Acer Swift Spin 14 AI is attractive, powerful with a great battery... and a bit pricey

Acer Swift Spin 14 AI review: Two Minute Review The Acer Swift Spin 14 AI is an easy recommendation outside of its price tag.

It’s light, slim, and pretty attractive in its one colorway.

It also comes with a touchscreen and an incredibly smooth 360-degree hinge that makes putting it in tent or tablet mode very easy outside of swinging around a 14-inch piece of hardware.

If you’re looking for one of the best laptops with 2-in-1 capabilities, I think this laptop fits right in.

It’s surprisingly powerful for a laptop that relies on integrated graphics (rather than a discrete GPU) – I was able to do some semi-serious gaming on it, though with some compromises – and it comes with a battery life that competes with the best.

Besides the lacklustre sound quality, which I expect on even the best Ultrabooks since they’re so thin, the main issue I have with the laptop is the price tag.

Considering everything I’ve mentioned above, as well as the included AI apps, I don’t think the laptop is overpriced.

But at about a grand and a half, it’s not quite the value proposition that I expect from Acer, either.

Of course, knowing the company, that price will probably come down before long.

The Acer Swift Spin 14 AI has no issues streaming whatever content you want. (Image credit: Future / James Holland) Acer Swift Spin 14 AI review: Price & Availability How much does it cost? $1,499.99 / £1,399 (about AU$2,150) When is it available? Available now Where can you get it? Available in the US and UK The Acer Swift Spin 14 AI is available for $1,499.99 / £1,399 (about AU$2,150) in the United States and the United Kingdom.

It doesn’t seem to be available in Australia at the time of writing, but Acer does have a landing page for the model, so that might change in the very near future.

If you’re wondering about what kind of upgrades you can make or configurations you can choose from, you’re in for a rude awakening.

There’s just one version of this laptop on the market, and it comes with the Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU (with 80 tops), integrated Adreno graphics, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 might be a bit heavier and have issues with its stylus storage, but it comes with a nicer OLED screen for the same price (it’s actually available at a lower price through some retailers at the time of writing).