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This Acer laptop has a game-changing feature for multimedia consumption (and it's $300 off)

ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) is on sale now at B&H for $599. It's a lightweight, responsive laptop with a touchscreen, and a slick media playback menu. However, for a laptop so optimized for media, its speakers aren't the best. $599 at B&H Photo-Video The 14-inch Acer Swift Go was among the first round of laptops to come loaded with Intel's Meteor Lake AI processors last year, and it does so for $899 (on sale now for $599), a mid-range price point right in the sweet spot

Acer Swift 14 AI review: give it up for the ports

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. The Acer Swift 14 is all over AI the place. It has powerful chip options, exceptional battery life, and loads of ports for such a portable laptop. The keyboard and trackpad are solid, which is not always a given at any price. But the screen and webcam are mediocre, and the speakers are outright terrible. Battery life, performance, and

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Taylor Swift once put Apple on blast and prompted big Apple Music change

Apple and Taylor Swift are each bigger successes today than ever before. 10 years ago though, they found themselves on opposite sides of a major issue that could have unraveled the successful launch of Apple Music. Here’s what happened. Apple’s transition to streaming music faced a critical last-minute challenge 10 years ago, Apple was gearing up for its highly anticipated launch of Apple Music. The company had spent $3 billion to acquire Beats, with a major motivator being the buzzy Beats Mu

I Tested the Acer Swift 14 AI and Found This Copilot Plus PC Is Missing One Key Feature

7.0 / 10 SCORE Acer Swift 14 AI 2025 $1,030 at Amazon Pros Incredibly long battery life Sturdy build quality Comfortable keyboard and large trackpad feel great to use 1440p webcam Cons Too pricey to not include OLED display Integrated Qualcomm Adreno GPU is limited Can't disable goofy illuminated AI logo on touchpad The Acer Swift 14 AI is a Copilot Plus PC with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X series CPU, which means it delivers incredible battery life -- longer than 24 hours! -- and comes equipp

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macOS apps can now render 3D scenes directly on Apple Vision Pro, hinting at a tethered headset

Apple’s WWDC25 developer sessions are packed with interesting tidbits that didn’t get stage time on the keynote or the State of the Union presentation. One in particular, highlighted briefly during What’s new in SwiftUI, could offer the first real hint at where visionOS is heading next. A couple of months ago, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple was readying two new Vision Pro headsets. One aims to be lighter and more affordable than the current version, while the other is said to be a

Beyond ChatGPT: Xcode 26 will support multiple AI models, like Claude

Last Monday, towards the end of the WWDC25 keynote, Craig Federighi said that Apple had “expanded” its vision for Swift Assist, and it would now allow developers to bring their Large Language Model of choice directly to Xcode. Now, we know more about how this is going to work. What is Swift Assist? This was a feature that Apple announced during last year’s WWDC, but hadn’t released until now, on Xcode 26 beta. Initially, as explained by Apple, it was going to serve as: “a companion for all o