Acer Swift 3X review: not quite swift enough Newer, but not quite better May 20, 2021, 12:54pm EDT If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Share this story Yep, this is a Swift. It has all the features that characterize Acer’s Swift line: a thin body, a lustrous Acer logo, a chassis so light it’s hard to believe you’re holding a laptop and not an empty shell. But the 3X is targeting a slightly different market from the Swift 3 and Swift 5 for one reason alone: it has a discrete GPU.