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Of all the laptops that were announced at Computex 2026, Acer's Swift Air 14 brought some much-needed color and affordability to a barrage of very powerful (and very expensive) high-end PCs. Starting at $699, the Swift Air 14 is a competitively priced laptop with competitive specs that doesn't feel cheap.

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Set to be released later this summer, the Swift Air 14 is just one of a few Windows PCs that are direct responses to Apple's MacBook Neo -- its $599 laptop that disrupted the budget laptop market so thoroughly that PC brands were forced to respond within a matter of months.