Laptop weighing 1.5 kg, RTX 5060, and a fine OLED display! Acer Swift X 14 AI is on a great deal

Getting a powerful dedicated graphics card into a thin and light laptop has always been a bit of alchemy — and Acer, with its Swift X series, shows that it’s getting better and better. Acer Swift X 14 AI is on Alza for 43 191 Kč after applying the code ALZADNY10. From the original price of 47 990 Kč, this is a drop of almost five thousand, and for this price tag, you get an ultrabook with an RTX 5060 and a 14.5″ OLED display — which is a relatively rare combination.

Quick summary:
✅ Makes sense if you’re looking for a laptop for creative work (photography, video, 3D) and occasional gaming, which you can also easily carry in a backpack. The OLED display with 100% DCI-P3 coverage and dedicated graphics are a combination that competitors rarely offer at this weight.
⚠️ Consider that the display is only touch-enabled, not pen-enabled — the included stylus only works on the touchpad, which is a bit confusing. And for an Ethernet connection, you’ll need a USB-C adapter.
💡 For 43 191 Kč you get an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 with NPU 50 TOPS, RTX 5060 8GB, 32 GB LPDDR5x RAM, 1TB SSD, 14.5″ OLED 2880 × 1800 with 120 Hz, Corning Gorilla Glass Pro, 76Wh battery, and an all-metal body weighing 1.57 kg.

Thin ultrabook with RTX 5060 graphics

The Swift X 14 AI relies on a combination that sounds almost paradoxical on paper — a thin body of 9.76 mm, a weight of 1.57 kg, and a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 with 8 GB GDDR7. For comparison, a classic gaming laptop with similar graphics usually weighs 2.3 to 2.8 kg and is significantly thicker. Acer addresses this by having the mobile RTX 5060 in gaming laptops typically operate with a TGP of around 115 W, while in the ultrabook variant, it ranges between 80–90 W. In practice, this means that in games, you get roughly 80-90% of the performance of a traditional gaming laptop, but in a device that is half the size and weight.

In addition, AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 with 8 cores and 16 threads based on Zen 5 architecture. The combined AI performance of 66 TOPS (50 TOPS from NPU) exceeds the 40 TOPS requirement for Copilot+ PC certification, so all AI features in Windows 11 (Live Captions, Studio Effects, Cocreator in Paint) are available here, including others that Microsoft is gradually adding.

The display is one of the main attractions — 14.5″ OLED with a resolution of 2880 × 1800 (16:10 aspect ratio), a refresh rate of 120 Hz, and 100% Adobe RGB and DCI-P3 coverage. Brightness of 340 nits, DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, and Corning Gorilla Glass Pro protection. For photographers and video editors, it’s a very accurate panel; for consumers, it provides vibrant colors when watching movies. One user in a review points out that the display is glossy, so you might struggle with reflections in direct sunlight or near a window.

What to expect

There are a few minor points worth noting. The included stylus is a bit confusing — it doesn’t work with the display (which is touch-enabled but without pen support), but only via the touchpad as a substitute for a graphics tablet. If you were expecting a Surface-like experience with drawing directly on the screen, unfortunately, this laptop doesn’t offer that.

Furthermore — a classic Ethernet port is missing, so for a wired connection, you’ll need a USB-C adapter or a docking station. And HDMI or DisplayPort are not standalone here — you connect an external monitor via USB-C with DisplayPort Alt Mode (version 1.4, supporting up to 4K/120 Hz or 1440p/180 Hz). This is sufficient for most modern monitors, but if you have an older display with VGA or DVI, you’ll need to get an adapter first.

And one more detail for those who like to upgrade — the second M.2 NVMe slot is present, but it’s in the 2242 format, whereas most commonly sold SSDs are in the 2280 format. So you’ll either need a compact 2242 SSD (which are fewer and more expensive) or an adapter. However, the main 1TB SSD is more than sufficient for the vast majority of users.

What’s more important for you in a laptop — gaming performance, or portability and weight?