Acer’s Swift Edge laptop is gunning for the MacBook Air

This thin-and-light notebook is particularly airy astatine 2.2 pounds.

Acer is announcing a full slew of caller laptops astatine the Computex 2025 machine amusement successful Taiwan, including the Swift Edge 14 AI that weighs fractional a lb little than the MacBook Air, and the Predator Triton 14 AI for a premix of some gaming and contented creation. There are implicit a twelve caller models from Acer, galore utilizing immoderate of the latest chips from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, and a mates examples moving Qualcomm Snapdragon X and Windows connected Arm. There are besides immoderate caller gaming and creator-focused monitors to spell with them all. 

The caller laptops agelong crossed the wide Acer scope of notebooks, similar the Predator and Nitro lines (gaming), the Swifts (general intent laptops — not Swifties), and Aspire (the cheapest of the cheap). Like Lenovo, Acer isn’t announcing US pricing oregon availability for any of its caller products conscionable yet — that’s reserved for regions similar Europe. Details for the US are expected person to their eventual release, nary uncertainty acknowledgment to the ongoing back-and-forth with tariffs.

The Swift Edge 14 AI is 1 of Acer’s caller laptops I find peculiarly intriguing. It’s a 14-inch Copilot Plus PC (like each the models Acer brands with “AI” successful the name) with Intel’s Lunar Lake spot options, a 2880 x 1800 OLED display, and up to 32GB of RAM / 1TB SSD. It’s besides conscionable 0.37- to 0.65-inches heavy (from its thinnest to thickest points), and weighs somewhat nether 2.2 pounds. For comparison, the M4 MacBook Air is 0.44-inches heavy from beforehand to backmost and weighs 2.7 pounds. The Swift Edge is evidently pursuing the Air’s mold, but Acer manages to acceptable 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, 2 USB-A ports, a headphone jack, and adjacent an HDMI 2.1 larboard successful specified a tiny and airy chassis. It’s expected to commencement astatine €1,599 (about $1,800) successful Europe with availability opening successful June.

On the gaming side, Acer made a reasonably large woody successful my briefing telephone astir the upcoming Predator Triton 14 AI. Unlike thicker gaming laptops that are purely gaming-focused, the Triton seems poised to vie with much portable models similar the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. It weighs astir 3.5 pounds and measures conscionable 0.68 inches astatine its thickest point, truthful it’s meant to easy spell places. It’s got a 14.5-inch 2880 x 1800 120Hz OLED show that should beryllium acceptable for some games and contented creation, arsenic good arsenic a jumbo-sized haptic trackpad that supports an included stylus. Chip-wise, it’s got an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 9 288V processor and a GPU up to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070, with compatibility for Nvidia Studio drivers. But it won’t travel cheap, with a starting terms of €2,999 (about $3,350) erstwhile it launches successful Europe successful July.

Other upcoming laptops from Acer see the Aspire 14 AI / 16 AI (each configurable with AMD, Intel, oregon Qualcomm chips), Swift Go 14 AI and Swift Go 16 AI (the cheaper entries successful the thin-and-light Swift line), and the Predator Helios Neo 14 (a lower-cost introduction successful Acer’s flagship gaming line).

For monitors, Acer has a brace of 27-inch QD-OLEDs, with its flagship Predator X27 X capable to deed 240Hz astatine 4K and the 2560 x 1440 X27U F5 capable to deed a precise precocious 500Hz. They’re expected to tally €1,099 (about $1,230) and €899 ($1,000), respectively, erstwhile they get successful Q3. There are besides lower-cost 32-inch and 34-inch Nitro monitors, and rounding retired the non-gamer offerings are a 6K ProCreator PE320QXT and a enactment of portable monitors.

Acer is flooding the portion with caller laptops, arsenic it often does. We’ll person to spot what US pricing and availability are similar arsenic each of them gets person to release.