Acer's Swift 3X is one of the first laptops to feature Intel's Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, boosting performance considerably for design and creation work. Is it worth the modest price?
Acer Swift 3X review: not quite swift enough
Newer, but not quite better May 20, 2021, 12:54pm EDT
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Yep, this is a Swift. It has all the features that characterize Acer’s Swift line: a thin body, a lustrous Acer logo, a chassis so light it’s hard to believe you’re holding a laptop and not an empty shell. But the 3X is targeting a slightly different market from the Swift 3 and Swift 5 for one reason alone: it has a discrete GPU.
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The Bread-and-Butter Surface
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