Hey, how's it going Dave 2d here?
This laptop here holds the current title of the world's thinnest laptop and that is a title that gets transferred between different companies
Different product lines because some company will make a really thin laptop
It's the world's thinnest and then a few months later. Some company will shave off a millimeter here
Millimeter there and just it bounces around between the different brands as to who has the world's thinnest at that time
Right now the Acer Swift 7 has the thinnest title and it's a 9 millimeter thick laptop actually a little bit less than that
if you put it into perspective, there are smartphones that are thicker than this like
It's a very thin device. The build quality is quite good
It's obviously a form factor that is going to inherently be more difficult to keep structural integrity
Because it's so thin but they've done a really good job with it
It's milled aluminum and it's made well now the target demographic for a product like this isn't huge right not everyone's gonna be buying something
super thin just for the sake of buying something thin you got to really need or really want something that looks like this and
I mean
There's some compromises we'll get to those in a little bit but there's a lot of good stuff going on here as well
So the screen is a 14 inch 1080p touch panel. It's bright with vibrant colors great for media consumption. It's bigger
So instead of the 13.3 inch screen that we often see in most ultrabooks
It is a touch bigger, but visually it's not a huge difference. The keyboard is also quite good
I expected this keyboard to be not great because it's such a thin device
Traditionally really thin laptops have kind of mediocre keyboards. This one's pretty good. My one complaint is the layout
There's just a few keys that feel out of place. For example, the Delete and backspace key
They're really close together and I was making a lot of mistakes when I first started using this keyboard
Same with the page up and page down keys. They're just right by the arrow keys
It's just a real tight cluster of stuff that you can hit by accident and it's a very good and comfortable keyboard
But that layout takes a while to get used to there's also a fingerprint sensor on the side
I usually like fingerprint sensors on Windows devices
I can't even think of one that I haven't liked this one for whatever reason
I'm just getting a lot of missed reads and errors like I wasn't able to log in consistently with my finger
Probably one out of every two or three tries at best so it could be a software thing
I hope it's not a hardware thing. But this particular sensor on this review unit wasn't great the components on the inside are
Decent there's nothing in here that's particularly high-powered. It's geared more towards energy efficiency and just low energy consumption
There's also a SIM card in here for constant 4G LTE access it even has an e SIM option
The batter in here is also good
I'm getting around eight hours of use with the screen at 250 nits, and it's charged via us PC
So the performance on this device is okay. It's actually powered by cable a qui processor. So that's the seventh gen stuff
It's fanless and it'll handle any kind of light computer tasks like browsing email media consumption stuff like that
But don't expect any kind of heavy lifting now
There are some compromises when it comes to making thin and light devices like this
Particularly something as thin as this so stuff like ports. There's only two USB ports
They don't support Thunderbolt 3 and there's no use ba ports in terms of the speakers. They're located on the bottom
They don't sound particularly great. They don't get particularly loud. They're I mean, they're ultra book speakers when you compare them
Someone like the MacBook with 12-inch MacBook
similar in size well similar ish
They're both really thin but the 12-inch MacBook speakers just blow these out of the water
Then you have stuff like the webcam, which is located at the bottom of the screen on the bezel
It's something that we see in a lot of thin and light devices
But that's just one of the minor compromises you have to make when it comes to stuff like this
There are some bigger ones though some bigger compromises them in
My opinion are almost deal-breakers for this particular device. The big one for me is the trackpad
This is a trackpad that does not have any moving parts
So the bun mechanic or rather the click mechanic is not even a click. It's a tap
So I've been using this device for a little bit over a week, and I've been using the trackpad frequently
I can't get used to it
It's something that I feel like if you're used to any kind of tactile response with your trackpad
You will find it very difficult to use this
It's not so much the tactility like that's annoying that it's not there, but it's the imprecision
So if you want to do drag and drop it's very difficult to do it on this track pattern
I often find that I'm getting miss clicks or just
unregistered clicks because of the mechanism and I think this is a result or this reason why this trackpad is like this is
because this laptop is so thin I feel like they couldn't put that mechanism of a click or of a
cantilever or any kind of like depression device
Into this super thin form factor and like to me that's not worth it
like if you're gonna do this
If you're gonna build a device like this that cost this kind of money
This this is one of the pillars of use, right?
This is a very very important part of any kind of laptop experience
And if this is no good the trackpad the whole experience feels a little bit shaded and that leads me to my second thing
Because this thing is so thin the price premium on this product is huge. This starts at $1700
That is a lot of money and when you look at the market and you kind of see what else is out there in this
Kind of form factor. There are other devices out there like the Razor Blade Stealth the XPS 13 the LG Gram
They're very similar in overall experience to something like this not as thin but it's still very very portable
So you're paying a pretty big premium on this just because of the ultra thin form factor?
And it's cool that acer or other companies out there are kind of just in that pursuit of thinness
It's cool
But when you step back for a second and kind of look at the overall like reason is this really that useful
Like is there someone out there that really needs something so thin that they can you know, what?
What's what's the major benefit of something that is so thin compared to something
That's a little bit thicker like fractionally thicker but doesn't have the compromises like an extremely high price tag and a trackpad
That does not click like that's... this feels weird like really really weird, okay
Overall thoughts on this device. I love the fact that acer is trying something like this thin is cool and maybe in the future
We'll have the tech to kind of make everything work with clickable
Trackpads and better performance and all that stuff in ultra thin devices like this
But right now I really feel like that pursuit of thinness
needs to chill out for a second because now we're getting to the point of
Compromised product and I just don't recommend this thing for most people. Okay. Hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs
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