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Pros
Pro Good battery life
The i3 and i5 models can get a good 10 hours of use (sometimes even more) with simple tasks such as web browsing or watching videos. The i7 version is a bit less efficient when it comes to daily tasks but not by much, simple use with an i7 version will still give you ~7 hours of battery life on average.
Pro Good performance for the price
The Swift 3 performs quite well for the price and laptop class it belongs to. Everyday tasks are handled without problem, multitasking is not a problem neither, and it can also play some lightweight games (DoTA, LoL, Team Fortress 2) at decent framerates as well as some more demanding software such as Photoshop and Mathlab without overheating the hardware or lagging.
Cons
Con Fairly noisy
The Acer Swift 3 has two small fans which sit on the CPU and GPU. Unfortunately they are rather agressive and start spinning even at low temperatures. Even something as simple as opening a browser will prompt both fans to start spinning quite fast. If you also keep in mind that both these fans have a fairly high pitched hum, then it's soon clear that this laptop is not the quietest on the market.