Acer refreshes Swift, Aspire notebooks with gaming-class hardware

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Neither the thin-and-light Swift laptop nor Acer's Aspire lineup are usually associated with gaming-class processors and GPUs.

You may have to rethink how you view Acer’s Swift and Aspire laptops. Today, Acer announced refreshes of both lines that include, believe it or not, gaming-class hardware.

In fact, Acer announced a sweeping refresh of its entire laptop fleet, including the Swift 3 OLED, a new Aspire 5, and many new entries in Acer’s eco-friendly Vero lineup, too. The company made the announcements in conjunction with its next@Acer event, held virtually.
 
Neither the thin-and-light Swift laptop nor Acer's Aspire lineup are usually associated with gaming-class processors and GPUs.
Because they aren't intended for long gaming sessions, those thin chassis can't properly disipate all the heat produced by the CPU and the dGPU working at their maximum capacities even some gaming laptops fail to do so.