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8.3 / 10
SCORE Acer Swift Go 16 (2025) $1,150 at Acer Pros Gorgeous OLED display
Excellent productivity performance
Fairly well priced for what's on offer Cons Disappointing battery life
Bizarre, narrow number pad
Pricing inconsistencies
Acer's latest iteration of the Swift Go 16 line spans a wide gamut of roles and prices. It's designed to fill out a large swath of Acer's thin-and-light catalog below the high-performance Swift X models, offering productivity options for a variety of budgets.
At the low end of the Swift Go 16 series, you'll find sub-$1,000 machines with a focus on providing large screens in lightweight packages. At the high end, like the machine I reviewed, the focus pivots to providing an attractive OLED screen backed by a high-performance processor, all squeezed into a slim chassis without a bank-breaking price. It's an improvement across the board from previous generations, including design, performance and specs.
However, as always, some sacrifices are made. Acer chose to eschew dedicated graphics and battery endurance to focus on productivity and the display. While the company's choices are sensible for a laptop with this profile, they do mean the potential audience is narrower.
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