Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop

Acer calls the Swift Blade 14’s colors marshmallow blue and marshamallow white. Now I want sweets. | Image: Acer Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air's thinness and lightness - and in the process, it cops another laptop's name.

The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1. 76 pounds / 799g and measuring as little as 0. 51 inches / 12. 95mm thin. That's around 1. 7mm thicker than Apple's svelte 13-inch MacBook Air, but Acer's Blade is nearly a pound lighter.