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Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop

Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop
The Verge Wednesday 02 September 2026, 09:30 UTC By Antonio G. Di Benedetto 1 min read
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Acer calls the Swift Blade 14’s colors marshmallow blue and marshamallow white. | Image: Acer Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air's thinness and lightness - and in the process, it cops another laptop's name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring as little as 0.51 inches / 12.95mm thin.

Acer calls the Swift Blade 14’s colors marshmallow blue and marshamallow white. Now I want sweets. | Image: Acer

Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air's thinness and lightness - and in the process, it cops another laptop's name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring as little as 0.51 inches / 12.95mm thin. That's around 1.7mm thicker than Apple's svelte 13-inch MacBook Air, but Acer's Blade is nearly a pound lighter. Its featherweight stature is partly due to Acer using carbon fiber in the laptop's top lid and bottom plate.

Inside the Swift Blade will be a range of Intel Wildcat Lake processors, from the lowly five-core Co …

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