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Acer Swift X 14" OLED Creator Notebook 16GB RAM 512GB SSD RTX3050 6GB $997 Delivered to Metro @ Officeworks

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[edit] No longer in stock online. Only available in select stores:
[edit 2] Possibly completely out of stock.
Osborne Park Officeworks
Malaga Officeworks
Midland Officeworks
Keswick Officeworks
Trinity Gardens Officeworks
Parafield Officeworks
Warrnambool Officeworks
Geelong Officeworks
Southport Officeworks

Update (22/11):

Rockhampton QLD
Stuart Park NT
Hervey Bay QLD
Launceston TAS

Maybe some others I've missed.

Apple fanboys, take note. This is what a REAL laptop deal looks like.

  • 14" 2.8K OLED display with a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels.
  • Intel Core i5 13500H Processor 2.4GHz, Turbo Boost up to 5GHz.
  • 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM.
  • 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD storage capacity.
  • NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050, 6G-GDDR6 (2C51216*3) 16Gbps
  • Ports include 2 x USB Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2, and HDMI 2.1.
  • Killer Wireless Wi-Fi 6E 1675i & Bluetooth 5.2
  • Backlit Keyboard.
  • 120 Hz refresh rate.
  • 12 month warranty.
  • 15 hour battery life.
  • Windows 11 Home operating system.
  • Fingerprint unlock.
  • Dark grey design.

Battery life allegedly isn't the best, but can be mitigated with certain tweaks. It's a Samsung OLED Panel too, so it will look better than the HP ones.

Unprecedented for an OLED Laptop with these specs to cost less than $1k. This is the laptop deal of the year IMO.

Thanks to the user joffaa for finding it: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14601403/redir

[edit] Officeworks got the title of the product wrong, the GPU actually has 6GB of vram, not 4GB.

This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2023

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      • Yeah, I was suprised they offered me the $100 discount up front.
        Was so stoked, especially after getting my order from a closer store refunded, due to lack of stock.

  • +1

    Just received delivery. Less than 36 hrs from order
    .

  • to reinstall OS. follow this…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtkhZP8xJI

    • Why would you want to re-install windows?

      • +1

        https://www.shouldiremoveit.com/acer-oem-bloatware.aspx

        Acer Bloatware
        Manufacturer bloatware and trialware refer to Acers' (like most PC manufacturers) habit of loading crippled versions of commercial software and OEM proprietary utilities on a new computer.
        Acer laptops typically come bundled with a number of both installed utilities as well as try before you buy commercial software. Out of the box, this includes programs for playing media such as the Nero and CyberLink line of trialware, backup utilties such as MyWinLocker Suite and the typical OEM utilities for managing Acer updates and registration

  • They offered me $20 discount on it since it was a display model.
    I cancelled the order.
    The computer is 6 months old (has been on display since June), and a 2% discount is laughable.
    I actually asked for an extended warranty instead of the discount, but they wouldn't do that either.
    So if anyone is interested, the display model is at Trinity Gardens, SA

  • Oooft. I bought a zenbook 14x for $1600 a couple of months back and I kinda regret it now seeing this deal…

  • Shipment has been delivered 08:08 PM
    Signature Unavailable
    But I can not find it.
    WTF
    Really so bad.

    • Looks like you got TOLL'd.

      • Team Global Express….
        TOLL…

  • Mine arrived yesterday without any issues. Brand new, not used or a display model.

    • The display is amazing, as expected. OLED panels are simply a class above LCD.
    • The battery does drain faster than other laptops. This is no doubt the result of having an RTX 3050 in a slim laptop without a huge gaming-tier battery. Battery life can be increased with power-saving mitigations and using dark themes everywhere.
    • The fan is indeed constant. By default it was noticeable. Turning on silent mode definitely makes it more quiet, but you can still hear it. After updating all the drivers, updating DPTF, updating the BIOS, undervolting the dGPU and tweaking every setting for minimum power usage, the fan still runs, but it's more than quiet enough. If you need a silent laptop, you really shouldn't be buying one with a dedicated GPU anyway.
    • The build quality is good. The keyboard feels nice for a laptop, the touchpad is very big, tactile and responsive. Not the biggest fan of the textured plastic bezels bordering the glossy OLED screen, but it's no big deal.
    • Haven't tried PC games yet, but did try Gamecube emulation through Dolphin. Works beautifully, it's a better experience than my gaming PC thanks to the OLED panel and it's sick response times.

    Overall, so far so good. This is exactly the kind of laptop that works well in a studio, either alone or alongside a workstation PC. I wouldn't recommend it for on-the-go usage because of the battery life.

    I might sell mine or give it to a sibling because I simply don't need a laptop. My desk was already cramped enough before placing it next to my keyboard. I only bought this laptop because the value was just too good to ignore.

    • +2

      So you bought it not because you need it but just fomo?

  • Happy to take it off someone who changes their mind…

    • I changed my mind. I have it open boxed and watched a few youtube videos. Do you want it? Blackburn Victoria.

      • Happy to buy unopened only

  • I’d be interested in how others are finding the fan and whether it’s acceptable in silent mode? Is the fan constant or spins up and down depending on load placed on the CPU and graphics, and therefore bearable at light use?

    Toying with whether this is a suitable machine for a high school student.

  • +1

    This laptop is a very premium toy. I'll share my experience from moving to this laptop from 14inch MacBook Pro M2 Pro 2023:

    Pros:

    1. Very good display! I personally own two OLED display (Corsair Xenon FLEX, Aorus FO480U), this I would say is easily the best. It's even better against my Mac's 2000+ local dimming zone mini led display.
    2. Surprisingly good trackpad (Coming from the golden standard Apple trackpad).
    3. Good keyboard.

    Cons:

    1. Very loud fan! The laptop is quite warm to the touch even watching YouTube video. The fan air intake part is very flimsy despite made in metal and can hit the fan blade when carrying and put a little pressure (like griping it).
    2. Using the default setting the Windows estimated battery life is 1 hour and 50 minutes (horrible)! I then downloaded intel extreme tunning utility and limit the boost power to 15W, this only improved the battery to 2 hours and 50 minutes. I don't know how the advertised 15.5 hours is achievable. I disabled the RTX 3050 entirely in device manager, but the battery life still didn't improve.

    Overall, this laptop feels incomplete. I would feel uncomfortable giving this laptop to my mum (my intended purchase as Christmas gift), as someone without the tech expertise wouldn't appreciate much of the benefit of this laptop (like my mum couldn't see the difference between OLED and IPS…), and in no way she will game with RTX3050. She will feel this as a cheap loud overheating laptop with short battery life.

    Something like the baseline M1 Macbook Air would much better suit her usage.

    • Thanks for feedback. That’s a little worrying. Haven’t opened ours yet. Not sure if I will unbox or just return it yet.

      • I returned it quoting "false advertisement" due to the claim "5GHz" in their product page (i5 13500H is only up to 4.7GHz). Now they have taken their product page down, you still can see the google's cache by searching "Acer Swift X 14" OLED Creator Notebook 16GB RAM 512GB SSD RTX3050 4GB". Acer Swift X 14" OLED Creator Notebook 16/512GB …

        Officeworks
        https://www.officeworks.com.au › shop › officeworks
        Acer Swift X 14" OLED Creator Notebook 16GB RAM 512GB SSD RTX3050 4GB from www.officeworks.com.au
        14" 2.8K OLED display with a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels. Intel Core i5 13500H Processor 2.4GHz, Turbo Boost up to 5GHz. 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM. 512 GB PCIe NVMe …

        So feel free to unbox it and try for yourself. For me this laptop is unusable to my standard (might be very high). I can see it can be useful in certain situations like you want to game or a creator (editing videos and photoshop) when travelling, and don't care about battery life since you can plug it in in hotel (warning it's going to get hot). I wouldn't recommend for anything else.

        • this is indeed true..I basically use this as a desktop mode with a tb4 dock from work…

        • If the battery life is as poor as you describe that is a deal-breaker for a student’s laptop. Needs to be able to get through a standard school day without charging.

          Anyone else have feedback on battery performance and had similar experience - around two hours?

          • @fookos: The CPU is 45W TDP, and GPU is 50W. 95W cooled by a single fan in a thin and light form factor… what can you expect.

            • @Edyolo: The CPU has a 80W PL2. It's even worse than that.

        • Oh my, just an hour of battery life is outrageous, it dissuades me from keeping it

          • +1

            @Waltuh: Even from professional reviews quoting bad battery life: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2026099/acer-swift-x-14-revi…

            But they are able to get 300 ish minute. I don’t know. I was watching New Jeans Super Shy for 3 times in 4K, and the battery dropped 10% for your reference.

            • @Edyolo: The machine in that review is an i7 and 4050 graphics so a little beefier on specs. Not the same beast here.

              • @fookos: oh well。i7 = better binned。 RTX4050 = 5nm。 yeah it’s like comparing Apple to oranges.

                But can be a good reference point.

      • Hi mate, If u want to return it, can i buy it from u instead?

    • I disabled the RTX 3050 entirely in device manager

      Doing this is actually known to increase battery usage mate.

      Did you try updating the BIOS? It provides an important update for the thermal tables. Following the BIOS update + all the performance tuning optimisations, I started watching youtube videos for an hour on a full charge, and by the end of it, I still had 80%+.

      It's still not the best choice for an on-the-go laptop, but as a workstation laptop it is still sensational value for money. Would take this over any gaming laptop if I needed one.

  • Apparently mine is still 'on its way to the store', despite the pick up date still listed as Thursday. Think I'll be cancelling the order soon…

    • Can I buy it off you instead?

  • This machines is not full aluminium. I unscrewed and opened the base, found it constructed by 2 layers, the outer one is aluminium and inner one is plastic, you also can confirm this by look the side of the USB port, you can see two layers construction. The base is very thin, as someone mentioned that if you push the plate near the fan site, it touch the fan. If you can't get this deal, I would suggest another acer model with 7840U with OLED for $1297, https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/acer-swift…. 3dmark Stress test: CPU and GPU highest temperature 75

    • Yeah, I got this deal in the end.

      It's really problematic how picking up the laptop can cause the fan to come in contact with the bottom plate. Makes a worrying screeching noise. This surely is not good for the fan.

      • Other than that how are you finding it?

        Fan ever silent?
        Battery longevity as bad as one or two others have reported here?

  • +2

    I expect mine to arrive sometime later this week, I'll use it for a day or two and give my impressions here.
    We'll see about the concerns people are having, but remember this is a sub $1k laptop and there have to have been tradeoffs somewhere

    • Make sure you update the BIOS for optimal power efficiency.

  • Hi, if anyone wants to sell it or thinking to return i can buy it. Message me.

    • +1

      "User doesntmakesense does not accept new conversations.“

      I am happy to sell mine to you. Reinstalled with a clean Win11 Pro.

      No packaging but everything as new….

      • If you're near Sydney i'll take it off your hands

        • Yes..

          • @tc423: Send me your dets through pm, my accounts too new can't message yet. lol

      • @tc423 just fixed it, try to send now pls I can't send messages cause acc is too new

  • Hi, I can also buy it if someone looking to return/sell it in/around Perth. Thanks.

  • +6

    I have some general thoughts and observations now that I've been using this laptop for about a day. If my experience changes I'll update..
    Going in, you must remember that this is a $1K laptop. Here's a mini-review that covers some things people are weary about:

    It may help if you treat it as a premium gaming laptop, tuned towards creators, rather than a quiet thin-and-light. Overall the aluminium build is nice but is thin in some areas as noted by others. Pressing down on the area around the fan can cause it to touch, however, just holding it normally doesn't cause this - I have to push on it intentionally to get the fan to make funky noises.

    Coming from a Lenovo Yoga 920, it doesn't feel like much of a downgrade and is only slightly heavier at ~1.5kg.

    Holy balls, the screen is excellent! If I'm being honest it's probably one of the nicest in my house, there's a good amount of brightness and while Acer doesn't state an official deltaE value in terms of colour accuracy, it covers 100% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut and online reviews have tested it to be anywhere between 0.65 (holy shit that's good) and around 2 (also very good). Movies and videos look great, I spent a couple of hours in Photoshop / Lightroom and have nothing to complain about. This is the first time I'm using a 16:10 display and it's really awesome for the extra vertical space which lets me see more layers/text in whatever program I'm using. The combination of OLED + 120hz is amazing for games as well due to the incredible response times.

    Now, about the fan. It's really not that bad. I was anxious about it while waiting for this laptop to arrive based on the other comments and while it's not silent, it's really not an issue either. I've found that putting the laptop into "Best power efficiency" while unplugged and setting the fan mode to silent allows it to be quiet enough. Plugged in, it's definitely louder, and it's likely because I have it set to be in balanced mode. At the end of the day, as the other person said earlier in this thread if you were after a silent laptop you shouldn't be looking at ones with a dedicated GPU.

    It's of lower pitch than my other laptop and honestly, I prefer it.

    Battery life. As of typing this, the laptop is at 86% and Windows says I have 7 hours and 24 minutes of battery left. Keep in mind that when you first set up the laptop and Windows automatically installs all the drivers and performs first-time setup etc it's going to make your laptop work - and thus the power estimate will be wildly inaccurate until you use the laptop for longer amounts of time and the system has data to train itself on. For example, I started a file transfer and my estimated time shot down to 2 hours, but for the ~3 minutes I was transferring files I hardly lost 1% battery. I reckon realistically with the way I use it, I could pull about 6 hours on battery alone.

    It's a 76Wh battery, so not small, not the biggest. Personally, I think it would be able to last a school/uni day, but I would bring the charger with me anyway, or a small GaN charger to top up every now and then. You could compare it to the battery life of some older-generation laptops, maybe we've just been spoiled with all the great laptops coming out these days. I'm thinking that reducing the refresh rate from 120hz to 60hz will likely make a noticeable difference in battery life, but I haven't tried.

    If it matters to anyone, the sound coming out of the audio jack is pretty good. It drove my 300 ohm HD6XX to fairly loud volumes at 20% in Windows. The built in speakers while loud are down-facing and not amazing, but that's a compromise I don't care about.

    Driver Page
    Things I did while setting up the laptop:
    - Made sure bios was up to date
    - Installed dptf driver
    - Removed all the junk that wasn't needed such as McAfee (I kept all the audio drivers and Acer Quick Access)
    - Went and turned off speaker noise cancellation in Realtek Audio Console (apparently this affects battery too)
    - Used CTT winutil to do some more specific tweaks

    One problem I did have today, however, was that the machine kept BSODing due to the nvidia driver. I did a full removal of it with DDU and after reinstalling it, all issues were gone.

    Also if anyone wants to get rid of that annoying beep every time you plug/unplug the charging, just mute "Realtek HD Audio Universal Service" in sound mixer.

    Overall this laptop is great for portable video/photo editing or light gaming. I booted up some games such as Lego Harry Potter, Risk of Rain 2 among other things to test it out and as long as you have your expectations where they should be, it was a great experience in all of them.

    Please note that while this was my experience, it very well might not be yours. I was very positive about almost all the things here, but at the end of the day, if you don't like it, someone else will want it.

    • +1

      I have also just whipped up a simple website that lets you hear different audio samples I recorded while the laptop is doing various things:
      https://skullermoji.github.io/AcerSFX-AudioSamples/

      Another note is that the laptop might take a minute or two to go back to being quiet after doing something.

      • Thanks for the above review - useful additional perspective. Audio samples are good too - gives a sense of the difference between modes, but it naturally sounds worse with the volume up than down of course, so I'm not sure whether I'm hearing it how you would ;)

        • +1

          It's not the most scientific way of replicating it, you're right. That was sort of the idea of the mouse click reference.

          A crude way of doing it would be finding a mouse and then volume-matching your speakers to the click of the mouse, then listening to the samples at a distance you would usually put a laptop. It really isn't super accurate but I mean hey..

          • @itchy scratchy: Thanks. Great workaround. You even labelled the mouse as the reference for sound levels. Silly me! 👍

      • Thank you for your thoughts. Great to hear some firsthand knowledge on how it operates. How do you install the DPTF driver? I have it downloaded but I don't know how to actually apply it.

        Also, with the Nvidia driver, did you install the one from Acer's sit, or did you install the (newer) one from Nvidia themself? I know sometimes it's recommended that you apply the one from the OEM because it'll sometimes have model specific alterations baked into it.

        • I'm pretty sure for the DPTF driver you extract it and then run Setup_Driver.cmd

          As for the Nvidia driver, I went directly to the Nvidia website and selected the driver for 30 Series (Notebooks). As far as I know, the OEM driver has no special alterations for this model.

          • @itchy scratchy: Awesome. Thank you for the help. Pretty sure I was successful in updating DPTF with the instructions.

            If I can bother you some more, with the GPU update, did you do an uninstall of the existing driver/safe mode, or did you just apply it directly? Also, did you also update the Iris Xe GPU? Thanks once more.

            • @Captain Howdy: No problem at all. I used DDU to nuke the old Nvidia driver before installing the new one, didn't bother booting into safe mode - I just clicked remove and restart (not the best way but I was lazy)

              I pre-downloaded the driver installer so I could install it before Windows update tries to do it automatically.

              Did not bother with the iGPU, that wasn't giving me any issues so I left it.

    • Unboxed and what a screen!

      Just going through the update process to optimise this little beast, and really appreciate the roadmap you've shared here.

      A bit of a rookie question, but obviously wish to get it right:

      I note that this machine is already on v1.04 out-of-the-box.

      • Do I only need to install the BIOS v1.51 file, or do I need to apply each of the BIOS updates available on the Acer support page one-by-one, in order or release, to get all enhancements?

      I'm not sure if v1.51 is an accumulation of all the prior updates (thermal optimisation, battery setting etc) that came before it.

      Thanks in advance.

      • I believe you can update straight to the latest version, although mine already came with 1.51 so I haven't had to do it myself.

        If it doesn't let you, I don't see why installing them in order of release wouldn't work.
        Otherwise, 1.51 should have all the improvements of previous versions.

        Usually, when board manufacturers release a bios update they document if you need to be on a minimum version beforehand.
        For Acer, they don't mention anything on the driver page nor their BIOS update support page about having to install it sequentially

        • Thanks. Agreed - I read up on BIOS upgrades more generally after I commented and seems the latest would commonly include all who came before.

          For anyone who did have to update, did you run the .exe from within Windows, or did you load it onto a USB stick and boot into the Bios utility and run it from within there? I tried executing it from Windows and the OS didn’t know what to do with it, and wanted to search for a related app 🤣

          • @fookos: After looking at some video tutorials for different Acer models on youtube, the exe should be everything you need.

            1. Extract the zip
            2. Make sure the laptop is plugged in
            3. Run the exe, it should give an admin prompt, make sure you hit yes
              once the flasher program opens, you will be able to see which version you are upgrading to and the current version, from there it should do its thing.

            edit: Just tried it out, the process is the exact same on this laptop

            • @itchy scratchy: Thanks mate. Turns out I was doing everything correctly, but for some reason I had to go into Windows Security and disable one of the options in 'reputation-based protection'. Once I did that the file was able to execute and the BIOS updated with no issues.

    • Thanks for the detailed review!

      Do you get an issue where if you run Cinebench 2024, with it plugged in (on any power performance mode), it would use the P-Cores and E-Cores at max for about 10 seconds, before throttling the P-Cores down to a miserable ~400MHz, but with E-Cores are maxed out?

      The power management seems to be faulty for sustained performance. Yes, the body has limited thermal headroom, but blasting E-Cores above their efficiency curve and running P-Cores under the efficiency curve is just worst of both worlds. Have updated to latest drivers and Windows, tried all power management plans, even tried custom (lower) PL2 with ThrottleStop.

      • Running Cinebench 2024, all cores are consistently maxed for me, I've been running it/looping for over 10 minutes now. I'm using HWiNFO64 to view the sensors, perhaps your software is misreporting?

        I'll experiment with different settings to see if I can replicate what you're experiencing.

    • Hi, I could not find the option to turned off speaker noise cancellation, could you pls should me the steps

      • +1

        Use the windows search to open ‘Realtek Audio Console’. From memory it’s easy to spot once you’re in the right program.

      • Just like fookos said, open "Realtek Audio Console" from windows search, under Playback Devices select Speakers, then turn off "Speakers Noise Cancellation"

        • +1

          Hi, itchy and fookos. Thank you for advice, will try tonight

        • Find it that option and thank you

  • Anyone in the ACT willing to sell, please PM me. TIA

  • Anyone in Sydney needs this laptop. PM me thanks

    • -1

      returned to OW

  • Anyone selling in WA. Please pm. Thanks

    • You don't accept new conversations :( Enable or message me lol

      • Did both :-)

  • Hi still looking for this laptop. If anyone willing to sell in VIC please pm me. Thanks

  • Anyone looking to sell in NSW pm to sell thanks.

  • Has anyone found a good,reasonably priced dock for this?

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