One of the thinnest 15-inch notebooks, the Acer Swift 5 has hit a new low for Black Friday. The model’s highest-end variant that comes with 16GB of RAM and an Intel Core i7 chipset has been discounted by 40% on Amazon. The deal — which will run on November 29th from midnight Pacific Time for a mere 45 minutes — brings the Swift 5’s usual $1,399 price down to $839.99, an unrivaled amount for the hardware it offers.
The Acer Swift 5’s headlining feature is its lightweight design. Despite the 15.6-inch screen, it weighs 2.2 pounds, making it lighter than any other laptop in the market. In comparison, the 13-inch MacBook Air is 2.75 pounds and the 15-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop tips the scales at 3.4 pounds. At 0.63-inches, the Acer Swift 5 is also remarkably slender.
Remarkably, Acer has barely cut corners to reach that number. The Acer Swift 5 has an Intel 8th-gen Core i7-8565u processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of onboard SSD storage, a 1080p touchscreen, and a 4670 mAh battery that promises an endurance of about 10 hours.
It also has more ports than most of its competitors including two USB-A, a standard HDMI slot, a USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. On top of that, you’ll find a fingerprint scanner for Windows Hello and a full-size backlit keyboard. It comes preloaded with Windows 10 Home and supports Dolby Audio.
In our Acer Swift 5 review, the only downsides we discovered were the absence of a dedicated GPU option and poor touchpad quality. Apart from that, the Acer Swift 5 is largely a winner, especially at that price.
Thanks to the large screen and ample power, the Acer Swift 5 will be ideal for those who spend most of their time on entertainment or productivity apps. However, if your job involves resource-intensive tasks such as video editing or gaming, it’s not for you since there’s no dedicated GPU.
But you don’t have to settle if those two cons are a dealbreaker for your workflow. There is a range of other laptop sales from manufacturers like Microsoft and Dell you can look into. Head over to our curated deals section to browse more Black Friday and Cyber Week offers.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.