Display and Bombardment Life

There are a couple of other things I wanted to discuss before wrapping upwardly this review of the Switch seven. The display is a 13.five-inch 2256x1504 IPS LCD that's surprisingly practiced out of the box. Information technology's non perfect, in that color performance is non every bit tight every bit I'd like for professional work, but the panel has a lot of great inherent qualities. Viewing angles are great, brightness peaks at near 400 nits, and the contrast ratio is a fantastic 1681:1.

Well-nigh of the color problems come down to an incorrect average color temperature of 7163K, which should be closer to 6500K. As a result, nosotros get a greyscale deltaE average of 3.04, a saturation average of ii.53 and a ColorChecker average of 2.49. It's not an ideal sub-1.0 or even a largely accurate sub-2.0 value, but many laptops push button well higher up boilerplate deltaEs of 3.0 or 4.0 in a lot of these tests, so comparatively the Switch vii's brandish is quite good.

Unfortunately, battery life is quite poor. The best 13-inch convertible or traditional laptops include a 50 to 60 Wh battery, only the Acer Switch 7 is express to just a 35 Wh cell, and I doubtable that's due to the inclusion of the large heatpipe libation and discrete GPU. To put this in perspective, the smaller current-gen Surface Pro includes a 45 Wh battery and only needs to power a 12.3-inch display. The Switch 7 is significantly limited in this regard.

And y'all tin encounter the results quite clearly in these benchmarks, with the Switch seven falling well behind acceptable levels for a modern laptop-style device. While not a direct competitor, a xiii-inch convertible like the HP Spectre x360 lasts more than 75% longer in our Wi-Fi spider web browsing test; an enormous discrepancy. This sort of battery life affects the usage of a production, particularly something every bit portable every bit the Switch.

However this level of battery life is quite clearly a trade-off that's been made for the added functioning. It'southward a much faster device than the Surface Pro, particularly when connected to the charger, but it also has significantly worse battery life. That'southward something you'll demand to weigh up when choosing to purchase this tablet.