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expired Posted by Dr.W • Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024 1:52 AM
Prime Members: Acer Swift Go 14: 14" 2.8K 90Hz OLED, Core Ultra 5 125H, 16GB LPDDR5, 512GB SSD $599.99
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The 32gb ram, AMD Ryzen 7 5700U variant seems a better bang for the buck for only $30 more ($700 with a clickable 10% coupon)
The 32gb ram, AMD Ryzen 7 5700U variant seems a better bang for the buck for only $30 more ($700 with a clickable 10% coupon)
The 32gb ram, AMD Ryzen 7 5700U variant seems a better bang for the buck for only $30 more ($700 with a clickable 10% coupon)
OLED screens are still pretty rare and it's very bright at 400 nits- 300 nits is a decent brightness and 250 is common in cheaper laptops.
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OLED screens are still pretty rare and it's very bright at 400 nits- 300 nits is a decent brightness and 250 is common in cheaper laptops.
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Costco was selling one of these, maybe still is for $649 with i7 Ultra 155H, 16, 1 TB but without the OLED screen and instead an IPS panel, 60hz, 2k res.
This was a sweet deal and let's see how this guy turns out.
For those who care:
I'm in the market for a new machine, and had also picked up the Lenovo slim 7 from Costco. Great little machine with many pluses, but it's 1200p OLED @ 60hz left me wanting since it's 2024 and will want to hold on to the machine for at least a few years. It did however have a healthy 32GB ram, i7 ultra 155H, 1 TB. The ram "feels" important because it is soldered in all of such machines. It was $949.
Also tried a ASUS G14 zephyrus. Gaming machine technically but really portable with nice power and great OLED @ 120hz. No touch though. I do use touch enough on my laptops to want it.
But at this price point and with these balanced specs, this might take the cake. The camera on this was by far the best I've yet to encounter, and left me impressed since I interacted with the Costco variant.
Thanks Doc for posting this and your other laptop deals. You're valued and appreciated.
Costco was selling one of these, maybe still is for $649 with i7 Ultra 155H, 16, 1 TB but without the OLED screen and instead an IPS panel, 60hz, 2k res.
This was a sweet deal and let's see how this guy turns out.
For those who care:
I'm in the market for a new machine, and had also picked up the Lenovo slim 7 from Costco. Great little machine with many pluses, but it's 1200p OLED @ 60hz left me wanting since it's 2024 and will want to hold on to the machine for at least a few years. It did however have a healthy 32GB ram, i7 ultra 155H, 1 TB. The ram "feels" important because it is soldered in all of such machines. It was $949.
Also tried a ASUS G14 zephyrus. Gaming machine technically but really portable with nice power and great OLED @ 120hz. No touch though. I do use touch enough on my laptops to want it.
But at this price point and with these balanced specs, this might take the cake. The camera on this was by far the best I've yet to encounter, and left me impressed since I interacted with the Costco variant.
Thanks Doc for posting this and your other laptop deals. You're valued and appreciated.
Performance is snappy, don't notice difference in performance between this ultra 5 and an ultra 7 in MY use case. Getting 10-11 hrs battery life on Acer's silent battery profile. Heat management is very decent (in this mode). Can get hotter in performance mode. Keyboard is great and so is its backlight. The camera is phenomenal at 1440p. Good low light performance.
This OLED version seems to have a different version of the trackpad than the version I saw at Costco with a FHD+ screen. While this trackpad doesn't have media buttons, it is bigger and slicker (for scrolling and multi finger gestures), and has a more satisfying click than a majority of other recent machines I've used.
Build quality is great and left me impressed. This guy has an empty M.2 slot for an additional ssd if you'd like to add down the line and a microSD for immediate storage expansion.
The only negative I have is the speakers. While they have great quality and range to acoustics, they lack in sheer volume and could be louder. Perfectly fine in a silent room but even in moderately noisier environments, they'll leave you wishing that you had more volume.
Do note it does not have a touchscreen and does not have a windows hello based webcam. Instead they have a very reliable fingerprint reader within the power button. Works perfectly and I much prefer it the facial recognition anyways.
All in all, Punches way above its weight class.
Did you end up getting it that day, or miss out?
Performance is snappy, don't notice difference in performance between this ultra 5 and an ultra 7 in MY use case. Getting 10-11 hrs battery life on Acer's silent battery profile. Heat management is very decent (in this mode). Can get hotter in performance mode. Keyboard is great and so is its backlight. The camera is phenomenal at 1440p. Good low light performance.
This OLED version seems to have a different version of the trackpad than the version I saw at Costco with a FHD+ screen. While this trackpad doesn't have media buttons, it is bigger and slicker (for scrolling and multi finger gestures), and has a more satisfying click than a majority of other recent machines I've used.
Build quality is great and left me impressed. This guy has an empty M.2 slot for an additional ssd if you'd like to add down the line and a microSD for immediate storage expansion.
The only negative I have is the speakers. While they have great quality and range to acoustics, they lack in sheer volume and could be louder. Perfectly fine in a silent room but even in moderately noisier environments, they'll leave you wishing that you had more volume.
Do note it does not have a touchscreen and does not have a windows hello based webcam. Instead they have a very reliable fingerprint reader within the power button. Works perfectly and I much prefer it the facial recognition anyways.
All in all, Punches way above its weight class.
Did you end up getting it that day, or miss out?
I didn't know about the silent battery profile and will need to give it a try! And yes the fingerprint sensor is blazing fast and accurate, best I've seen on a laptop so far.
Thank you for following up and sharing your knowledge. Makes me feel even better about the purchase.
I didn't know about the silent battery profile and will need to give it a try! And yes the fingerprint sensor is blazing fast and accurate, best I've seen on a laptop so far.
Thank you for following up and sharing your knowledge. Makes me feel even better about the purchase.
Yes, you should check out the silent profile. It will be found in the AcerSense app. You can just hit the search bar and type it in to find, or you can also use the "a" key, the third one from the top right corner of the keyboard to access the same.
It's a great app to explore and optimize various laptop settings (rather than solely windows settings) that Acer brings to the table. I've realized using and testing so many machines that we should give a chance to OEMs to really experience their engineering, rather than being Windows purists.
Some tips for you:
I would recommend you turn on "optimized battery charging", which will limit charging to 80%, thereby extending your overall battery age at the cost of limiting user experienced battery capacity, which is a small price to pay.
You can control if the USB port on the laptop, serves as a charging port, even when the laptop is turned off. This feature is turned on by default, and is priceless in a pinch if we want to use our laptop as a battery bank for your other gadgets.
Within the same app, you can also control various OLED optimization settings, so you can reduce the chance of image burn-in.
You can also change the keyboard, backlight timeout settings from the Acer bios. It is set by default to 30 seconds I believe, and this does of course help save battery life. You can change it to never, if the time out is not convenient for your use case.
Please explore and feel free to ask questions. I'm glad it helped.
Yes, you should check out the silent profile. It will be found in the AcerSense app. You can just hit the search bar and type it in to find, or you can also use the "a" key, the third one from the top right corner of the keyboard to access the same.
It's a great app to explore and optimize various laptop settings (rather than solely windows settings) that Acer brings to the table. I've realized using and testing so many machines that we should give a chance to OEMs to really experience their engineering, rather than being Windows purists.
Some tips for you:
I would recommend you turn on "optimized battery charging", which will limit charging to 80%, thereby extending your overall battery age at the cost of limiting user experienced battery capacity, which is a small price to pay.
You can control if the USB port on the laptop, serves as a charging port, even when the laptop is turned off. This feature is turned on by default, and is priceless in a pinch if we want to use our laptop as a battery bank for your other gadgets.
Within the same app, you can also control various OLED optimization settings, so you can reduce the chance of image burn-in.
You can also change the keyboard, backlight timeout settings from the Acer bios. It is set by default to 30 seconds I believe, and this does of course help save battery life. You can change it to never, if the time out is not convenient for your use case.
Please explore and feel free to ask questions. I'm glad it helped.
Anything you did remove/uninstall? Anything worth changing in BIOS too?
Anything you did remove/uninstall? Anything worth changing in BIOS too?
As far as uninstalling, of course I got rid of Mcafee the fastest. Some other shortcuts, like booking.com, Facebook, etc. uninstalled Dropbox, Evernote.
I kept all the Acer stuff and slowly chose to explore it. Found enough use cases within each to want to keep. It was easy to opt out of data collection and advertising from each of their apps, if any.
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As far as uninstalling, of course I got rid of Mcafee the fastest. Some other shortcuts, like booking.com, Facebook, etc. uninstalled Dropbox, Evernote.
I kept all the Acer stuff and slowly chose to explore it. Found enough use cases within each to want to keep. It was easy to opt out of data collection and advertising from each of their apps, if any.
And my first thought was to adjust the keyboard backlight, so you saved me a ton of time I would have searched in the Acer apps or OS. Had no idea it was in BIOS!
I too, opt out of all 'diagnostic' collection settings. Sooo annoying.
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