This mid-range Acer laptop is my go-to for work travel, and it's on sale

• The Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) is on sale now at Amazon for $791.
• It's a lightweight, responsive laptop with a touchscreen, and a slick media playback menu.
• However, for a laptop so optimized for media, its speakers aren't the best.

The 14-inch Acer Swift Go was among the first round of laptops to come loaded with Intel's Meteor Lake AI processors last year, and it does so for a sale price of $791, a mid-range price point right in the sweet spot for many consumers. 

The Intel Core Ultra 7 or 9 processor isn't this laptop's only draw, but it does offer impressive performance that propels it to hang with other machines like the Asus Zenbook A14, and the Lenovo ThinkPad E14, both of which are more expensive.

Also: I replaced my ThinkPad with a Lenovo Legion laptop for work, and didn't regret ...