GAMES Dune: Awakening gets 35 hours of free ‘Blood and Ice’ expansion on December 1 GAMES Star Wars Jedi 3 enters advanced development stage, official announcement expected soon CONSOLES Xbox US market share shrinks as Asha Sharma’s strategic initiatives fail to reverse sales decline AYANEO Ayaneo KONKR Pocket Advance gets translucent ‘Ice Pink’ shell for around $129 PHONES OnePlus pauses compact phone updates, leaving small-screen fans waiting indefinitely GAMES The Lord of the Rings Online expansion The Wolves of Mordor launches with new region and pricing AYANEO Ayaneo releases AYASpace 2 Pocket Museum launcher with cross-device save syncing and rewind CONSOLES Fake PS5 emulators on GitHub steal passwords and disable Microsoft Defender NINTENDO Eden-NX2 Emulator Brings Early Nintendo Switch 2 Support to PC PC HARDWARE Sam Altman claims PCs waste 95% of DRAM supply, advocates for cloud-only AI AMD Acer Swift Air 14 launches in Japan with Ryzen AI 7 345 for around $1,348 GAMES Anthem petition gathers nearly 5,000 signatures in three days as fans demand server relaunch GAMES Hitman 4 is in development, voice actor David Bateson confirms GAMES Project Zomboid update 42.22 adds crowbar prying and ladder climbing, replaces Unstable branch

Acer Swift Air 14 launches in Japan with Ryzen AI 7 345 for around $1,348

Lena Fischer 4 comments 2 min read

Acer launches the Swift Air 14 in Japan with Ryzen AI 5 330 and Ryzen AI 7 345 options. Prices start at around $1,240 for the 14- inch OLED laptop.

Acer Swift Air 14 launches in Japan with Ryzen AI 7 345 for around $1,348
PC HARDWARE

Acer has launched new variants of the Swift Air 14 laptop in Japan, offering two different Ryzen AI processors to choose from. With this launch, Acer is offering more options for users looking for AMD processors in this 14-inch laptop form-factor. This launch offers different levels of performance in this lightweight form-factor. This allows the user to choose the performance level they are looking for.

Acer launches AMD-powered Swift Air 14 laptops in Japan with Ryzen AI processors

The Swift Air 14 laptop comes with a 14-inch OLED display with 1200p resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio. The laptop offers 300 nits of brightness. It is 14.9 mm thin.

Specifications

  • Processor: AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 or Ryzen AI 7 345
  • Display: 14-inch 1200p OLED, 300 nits
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Storage: 512 GB M.2 2280 SSD
  • Weight: 960 g

The laptop chassis weighs around 960 g. The laptop is highly portable for everyday use. Acer has used 16 GB of RAM. It has a 512 GB M.2 2280 SSD for storage.

The new launch offers two different variants, Ryzen AI 5 330 and Ryzen AI 7 345. The Ryzen AI 7 345 is much more powerful. It is around 28% faster in CPU benchmarks compared to the Ryzen AI 5 330.

In GPU equivalent, it is more than 80% faster as per Notebookcheck. Both variants have a 50 Wh battery with 65 W charging. It has full-sized HDMI and USB type-A ports. This makes it easier to connect the peripherals.

The Ryzen AI 5 330 variant starts at JPY 195,800 (~$1,240). The more powerful variant, Ryzen AI 7 345 variant is priced at JPY 212,800 (~$1,348). These are confirmed by Acer.

They are available only in Japan. There is no information if these AMD variants will be available internationally. Earlier, we have covered Acer Aspire Lite 14 with Snapdragon for sub-$750 segment. This is for the higher-end AMD variants with Swift Air.

Source: NotebookCheck

AMD

Related stories

Discussion

4 comments

  1. Vosloo

    Japan pricing is steep. The Ryzen AI 7 model costs over thirteen hundred dollars. That feels like a lot for a 1200p screen.

  2. Tamsin

    Does the 50 Wh battery hold up on a long train ride? The OLED panel might drain it fast.

    1. Sundeep

      I hope so. The 16 GB RAM is locked in which limits multitasking. I would worry about the battery life more than the storage space.

  3. Okonkwo

    Notebookcheck claims 80 percent GPU gain. Those benchmarks are often misleading for integrated graphics in real world tasks.

Leave a comment