Wish they were including a Macbook Air with Asahi Linux running on it. Nowadays you can get an M1 for $750 on sale or an M2 for $900. Even though these are the 8GB models only they are very much comparable to the review models in the test.
It's not fair to be comparing it with the passively cooled and throttled Macbook Air. The Acer Swift Edge is a 16" twin fan air cooled machine. You should compare it to the top of the line MBP for a fair benchmark without thermal throttling concerns.