【Tianji Network Notebook Channel】Acer launched a main thin and light notebook Aspire S 13 (model S5-371) in May last year, with an all-metal body design, a 13.3-inch ultra-thin body weight of only 1.42kg, equipped with Intel's sixth-generation Core processor, once launched, it has won the love of many consumers with its extremely high appearance and balanced configuration.
At the beginning of 2017 Intel launched the seventh generation of Core processors, and Acer has also integrated its ultra-thin series of laptops into the new Hummingbird Swift family, this site also introduced the two new products of Swift3 and Swift7 for readers in the early stage, today to introduce another new product Swift5, this product can also be seen as an upgraded version of Aspire S 13, the main improvement is not only Intel launched the seventh generation Core processor, At the same time, in terms of screen and detail design, it is more perfect than hummingbird S5, and then we will introduce them one by one.
In terms of appearance, the new Acer Hummingbird Swift 5 is consistent with the previous S5-371, both using the same mold, even this year, this set of thin and elegant molds can still be refreshing, it is simply a clear stream in the light and thin laptop.
A side using metal material plus special coating, touch no metallic cold feeling, vertical texture makes the notebook look more temperamental, in the color and the previous generation of S5 is also available in black and white, personally feel that the black version is more attractive, white for straight men a bit Hold can not hold.
In terms of body size, hummingbird Swift 5 is 14.58 mm x 327 mm 228 mm (height x width x depth), which is roughly the size of a magazine, the thickness is slightly more than half of a yuan coin (vertical coin), the weight is 1.3kg, and the size of the power adapter in the accessories is further reduced, and there is no pressure to carry around.
Unlike the Hummingbird S5's 13.3-inch screen, Acer crammed a 14-inch 1080P IPS screen into the Swift 5, which greatly reduced the size of the screen bezel and gave people a stronger visual impact, but due to the size of the fuselage, the "chin" of the lower half of the screen is still slightly wider in comparison.
This screen has a very excellent performance, the current common phenomenon in the notebook industry is that the thin and light ultrabook with a wide color gamut good screen, the game book with a low-cost TN screen, so there is no need to go to the professional color Spider5, to the author's 24K titanium alloy eyes to see that this screen belongs to a good screen.
The keyboard and touchpad are also consistent with the previous generation, and the uneven backlight of the previous generation S5 keyboard has been greatly improved, and the visual effect of typing at night is better. The touchpad adds a fingerprint module.
In terms of interfaces, the Hummingbird Swift 5 has 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 3.1 Type C, 1 HDMI, headset connector and SD card reader slot.
In terms of configuration, the specific model of Swift 5, SF514-51, has two numbers: the high-end NX.GLDCN.003 and the low-end NX.GLDCN.002. This review is a high-end version, specifically configured as ntel Core i7-7500U processor 2.70 GHz, 35.6 cm 14" IPS Full HD screen, 8 GB LPDDR3 memory and 256 GB SSD, the configuration is more mainstream, can meet the use of most users.
Performance testing:
The 1M bit takes 10.86 seconds
CPU——Fritz Chess：
The 6497 thousand steps per second is more than 2 times higher than the previous generation i5 6200U.
CPU&GPU——CniebenchR15
The processor single-core score 102, multi-core score 299, due to the increase in frequency, the running score compared to the previous generation 6 series i7-6500U has about 15% improvement. HD620 nuclear display performance has been greatly improved, the theoretical performance has increased by 30%-40%, I believe that low and medium quality running some mainstream games is completely no problem, after all, the previous generation of Hummingbird S5 can already run the World of Warcraft to 80 frames / second in low quality.
Memory: AIDA64 Cach & Memory BenchMark
Although it is not DDR4 memory, but the performance is not weak, read and write are more than 23GB/s, memory for the on-board structure, support dual channels, late can not be upgraded, when buying, please buy the 8GB version directly to avoid insufficient later.
SSD：TxBench
Sequential read and write are 559, 533MB/s, 4K reading and writing scores are also in line with the mainstream SATA3 specification SSD performance, this Jianxing CV3 is also widely used by many notebook manufacturers, in addition to the high-end i7 processor, the performance of this SSD is higher than the i5 processor.
Overall – PCMark8 Home
Score 3743 points, PCMark8 for the 6th generation and 7th generation platform running score difference is not much, in fact, there is about 10% of the improvement, personal feeling or through the refinement of each component running score can more objectively reflect the performance of this PC.
Whole - Master Lu
Overall 98078 points, the overall performance is relatively balanced, HD620 set display also has a good performance.
Heat dissipation: Lu Master + AIDA64 stability test + Prime95 copy machine
When fully loaded, the CPU is only 65 degrees, and the fuselage is not obviously hot, the wrist rest and keyboard are not obviously hot, and the heat dissipation of the whole machine is very excellent.
Evaluation summary: At present, the Acer Hummingbird family has Swift3, Swift5, Swift7 three series, Swift5 positioning is also in the middle as its digital size, I personally think that in the 3 series, if it is not because of the limited budget to choose Swift3, then between swift5 and Swift7, Swift5 undoubtedly has a more balanced performance, whether it is value, workmanship, performance, expansion, battery life, Swift5 represents the mainstream level of today's thin and light laptops, and its performance will satisfy you in all aspects.