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. | 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.