Acer Swift 16 AI Review: A Bargain 16-Inch Laptop

Thankfully, the touchpad is the perfect size, made of Gorilla Glass and featuring a crisp response when depressed. You won’t be able to miss the added lighting effect in the top-right corner. This purely decorative effect oddly pulses whenever you’re using an AI app (or when you press the Copilot key). It's supposed to pulse at startup, but this didn't happen in my tests. Either way, I found the pulsing effect quite soothing and ultimately wished there was an easy way to keep it on all the time. Alas, the bundled AcerSense software only lets you turn it off, with no configuration options. The overall design is fairly no-nonsense—an aluminum shell with a soft-touch powder coating, entirely black with little more than the Acer logo to interrupt it. It won’t turn heads, unless you catch folks ogling that pulsing touchpad effect. Performance is slightly better than expected from a unit with a fairly low-end CPU and the bare minimum of RAM. You won’t find yourself waiting for browser page ... Read full article.