Acer’s latest Swift 3 laptops surprised us, debuting in two versions that are slightly different, most notably in containing either AMD’s latest 7nm Ryzen 4000 series or Intel’s mobile Ice Lake chips. 

After all, this is simply Acer’s mid-priced thin-and-light laptop line, not normally expected to be exciting. Our most recent Swift 3 review liked most of what we saw, other than the audio and the battery life. 

But now with this announcement Monday at CES in Las Vegas, buyers are faced with an AMD-vs.-Intel decision, such as we’ve explored recently with the Microsoft Surface Laptop 3. Which should you buy? We won’t know until we test them, but a close look at the specs we know now present some interesting points of comparison.

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