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hey how's it going Dave 2d here this laptop here holds the current title of the world's thinnest laptop and that is a title that gets transferred between different companies different product lines because some company will make a really thin laptop it's the world's thinnest and then a few months later some company will shave off a millimeter here millimeter there and just it bounces around between the different brands as to who has the world's thinnest at that time right now the Acer Swift 7 has the thinnest title and it's a 9 millimeter thick laptop actually a little bit less than that if you put it into perspective there are smartphones that are thicker than this like it's a very thin device the build quality is quite good it's obviously a form factor that is going to inherently be more difficult to keep structural integrity because it's so thin but they've done a really good job with it it's milled aluminum and it's made well now the target demographic for a product like this isn't huge right not everyone's gonna be buying something super thin just for the sake of buying something thin you got to really need or really want something that looks like this and I mean there's some compromises we'll get to those in a little bit but there's a lot of good stuff going on here as well so the screen is a 14 inch 1080p touch panel it's bright with vibrant colors great for media consumption it's bigger so instead of the 13.3 inch screen that we often see in most ultrabooks it is a touch bigger but visually it's not a huge difference the keyboard is also quite good I expected this keyboard to be not great because it's such a thin device traditionally really thin laptops have kind of mediocre keyboards this one's pretty good my one complaint is the layout there's just a few keys that feel out of place for example the Delete and backspace key they're really close together and I was making a lot of mistakes when I first started using this keyboard same with the page up and page down keys they're just right by the arrow keys it's just a real tight cluster of stuff that you can hit by accident and it's a very good and comfortable keyboard but that layout takes a while to get used to there's also a fingerprint sensor on the side I usually like fingerprint sensors on Windows devices I can't even think of one that I haven't liked this one for whatever reason I'm just getting a lot of missed reads and errors like I wasn't able to log in consistently with my finger probably one out of every two or three tries at best so it could be a software thing I hope it's not a hardware thing but this particular sensor on this review unit wasn't great the components on the inside are decent there's nothing in here that's particularly high-powered it's geared more towards energy efficiency and just low energy consumption there's also a SIM card in here for constant 4G LTE access it even has an e SIM option the batter in here is also good I'm getting around eight hours of use with the screen at 250 nits and it's charged via us PC so the performance on this device is okay it's actually powered by cable a qui processor so that's the seventh gen stuff it's fanless and it'll handle any kind of light computer tasks like browsing email media consumption stuff like that but don't expect any kind of heavy lifting now there are some compromises when it comes to making thin and light devices like this particularly something as thin as this so stuff like ports there's only two USB ports they don't support Thunderbolt 3 and there's no use ba ports in terms of the speakers they're located on the bottom they don't sound particularly great they don't get particularly loud they're I mean they're ultra book speakers when you compare them someone like the MacBook with 12-inch MacBook similar in size well similar ish they're both really thin but the 12-inch MacBook speakers just blow these out of the water then you have stuff like the webcam which is located at the bottom of the screen on the bezel it's something that we see in a lot of thin and light devices but that's just one of the minor compromises you have to make when it comes to stuff like this there are some bigger ones though some bigger compromises them in my opinion are almost deal-breakers for this particular device the big one for me is the trackpad this is a trackpad that does not have any moving parts so the bun mechanic or rather the click mechanic is not even a click it's a tap so I've been using this device for a little bit over a week and I've been using the trackpad frequently I can't get used to it it's something that I feel like if you're used to any kind of tactile response with your trackpad you will find it very difficult to use this it's not so much the tactility like that's annoying that it's not there but it's the imprecision so if you want to do drag and drop it's very difficult to do it on this track pattern I often find that I'm getting miss clicks or just unregistered clicks because of the mechanism and I think this is a result or this reason why this trackpad is like this is because this laptop is so thin I feel like they couldn't put that mechanism of a click or of a cantilever or any kind of like depression device into this super thin form factor and like to me that's not worth it like if you're gonna do this if you're gonna build a device like this that cost this kind of money this this is one of the pillars of use right this is a very very important part of any kind of laptop experience and if this is no good the trackpad the whole experience feels a little bit shaded and that leads me to my second thing because this thing is so thin the price premium this product is huge this starts at $1700 that is a lot of money and when you look at the mark and you kind of see what else is out there in this kind of form factor there are other devices out there like the razor blade stuff the XPS 13 the LG Graham they're very similar in overall experience to something like this not as thin but it's still very very portable so you're paying a pretty big premium on this just because of the ultra thin form factor and it's cool that acer or other companies out there are kind of just in that pursuit of thinness it's cool but when you step back for a second and kind of look at the overall like reason is this really that useful like is there someone out there that really needs something so thin that they can you know what what's what's the major benefit of something that is so thin compared to something that's a little bit thicker like fractionally thicker but doesn't have the compromises like an extremely high price tag and a trackpad that does not click like Batson this feels weird like really really weird okay overall thoughts on this device I love the fact that acer is trying something like this thin is cool and maybe in the future we'll have the tech to kind of make everything work with clickable trackpads and better performance and all that stuff in ultra thin devices like this but right now I really feel like that pursuit of thinness needs to chill out for a second because now we're getting to the point of compromise product and I just don't recommend this thing for most people okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time