Acer Swift X (2021) vs HP 14" Laptop

The Acer Swift X (2021) is rated higher for general use than the HP 14" Laptop because it packs a more powerful graphics card, better screen brightness, and longer battery life, enhancing overall user experience in various tasks and multimedia use. While both have similar CPU and RAM, making them competent for everyday tasks, the Swift X's better build quality, heat management, and fan noise handling contribute to a more pleasant and efficient user experience compared to the HP, which has lesser storage and does not manage heat and noise as effectively.

The Acer Swift X (2021) surpasses the HP 14" Laptop in engineering and design largely because it has a more powerful GPU, the Nvidia RTX 3050, which is crucial for graphically intensive tasks. Additionally, although both laptops feature a similar screen size and quality, the Swift X has better color coverage making it more suitable for design work where color accuracy is important, and its keyboard quality is rated higher than the HP, which can affect prolonged periods of typing.

For general use, the Acer Swift X stands out due to its higher resolution and brighter display, providing crisp text and vivid details, while the HP 14" Laptop's screen is adequate but less sharp and dimmer, making it less ideal for prolonged use or multimedia consumption. In engineering and design, the Acer Swift X offers better color accuracy with wider color gamuts, essential for detail-oriented tasks like photo editing or CAD work, where precise color representation is necessary; the HP 14" doesn't quite match up, which may affect professionals who require color fidelity. For 3D and gaming, the refresh rate on both laptops may not be high enough for the smoothest experience, but resolution and panel quality on the Acer Swift X are somewhat better, offering clearer visuals despite not achieving the optimal fluidity that high refresh rates provide.

Battery life estimate is based on a mix of common use patterns. More portable and higher performing laptops tend to have less battery life.

PerfectRec’s Build Quality Score incorporates case materials, display and keyboard flex, hinge quality, and overall reliability.

The Acer Swift X (2021) features a dedicated Nvidia RTX 3050 graphics card, which is typically more capable for gaming and 3D applications than the integrated AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Vega 7 GPU found in the HP 14" Laptop, however, both laptops have standard screen refresh rates which may limit gaming performance. Despite the better GPU in the Acer, neither are top-tier gaming machines, and both have screens with the same resolution and refresh rate, which are important for visual performance in gaming and 3D tasks.

PerfectRec’s Content Creation Score takes into account the many different features of the laptop that make it more or less suitable for photo editing, video editing and other content creation tasks.

PerfectRec’s Software Development Score takes into account the many different features of the laptop that make it more or less suitable for software developers.