The Acer Swift 14 AI is the latest addition to Acer's well-known Swift line. With the new Copilot+ PC designation, it offers a pinch of futureproofing through enhanced compatibility with AI-driven productivity tools.

If you're wondering what a Copilot+ PC is, it's Microsoft's rubberstamp for machines equipped with an NPU (neural processing unit) sporting at least 40 TOPS of computing power, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage, enabling it to handle a broad range of AI-enhanced features, especially upcoming ones like Recall.

AI PCs aren't entirely new — last year's models dabbled in the concept but with less oomph, with NPUs hovering around 10 TOPS.

NPU: what it actually does


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But aren't AI applications like ChatGPT and Copilot still largely a cloud-based affair? So why even bother with an NPU onboard?

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