
Acer Swift 16 AI Review: A Bargain 16-Inch Laptop
Christopher Null
created: April 24, 2025, 1:30 p.m. | updated: April 28, 2025, 12:01 p.m.
This purely decorative effect oddly pulses whenever you’re using an AI app (or when you press the Copilot key).
You won’t find yourself waiting for browser pages to load or spreadsheets to recalculate—even AI tasks like real-time translation were responsive in my testing.
Major props for Acer’s thermal management here: I couldn’t even get the fan to kick in no matter what I threw at the Swift AI, and the device stayed comfortably cool throughout my testing.
The only major complaint I found during testing involved charging the device, as the Swift AI did not like charging via a third-party power brick.
Quite strangely, once the battery had some charge from the official adapter, the third-party adapter began to work fine.
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