Acer Swift Blade 14 weighs just 1.76 lbs, undercutting MacBook Air by nearly a pound

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Acer has announced the Swift Blade 14, a thin-and-light laptop designed to compete with Apple's MacBook Air on portability. The machine weighs just 1.76 pounds (799g) and measures as little as 0.51 inches thick, making it nearly a pound lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Air. Acer achieves this low weight by using carbon fiber in the laptop's top lid and bottom plate. The Swift Blade 14 will be powered by a range of Intel Wildcat Lake processors. Despite sharing part of its name, the Acer Swift Blade 14 is unrelated to Razer's Blade 14 lineup.

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