Forget the MacBook Air — This New Rival Packs a Bigger OLED Display and Is Even Lighter

Forget the MacBook Air — this new rival packs a bigger OLED display and is even lighter

Acer reveals its new Swift Air 16 Copilot+ laptop, taking aim at the MacBook Air with a 16-inch OLED display and a lighter design. Here's what you need to know.

The Swift 16 Air is Acer's new MacBook challenger

Acer has announced the Swift Air 16 at IFA 2025 in Berlin. It's a new MacBook competitor that weighs as little as 2.18 pounds.

Acer’s 16-inch Air weighs even less than a 13-inch MacBook Air

Acer’s new Swift Air 16 is one of the lightest 16-inch laptops around, weighing even less than a MacBook Air or LG Gram. But its battery is smaller, too.

Acer Unveils Unbelievably Thin 'Swift 16 Air' at IFA 2025

Acer had a lot to share at this year’s IFA in Berlin. The company just pulled the curtain back on its lightest-ever 16-inch laptop, the Swift 16 Air, along with a new Copilot+ PC, the TravelMate X4 AI. Both laptops aim to balance performance with portability, but they do so in different ways. Acer Swift […]

I think Acer's featherweight Swift Air 16 could be the best power ultraportable yet

16in laptops don’t get much slimmer or lighter than Acer’s newly-revealed Swift Air 16. The size zero ultraportable has been carved out of magnesium-aluminium alloy so it can tip the scales at less than a kilogram, yet has still found room inside for one of AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series CPUs – meaning it won’t be short on performance. The Copilot+ PC is launching in Europe in November from £899/€999 (no word on a US release yet), seriously undercutt…