For those who’re an early adopter of Wi-Fi 7, Acer is getting ready to launch one of many first laptops that’ll help the brand new wi-fi expertise.
The PC maker right this moment introduced a refreshed Acer Swift Edge 16 laptop computer, codename SFE16-43, that’s designed to help Wi-Fi 7, which guarantees to theoretically hit speeds of as much as 40Gbps.
Nevertheless, the Swift Edge 16 will solely provide speeds as much as 5.8Gbps with low latency at 2 milliseconds. The disparity is as a result of the tech trade continues to be finalizing the Wi-Fi 7 commonplace and growing the parts to help it. Nonetheless, Acer’s new laptop computer ought to present an enormous velocity increase when in comparison with real-world assessments utilizing Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E, which might hit round 1Gbps or increased, relying on the circumstances.
However in case you purchase the Acer laptop computer, you’ll have to spend money on a Wi-Fi 7 router and subscribe to a house web plan that may attain at the least 5Gbps. The Swift Edge 16 is slated to go on sale in North America in July beginning at $1,299.
The opposite standout characteristic of the Swift Edge 16 is that it comes with AMD’s newly introduced Ryzen 7040 U sequence processors, that are designed to tackle Intel’s “Raptor Lake” and Apple’s M2 chips.
The 16-inch Home windows 11 laptop computer from Acer additionally features a 3,200-by-2,000-pixel OLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge. For graphics, it’s going to depend on both an AMD Radeon 780M or 760M GPU.
Acer designed the Swift Edge 16 to be skinny and light-weight, weighing solely 2.73 kilos. The {hardware} has additionally been encased in a magnesium alloy chassis. Different options embrace a 1440p net digicam, a microSD card reader, two USB4 ports, and a fingerprint reader on the facility button. Full specs will be discovered under.
Customers can anticipate as much as 8.5 hours of battery life over the Swift Edge 16. Keep tuned for our evaluate. Surprisingly, the refreshed product arrives only some months after Acer launched an earlier model of the Swift Edge 16 that incorporates an older AMD chip, together with a 3,840-by-2,400-pixel display screen. So we’re curious to see the variations.
