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

The Acer Swift Air 14. To vie against the Neo, you seemingly person to bull another, much communal MacBook name. | Image: Acer

Acer is aiming to instrumentality connected the MacBook Neo much straight with a caller Swift Air 14, a caller 14-inch laptop that starts astatine $699. The laptop volition usage Intel's lower-cost Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" chips - either Core 5 oregon Core 7 models, some of which are six-core processors. It comes successful green, pink, purple, and a gray-ish bluish with an all-aluminum chassis While the Neo is often criticized for its constricted 8GB of RAM, the Swift Air volition commencement with the aforesaid magnitude and beryllium configurable with up to 16GB.

According to Acer's specs, the Swift Air volition beryllium astir the aforesaid value arsenic Apple's Neo astatine 2.76 pounds / 1.25kg, but it volition beryllium a small thicker (12.9mm …

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