 While usually focusing on portability first, Acer has switched its strategy for the Swift 5 for this year, deciding to maximize performance with the Alder Lake P series. This earns the laptop a lot of points in our eyes, as were suckers for performance inside small notebooks. However, the Swift 5 has a lot more to show, so stick with us to find out what that is. It comes with a fully aluminum chassis, which is very durable and looks amazing. It's got sharp edges and rounded corners while using a mist green color with some gold touches, which make the laptop appear very luxurious. Even though it comes with a 14-inch display, the laptop remains very light, with a weight of only 1.2 kilograms and a profile of 14.95 millimeters. The lid of the Swift 5 is easy to open with one hand, while also lifting up the backside of the base. Once open we can see the keyboard and touchpad. There's a fingerprint reader embedded in the power button, which is commonplace among more premium devices. The board also has green keys with gold lettering. Typing on it is great, as the key travel is as long as humanly possible on this thin chassis, while the feedback is clicky. The touchpad uses an ocean glass material, which is essentially recycled ocean plastic. Still, it's quite smooth, but the size of the pad is smaller than we would prefer. The laptop also brings a good selection of ports. On the left side, there are two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and one 5 gigabit full-sized USB port. On the other side, we have one more full-sized USB port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. On the front, we see the display, which is covered in glass. Acer makes it simple, by offering two panels with a 1610 aspect ratio in either FHD Plus or QHD Plus resolution. We went all out and picked the latter and it was a very good choice. The panel reaches 536 nits of brightness and has a high contrast ratio, ensuring deep black colors. It also shows 100% sRGB coverage, making it ready for creator work. If you want to take it a step further, our design and gaming profile lowers the delta E value down to 1.4, which is right where you want it to be. You can purchase our profile in the description below. The Swift 5 comes with a 56Wh battery pack which lasts for 11 hours and 40 minutes of web browsing, or 10 hours and 10 minutes of video playback when paired with the Core i7-1260P. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome! This is the most powerful CPU that you can get on the laptop, and it performs really well, matching or outclassing a lot of its competitors in 3D rendering. It's also blazing quick in Photoshop, so you can definitely take advantage of the amazing screen. Acer has picked a very good cooling solution for the Swift 5, giving it two heat pipes and two fans. This makes it the best performing Core i7-1260P laptop that we've tested so far, offering very fast speeds and short loads, while keeping cool under long runs. In terms of comfort, the laptop does well for the performance that it offers, having a hotspot of 41.1 degrees Celsius, while there isn't a lot of noise coming from the two fans. Unfortunately, with a device as small as this, the upgradeability is limited, since you've only got soldered LPDDR5 memory, with configurations of up to 16GB. On the bright side, there's 1M.2 slot for generation for SSDs. We have a separate teardown video, in which we show how to access the inside of the Swift 5 for maintenance and upgrades. We'll have it linked in the description. The Acer Swift 5 gets a revamp for 2022, which we feel is for the better. Yes, you do get an extra 200 grams to carry around, but the performance benefits and the improved design do make it worth it. For more info about the Swift 5, you can go to our website and read our written review, which has extra testing and can get you 100% up to speed with the Acer Swift 5.