Acer’s New Swift Air 14 Wants to Take on the MacBook Neo, but It May Be Outgunned

Acer’s new Swift Air 14 wants to take on the MacBook Neo, but it may be outgunned

Acer has just unveiled its answer to the MacBook Neo. The Swift Air 14 brings Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips, a 70Wh battery, a 120Hz display, and more ports, but Apple’s $599 laptop may still be hard to beat.

Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM

The Acer Swift Air 14. To compete against the Neo, you apparently have to cop another, more common MacBook name. | Image: Acer Acer is aiming to take on the MacBook Neo more directly with a new Swift Air 14, a new 14-inch laptop that starts at $699. The laptop will use Intel's lower-cost Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" chips - either Core 5 or Core 7 models, both of which are six-core processors. It comes in green, pink, purple, and a gray-ish blu…

Windows PC Industry Reacts to Apple's Most Affordable MacBook Ever

A few months ago, Apple released the MacBook Neo, its most affordable MacBook ever. At the time, an ASUS executive admitted that the laptop came as a "shock" to the Windows PC industry, which is now in the process of responding. Acer today introduced a Swift Air 14 laptop, with U.S. pricing starting at $699. By comparison, the MacBook Neo starts at $599 with a 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM, or at $499 for college students and educational staff.

Acer Launches New Swift Air 14 Powered by Latest Intel Core Series 3 Processors

Acer today introduced two new Swift laptops—the Acer Swift Air 14 and the Acer Swift Spin 14 AI. Both Windows 11 PCs with dedicated NPUs, the thin-and-light devices feature the latest technology and powerful on-device capabilities to run AI workloads and offer exclusive AI experiences. James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, Acer Inc., remarked: "In addition to a new high-powered convertible laptop, we are delighted to be launching the thin-and-…