Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Acer Swift 7, 13.3" Full HD, 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7Y75, 8GB LPDDR3, 512GB SSD, Windows 10, Luxury Gold SF713-51-M51W

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2021

I love Acer Swift product line and enjoy the thin, lightweight design. Unfortunately the one I received was so old, that the battery had dried up. Even after charging it 24 hours, it was still undetectable. I returned the laptop, but still have not received the refund from the seller. Beware!

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J. Sutherland

Great Laptop for travel really lightweight

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018

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First I love the weight of this computer. We travel a lot and need a lightweight laptop and this is perfect. The black case smudges easy and shows fingerprints. The keyboard is a little dark and hard to see if there is not a lot of light. I accidentally hit the numlock and couldn't find the key because it is dark and very small writing and abbreviated. Other than that it is a great travel laptop.

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TenguSoul

DO NOT ORDER FROM AMAZON (DEAD BATTERY)

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2018

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(First off, let me just say the laptop is great. Don't let the rest of my review scare you off from tracking down one of these bad boys. Just because the battery cant hold up to amazons horrid storage conditions doesn't mean acer makes bad batteries, as I've had amazon mail me dead batteries from all kinds of brands.)

SO so many different times I have ordered something from amazon only to have the thing arrive in perfect condition with a perfectly dead battery. So dead that it wont even charge. Well it has happened yet again. If you DO order via amazon fulfillment expect to be calling acer customer care for 20 minutes while they walk you through everything you just did realizing the battery is fully dead. The laptop works great as long as I keep it plugged in, but if i lose power or anything it'll immediately shut off as i have a nice little battery icon with an X in it saying "No battery detected". Took the bottom case off and double checked it was connected fine. When I try to charge it the orange light comes on for maybe 6 seconds and then turns off. Bleh.

So for now I get to enjoy my shiny new laptop while I wait on a acer customer care shipping label to come in the mail.

Speakers arent anything to write home about, but they get decently loud, laptop is fast, smooth, bought it for basic documents and web browsing and then "thin and light" gimmick and that's what I love about it. It's a little top heavy but I don't notice it when im typing, if I'm just using the trackpad it does lift up a tad even with the screen tilted maybe an inch back from a 90 degree angle. but I think that's just what you're going to get with a nice gorilla glass screen. Cant say anything about the battery life (HA HA NOT FUNNY) but it turns on super fast.

I bought this because I gave my $1400 lenovo ideapad to my wife and that was my favorite laptop. Once I get a fresh battery in this thing it'll be my new favorite im sure :)

If anything else goes wrong i'll definitely come back and update the review.

UPDATE:
My laptop arrived at acer repair center on monday and was repaired within 3 hours and immediately shipped back out. got here on wednesday at noon. Haven't had any other problems thus far, new battery works perfect, this thing is amazingly power efficient and gives a great boost of speed to itself whenever it needs it.

UPDATE:
Brightness. Lots of reviews talk about it juuuust needs like one more tick on the brightness level to give videos that pop they need. I have to agree, I did however go into the intel graphics settings and turn the contrast from 50 to 51 and it's actually a noticeable difference where i feel it 98% compensates for that missing brightness tick. I WILL say for typing in Word i would never need full brightness in my living room even with the base settings. These comparisons are coming from me being used to my HP that could get perfectly bright for videos and too bright for text editing. I feel with contrast at 51 (52 was too much believe it or not, messed with the colors too much) the brightness thing is a non issue for me now.

LATEST UPDATE:
Been using this for a little over a week now every day for several hours at a time after work.

For the brightness I actually ended up taking it down to 50 (default) contrast and for videos I just max the brightness and for typing in Word I do about 2 ticks up from the darkest setting. So brightness is absolutely not a problem for me with this laptop.

After doing a lot of typing on this keyboard they keys actually feel a little jiggly to me. To me that kind of lowers the quality feeling of the keyboard. With that said I really like the short action on them it really helps my typing speed. The key size and placement is also perfect.

This laptop gets really warm when it's charging... on the back of the laptop the heat is from the bottom of the number keys to the back end farthest from the touch pad. In winter this will be a fantastic lap warmer ( wont be TOO hot) but for summer and even now when fall is rolling around I have to have a fan on me or put this on a laptop stand or lapboard. Charges super fast but even when it's fully charged it feels like the heat never calms down unless I unplug it. I wonder if it's because of having battery saver on automatically when it's unplugged? Which you cant turn that on when it's plugged in, there's no low heat mode unless you go into the custom power settings and limit the processor state when plugged in.

There is also a "System cooling policy" setting i am toying with. This laptop is FANLESS meaning in the cooling policy for some reason by default fresh out of the box unplugged is set to "passive" and plugged in is "active". "passive" decreases processor speed to cool before turning on the fan and "active" says "slow the processor before increasing fan speed". So this not having a fan you'd think they'd both need set to "passive". So I'm going to try that, and if that doesn't cool it down noticeably I'm just going to cap the processor speed when plugged in.

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Readsalot

LOVE!

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2019

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I bought my swift 7 last year. I've been using it every day for 10 months without a problem, thank God. I love it!

I'm a teacher and I traveled around a lot with books, etc. for years so I sometimes got neck and shoulder muscle pains and spasms from all the weight. I went digital with classroom materials and opted for ultra-lightweight laptops with long life batteries. Solved my problems. I've been an ultrabook devotee ever since. Of all of the ultrabooks I've had over the years, the Swift 7 is my absolute favorite.

It's so thin that I can stick it in a stack of papers and slide it into my bag and you can barely see it. I don't feel the weight of it at all, yet it's also very strong. I bought a Toto USB C hub to go with it and it connects to everything like a dream. I'm very happy with it.
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Update 2022
4 years of use and it's still going strong, thank God. No problems. I kept up with standard maintenance and it's still great. I'm in the market now for a new laptop just because it's getting a little out-dated. The battery capacity is at 78% of the original and it runs a bit hot when charging now. Otherwise, still a great machine. I'm still in love with it. Sadly, there are no new Swift 7s - especially in this luxury gold color.

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ChoJo

mushy keyboard and mouse pad sluggish

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2018

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Overall it is a reasonable very thin, light weight laptop. Note: it does not have a touchscreen. Touchpad is sluggish. Keyboard is mushy and low resistance, so is not good for touch typing. Speed is modest - not for gaming. Screen is bright and clear with very good detail. Battery life is ~8 hrs doing email and net surfing but only ~ 3-4 hrs when streaming Netflix. Has the classic Acer two piece charger cord that is always coming apart on its own - Acer needs to fix that - one piece charger cord please. Only has USB-C ports but one adapter for USB-3 form factor came with machine - sometimes need two of these for legacy devices. Charger cord also plugs in on same side at 2 USB ports - would be better if was on opposite side. Not the fastest wifi adapter ; downloads are a bit slow and streaming buffers often when viewing HD despite fast wifi speeds noted on other peripherals in same spot in room. Overall pleased but would not likely purchase again. Need better keyboard and faster wifi adapter.

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MOHAMMED HAJJO

Requesting a return

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2023

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I don’t like it cuz I complain about the battery and requested a return

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JUNG-HUNG CHIEN

Terrible laptop

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2019

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I should give 0 star. When I received this item, the windows 10 told me that there is no battery inside. I tried researching all solutions in google in entire afternoon and still could not the solution. So, my conclusion is either the battery is dead or this laptop has severe deficit of the BIOS. I will not buy any computer from acer anymore.

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nuna

WOW!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018

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Wow factor is through the roof!
Been watching this pc for awhile, my biggest hurdle was to transition from Windows 7 to 10. My thoughts on win 10, if I need all the bells and whistles, I'll use my powerful Android tablet or phone.
I use this laptop for business, office & occasional videos which I might add is outstanding. It was easy to set this up similar to windows 7 which I'm happy with. Connecting a USB CDRW was effortless for installing software.
There wasn't a whole lot of bloatware to uninstall as others have mentioned. Boot time is 10 seconds! 1080 HD screen is bright, crisp with rich color. Sound is incredible for a laptop this thin. And "thin" is, well it is called the 'world's thinnest", I can see why. Although now, the new Swift 7 2018 is thinner and $1700 dollars. I'll pass.
The black and gold, the feel of its sturdy metal construction, like a piece of fine jewelry & a bride all decked out on your wedding day. It will turn heads.
I will miss the number keypad for business. I'm not a gamer, I don't demand muscle and power although surpriseingly this pc won't disappoint for a medium demand.
Overall, for me this laptop is well pleasing, should last for years to come.

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Dbur1000

Great Portable PC

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2018

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Great laptop for being on the go and quiet. For me, I was looking for a fanless system despite the loss of performance in those lower wattage chips. This runs all my office applications and usual business stuff great. For other heftier tasks, I have other computers for that, but its hard to beat this for looking nice on the go. The Swift 7 never gets too hot in my opinion even under heavier loads.

The build quality feels great to me. The trackpad is exceptional. It would have been nice to have backlit keys, but it was not really a big deal breaker for me. I am only rarely computing somewhere that dark and don't need to always look at the keyboard anyways. If you dig the slim form factor and gold/black colors its hard to go wrong with this PC.

Also, note the i7 sku has a great fingerprint reader in the trackpad.

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Abdillahi alawy

Display flickering

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021

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Cannot to usb devices or to larger monitors. Does not seem to work well with all these extensions

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