Swift 5 of Acer is about to be launched as its brand new addition in the very famous series of ConceptD. This company is sure to bring surprises to the end. So let’s go on this journey…
Acer- An introduction
This company can be said as ancient as it was found around 44 years ago i.e. in the year, 1946, by Stan Shih, Carolyn Yeh (w/o Stan Shih), and George Huang. This company has its headquarters in Taiwan in the New Tapei region.
I don’t think this computer hardware company requires an introduction cause it been a pretty old racer in the market and is aware of all the moves you can even think of. Acer brings out the best of Desktops, Laptops, Servers, Smartphones, and other computer hardware and accessories for its various users all around the world.
This company began with selling just a bunch of electronics with less capital of around $25,000. It also came up with its very own Micro-Professor MPF-I training kit and other products such as clones of Apple II.
These products made it a very significant player in the international Computer market and this company was later renamed as Acer. This milestone was achieved in the year 1987.
Then there was no turning back for Acer and it came up with 5 divisions for their own company’s benefit. The five divisions were- Acer International Service Group, Acer Sertek Service Group, Acer Semiconductor Group, Acer Information Products Group, and Acer Peripherals Group.
The very struggle of this company made it cross the $10 billion mark in the year 2006 and it reached up to $11.3 billion of revenue while having mere 7,800 employees under it.
And finally, Acer started its very own international ventures and gained access to the markets of North America, Europe, Indonesia, India, Australia, and many other economically important countries, in no time.
As far as India is concerned, the Acer India (Pvt) Limited was set up in the form of a subsidiary of Acer. It came up with laptops, desktops, and low profile notebooks for education purposes. The headquarters is in Bangalore city and was set up in the year 1999 and I must add that it has been giving its best.
Some of the remarkable series of Acer which deserves to be mentioned in this article are, Acer Value Line, Extensa series, Acer Iconia, Acer Aspire, Acer Predator, Acer Travelmate, and not to forget, the Acer Swift and Concept D series.
Along with these brilliant series, Acer also came up with various other brands such as Predator, Xplova, Packard Bell, eMachines and many more.
As far as marketing strategies are concerned, Acer has sponsored a lot of economically important events and companies. Most of them were related to sports or racing events like, in the year 2000, Acer was the sponsor for the BAR-Honda Formula Race racing team.
Int the year 2001, Acer was the sponsor for Grand Prix and most of the engines of Ferrari were badged as Acer.
Later on, Acer achieved a milestone by being the sponsor for FC Barcelona, for 2 consecutive years i.e. 2007-2009, and was the Top partner of the London 2012, Summer Olympics.
The Notebook- Acer Swift 5-
Acer is proposing to launch this notebook, in this very year, i.e. 2020 as a new addition its very popular series, Concept D namely Swift 5.
This laptop looks really as it was on dieting but forgot to switch back to normal (bad joke!). This is way lighter than its other counterparts and weighs around 2.2 pounds or so to say 997.033 grams which are nearly 1 kg.
Such lightweight laptop packed with amazing technology is so hard to believe to exist, I mean, where is technology heading to!
Let’s talk about its specifications. Swift 5 named laptop has a 13-inch screen which is of 1080p resolution, making a good hd display. The overall size measure about 12.5 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches in size.
If we talk about the processor power, it has a Core i7-1065G7 processor in the CPU, while the GPU is of Intel Iris Plus kind, along with 8 GB RAM and 512 GB of storage space. The battery is of the 9:07 type providing 20 hours of battery time on a single charge.
This laptop is of great use for people who are looking for a portability-rich device, since its not the fastest laptop, I must add. Acer has done way better than this.
But if we talk about it being lightweight, then it outweighs most of its counterparts like Macbook Air, Surface Laptop 3, and even the Lenovo ThinkPad CarbonX1.
Some of the remarkable features of Swift 5 which needs to be told are the presence of a fingerprint sensor on the deck and a small notch to easily lift the lid.
Now if we talk about the availability of ports, we have on the left side, there is the presence of Thunderbolt 3 bolt USB3.1 Type-A Input along with an HDMI connection.
On the right side, we have another type-A USB3.1 port along with a headphone jack and a Kensington lock. It seems that no laptop wants to include the classic CD drive port. It was vanished like, years ago!
Swift 5 is available in many colors which include Gold, Silver, and a little dab of green with Indigo which has golden letters on the keyboard along with the magnesium-alloy chassis which invites portability as the evident factor.
Just like its other counterpart of Asus, this laptop also has the power button, right next to the delete button, which is of the same size and shape. Most of the people just end up switching off the laptop, instead of deleting stuff, which really is annoying! I would like to regard it as a drawback of this device.
That’s all folks!
I sincerely hope that this article helps you to choose this laptop for you and you may have that little nugget of knowledge proven useful.
No matter what, this laptop is just another amazing product by the 44 years old company which has vowed to keep on bringing such great hardware products for their users and in the near future, I am quite sure that the experience of the users will enhance a lot and they will get what they need.
No matter what, Acer has and always be the Racer!