The Acer Swift 14 AI is the first laptop with a new Intel Lunar Lake chip I’ve gotten my hands on. Coming off the heels of reviewing Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon and AMDs new Ryzen AI chips, I wasn’t expecting anything mind-blowing out of Intel, but I was expecting more than what I saw from benchmarks and my real-world experience. For that reason, I can’t recommend this laptop for heavy multitaskers, especially students.
Even with a brand-new Intel Core Ultra 7 258V and 32GB of RAM, the laptop’s performance didn’t remain consistently snappy like other laptops I’ve reviewed recently, like the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (Snapdragon X Elite, 16GB RAM) and Asus Zenbook S16 (AMD Ryzen AI 9, 32GB RAM). And I noticed that difference, too. Running multiple programs at once, like Slack and Discord, switching between playing music on Spotify and playing a Netflix video in the background, and running between 20 and 30 open browser tabs (including Google Docs and Google Sheets) at the same time bogged down the laptop after a while.
