Acer Swift 3, 15.6" Full HD, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10, SF315-41-R8PP

Ive got this laptop today and so far its been looking pretty good. I wanted to switch from my $1200 rog Asus gaming laptop since the battery life was very short and it was heavy. I didnt feel like spending that much money on a laptop that now I hardly use since it was originally made for college. I want a slimmer and more lightweight design but looks professional and a good battery life. My original laptop only lasted for about an hour. This one claims to last for 8 hours but more like 4-6 hours depending on what you do. I dont really care because I will hardly use this outside of my house. So far I really like it. I did a lot of research on a good laptop that I could spend and use for years. I will highly recommend this one. I will keep you guys updated if anything happens. The one thing I do not like about this is how the battery life how it tell you how long it has will go from telling you have no time left to a lot and back and forth. EDIT: After hardly using it it froze and crashed and had to restart. MAY 2019 THE SCREEN WENT BLACK. I BARELY USE IT

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I absolutely love this machine, Acer Swift 3 SF315-41G-R6MP - for the price, the build quality and specs are impeccable. I dont see anywhere else I can get as good a deal as this one. But I returned it. If you dont care about the three small things that Im writing about here, you are in good luck and you should DEFINITELY buy it! I was pretty bummed that I had to return it. Id say this is a break-up note AND a love letter to Acer with a "its not you its me". 1) Gorgeous and Expensive Corning Gorilla Screen - its so beautiful but it hurts my eyes with reflection - I wish Im not so wimpy. For the price the screen is tremendous value but ..... 2) Coil Whine - Its obvious and gives me instant headache. But some people dont even hear it.....so. Maybe the one you receive does not have coil whine at all. Its pure luck thats what I heard. 3) HDMI port is 1.4 NOT 2.0. I called Acer to have this confirmed. From my experience, if a seller does NOT list the kind of HDMI on a certain model, Im sure its only HDMI 1.4. Even expensive models nowadays still give people HDMI 1.4a or 1.4b. The difference is that when you connect the laptop to an external 4K monitor, you can see that HDMI 1.4a or 1.4b only supports up to 30Hz, while HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort 1.4 supports at least 4K@60Hz. If you are doing video editing or even just light gaming, you can feel the eye strain between a 4K@30Hz and a 4K@60Hz. Although this laptop has a decent discreet graphics card (Radeon 540), I do not get to enjoy the good graphics on an external monitor due to the bottle neck of a HDMI 1.4 port. But if you only use the machine without external monitors, or use it only with low spec external monitors, and do not care about glare from the screen or coil whine from the machine, this is definitely a terrific value with good looks.

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