3050-based laptop around this price, but it wont have OLED. When someone posts deal about one of those, there will be a bunch who say how 3050 is useless for any gaming anyway
Plus, you get that +1year warranty with costco.
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I placed an order for the LG but I'm tempted to cancel the order and return it in favor for this one... especially because I can get $300 off from this by returning a 2018 dell xps13.
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(My) Pros:
Cons (non major, just annoyances):
- The [delete][On/Off] L-R order is precisely opposite my Surface laptop. (I spent the first few weeks inadvertently putting the unit into suspend mode.)
- Can't toggle-lock the [fn] key. (Like Surface; that would be a huge convenience).
- Win11 is BitLocker enabled by default, which will result in a potentially confusing "Press Y to reset fTPM" message during setup (or just after) for regular use. The message pre-Win11 load, so it seems scary. Just press 'Y'; it just completes Win11 setup for regular/daily use.
- Related to the 'fTPM' issue, the wireless nic driver sometimes won't load until you've done that 'Y' action.
- I read a few squawks about speaker/sound quality, but I didn't buy this for home stereo quality anyway. They are perfectly fine for music while I'm coding, working out, cooking, etc.
- No 32 GB RAM model.
While some of my 'wants' are out of the main, I still highly recommend this model at this price.Hope this helps.
(My) Pros:
Cons (non major, just annoyances):
- The [delete][On/Off] L-R order is precisely opposite my Surface laptop. (I spent the first few weeks inadvertently putting the unit into suspend mode.)
- Can't toggle-lock the [fn] key. (Like Surface; that would be a huge convenience).
- Win11 is BitLocker enabled by default, which will result in a potentially confusing "Press Y to reset fTPM" message during setup (or just after) for regular use. The message pre-Win11 load, so it seems scary. Just press 'Y'; it just completes Win11 setup for regular/daily use.
- Related to the 'fTPM' issue, the wireless nic driver sometimes won't load until you've done that 'Y' action.
- I read a few squawks about speaker/sound quality, but I didn't buy this for home stereo quality anyway. They are perfectly fine for music while I'm coding, working out, cooking, etc.
- No 32 GB RAM model.
While some of my 'wants' are out of the main, I still highly recommend this model at this price.Hope this helps.
Usually OLEDs do as I have yet to find exceptions.
Is there an extra PCIe NVME slot?
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How would you rate the build quality?
I'm debating between this and the Gram 16. Thank you.
How would you rate the build quality?
I'm debating between this and the Gram 16. Thank you.
Usually OLEDs do as I have yet to find exceptions.
Is there an extra PCIe NVME slot?
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