8 PCWorld JUNE 2020NEWS MACBOOK PRO 13 VS. ACER SWIFT 3
It’s pretty, but is it fast?.to Wi-Fi 6 when you’re using a Wi-Fi 6 router
(go.pcworld.com/w6rt). Hey, but you do get
that OLED Touch Bar that Apple users love to
hate (go.pcworld.com/lhte). All this can be
had for a mere $1,799. It’s about as expensive
and refined as a European performance car
with bespoke leather interior.
What happens though, if you’re at a
stoplight with your fine European
performance car, and a primer-painted
Datsun 510 (go.pcworld.com/d510) pulls up
and revs its engine? That would be the Acer
Swift 3, a 2.6-pound, 14-inch laptop with
Ryzen 7 4700U, 8GB of LPDDR4X/
memory, 512GB SSD, and Wi-Fi 6. Using
published performance data, we can actually
see what would happen.MACBOOK PRO 13 VS.
SWIFT 3 ON GEEKBENCH
The benchmark we have now is Geekbench- It’s a popular test that measures multi-core
WHAT’S INSIDE THE
MACBOOK PRO 13
The MacBook Pro 13’s spec list is first-class all
the way, starting with a 10th-gen Core
i5-1038NG7 with a base clock of 2GHz and
boost clock of 3.8GHz. You’ve probably
never heard of the chip before, and neither
have we. You can’t even find it in Intel’s official
database of CPUs. All we know is it’s an Ice
Lake chip built on Intel’s most advanced 10nm
process. It features four cores with Hyper-
Threading and Iris Plus graphics. We can’t
confirm it, but we strongly believe it to be a
28-watt TDP chip, which means it can
generate nearly twice the heat of a standard
15-watt TDP Ice Lake chip and therefore,
technically, run faster.
The rest of the MacBook Pro 13 is equally
luxurious, with four Thunderbolt 3 ports, a
beautiful 2560x1600-resolution panel, 16GB
of LPDDR4X/3733, and a 512GB SSD. Oddly,
Apple gives you only Wi-Fi 5, which is inferior