Acer Swift 3
MPNs: NX.GQNSA.002, NX.GXZSA.002, NX.HJFSA.003 and NX.HJGSA.00211 reviews
Not sure why they went with this strange display but its instant headache material so i had to go back to my travelmate Show details
Died in less than 2 years – The Acer (Aspire) laptop I had 15 years ago was a great machine that lasted for years and I was quite happy with it. So the brand had a great reputation in my mind and bought an Acer Swift 3 for my daughter to use in high school. It is lightweight, easy to carry, nice sized display for a student and the battery life is great. However the mouse… Read more
touch pad started to malfunction after 7-8 months of use which was then repaired under warranty. And again, 3 weeks ago it started to not boot up. The light on the side of the laptop is on but there is no life in the device, no screen, no keyboard, no sound at all. A laptop should not break down in 2 years of usage. Wasted hundreds of dollars on it. Not recommended. Edit: Officeworks (where i collected it) was not only in denial of their responsibility agains the consumer under ACL, but also their staff was quite rude when I took it for them to check. I was asking for a refund or a free repair, their worker in the Vic park store become angry and said my presence there was illegal and all other sorts of nonsense. I did not push and left the store as it was not going anywhere positive.
Audio Horrible Acer Swift 3 – I always trusted the Acer brand and stuck to it, but found Acer Swift 3 to be extremely disappointing, I am so sorry I bought this laptop, the audio is so low, it's a strain to hear it, (yet the settings say the sound is 100%) I made the mistake of using my favourite laptop till it gave up, thus the warranty had run out. I had no reason to think that the audio would be the problem it is. Show details
ACER Australia not honouring warranty re fault on screen – Would give it no stars at all. Last year I purchased an ACER Swift but when a black mark appeared on the screen shortly after purchase, and was returned to the store Good Guys ( from whom we have opurchased many household items ) the fault inside a couple of months purchase the ACER Australia company stated it would cost the equivalent of a new… Read more
computer to replacew the screen wand would not honour wartranty on their product and blamed it on mistreatment. Having owned a laptop for many years Toshiba, and HP the last for ten years for work and home use I considered this an insult but a breah of consumer law! Fortunately after much debate Good Guys kindly REFUNDED the cost. Question is how a company can sell a faulyt product but not honour warranty and what ACCC and other organisations are doing about it.
Product quality not at all great – I would not recommend Acer laptop as the Product quality is not that great and the same applies to their customer service. I had purchased the laptop over a year ago and just after the warranty gets over, the screw on one end of the laptop become loose and the display turns black. Their customer service response is warranty is expired and contact… Read more
your local technician to fix it. This is not at all a hardy product and my recommendation would be to go with the other brands even if they are a bit expensive but will last longer and will not have these product quality issues and of course better customer service.
The company does not honour the Australian Consumer Law – I bought an ACER SF3141 ( a version of the ACER Swift 3) in December 2019 for my child to use at school. The product failed within *10 months* due to an inability to charge. ACER Australia declined to provide any repair or refund claiming the product had been dropped. It had not been. There was a scratch on a corner diagonally opposite the… Read more
charging point. ACER then 'returned' a completely different unit that had been dropped, indeed with some Herculean force, to me as evidence. In the meantime, my child spent a month at school without a device.
ACER flat out lied to me. I have a series of photos at every stage. NSW Fair Trading advised me to take action in a civil court, but who has that much time available just to break even on a simple consumer electronics purchase? For a $750 device? The whole reason to buy a prominent brand name is that you don't have to suffer this rubbish.
That's my experience: I bought an ACER product because I thought I could trust the ACER brand and would not need to worry about being misled and deceived by ACER and now I will never buy an ACER product again.
We have since bought Apple devices for my children and, while they are much more expensive, my experience has been that Apple stands behind its products.
One reflection is that we had a right of refund or replacement from the retailer that we did not attempt to use. (I have nothing bad to say about the retailer in this case, they retailed well, 5 thumbs up for Domayne.) Under the Australian Consumer Law the consumer gets to CHOOSE whether to seek redress from the retailer or the manufacturer for products that fail. Do you trust the retailer's brand or the manufacturer's brand more? Who is more likely to treat you right? My guess is that we chose the wrong option by going to the manufacturer in this instance.
Great speed and Easy to Use – Purchased this as my old desktop was getting frustratingly slow. Wow, what a difference - it’s lightning quick, well constructed, light and easy to use. I’m a 70 year old and had no trouble setting it up and operating it. My only small criticism is that in daylight the keys are a little difficult to read - no problem in full light as the… Read more
backlighting on the keyboard works well. My main use is email, internet searches, file management, social media, Word, basic photo editing, creating holiday slideshows and the odd visual presentation. It handles these tasks with ease. A really good product and highly recommended.
Great value, pleasure to use – Thrilled with this machine! 7 months in now and still amazed with what I got for $698 - things that you wouldn't have got for twice the price only a few short years ago: -512GB SSD -It's made mostly of metal instead of plastic -Huge Precision Touchpad -Full HD IPS display - maybe not MacBook levels of colourful/vibrant but plenty good enough … Read more
-Long battery life - I'd say about 7-9 hours -Fingerprint reader, works at least as well as Touch ID on older iPhones -Backlit keyboard
One really pleasant surprise was that it can output 4K/60Hz to my UHD monitor, meaning that the HDMI port must be a 2.0 port- a lot of other models are stuck on HDMI 1.4.
Super impressed with performance especially. This Swift 3 runs a dual-core AMD Zen chip (with the retro Athlon branding) and even though it's an older-gen processor, the laptop just won't lag no matter what I do with it. Everything opens/happens pretty much instantly. The fan rarely ever kicks in and it's not loud when it does. The only time I can get it to stutter a bit is with a video running on the monitor and doing something else on the laptop screen. At that point it's pushing over 10 million pixels 60 times a second, so I feel like a few dropped frames can be excused especially for under $700.
Love that it has a full-size SD card slot, makes it so easy to transfer photos straight from my DSLR or dashcam.
Pleased that it meets all the requirements for Windows 11 and looking forward to upgrading.
What a fabulous little laptop with some great performance – I got the AMD Ryzen 5 version, and it's just perfect for what I wanted. Mainly Development work with a workflow based around Gestures. The Keyboard feels nice and poppy without to much throw and the touch pad feel good with a size big enough for gestures to be workable. The screen has good resolution, with a good size to keep it light enough to… Read more
carry around easily. The body feels solid and there is little flex anywhere really; Even the screen is held firmly with little movement.
As soon as I got it I removed Windows 10, and put Ubuntu 20.04 on it which runs perfectly with UEFI Secure Boot. Even using LUKS disk encryption the system feels very snappy. You can get away with running light games on it like Steam Indies, etc, with the Vega 8. It only has 8gb of memory, and video card shares some of that so you are left with just under 6, but it's not a high end laptop. That said I am pretty sure you can get the memory bump up.
Battery life is long enough to get you through a day of work. All in all I am extremely happy with my new little laptop and would highly recommend it to anyone wanting a mid range Laptop, combining quality with performance.
Love it! – I previously bought a hp laptop from JW & was very slow & less than a week it started crashing so I returned it. I went to bing lee & the salesman recommended this product. I purchased it & i love it already. Its so fast, turns on & off quickly, the keyboard & touch pad feels nice, the hd screen is so clear, the keyboard lights up, the laptop is silver & looks beautiful. I highly recommend this! Show details
Perfect product at great price – Everything is good about the laptop - bought for engineering work from home and personal use. $999 from Bing Lee was excellent price. Spec: 14 inch screen, 256 SSD Core I7, high definition, 10 hour battery life, NVIDIA GEForce (whatever that is). Use half of that storage and don't use the cloud. Its super-quick to start up and shutdown, and… Read more
programs are much quicker with no hesitations. I use a $5 wired mouse from BigW, as my old mouse thought it was a USB device. Microsoft software products take a bit of getting used to and setting up. Gorilla glass screen is better than the mushy ones. Its got plenty of features I don't use. Right size and lightweight is much better for portability than my clunky old Dell 15". Only negative was that I lost some long loved 16/32bit software in changing up to this 64 bit laptop, but that's a generic problem.
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