Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars with 123 reviews
4.2- Gaming (29)
- Price (27)
- Performance (9)
- Cpu (5)
- Budget-friendly (3)
- Battery life (10)
- Screen (5)
- Heavy (2)
- Loud (2)
- Speakers (2)
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- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great Value Gamer
I bought this on sale in July of 2018 to get back into gaming with my friends. I had read about this model for a bit over a week and knew what to expect, great CPU/GPU, speedy and fairly spacious SSD, only single channel memory so I can upgrade to 16 later, an empty 2.5” bay for expansion, and a decent 1080 IPS wrapped in a clean designed case. Notebookcheck has a very thorough review that left nothing to guess. Excellent performance, great graphics at full resolution, good thermals, decent battery life. The only shortcoming, to be fair I knew to expect at this price was the backlight bleed. And it’s prone to fingerprints on the lid I really do enjoy this laptop and recommend it to anyone who games, goes to school, and can deal with some backlight bleed.
Posted by cjphilip
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great entry level gaming laptop
Got a great deal on this laptop at $650. The quad core I5 and 1050Ti are a great pairing and can handle most games at high settings. The panel could be a bit better but isn't terrible. It tends to get a little warm in intense games, but haven't had issues with throttling so far. It's all plastic, but nice build quality. Good features and performance from an entry level gaming laptop.
Posted by oldgamer
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great Value, Great Laptop
The Acer Nitro 5 provides a great laptop for the price. It handles everything I’ve thrown at it with medium to high settings at 60fps (1080p). Upgrading the RAM and adding a HD for storage was simple. If you are looking for best bang for you buck, the Acer Nitro series is the way to go.
Posted by Lokee
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great laptop at a great price
I got this laptop to take with me on the road simply to get into WoW and several other games just to do mail and run the simplest of dailies. Imagine my surprise when it ran these games as well as my older but still high end desktop. And its now on sale for even less than what I paid now. If you are looking for decent portable gaming with out breaking the bank, this machine is worth a good look!
Posted by Mord
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Overall a decent midlevel laptop
Not a bad buy on sale a few quirks keyboard is backlit and dark red/orange cant leave it on when unplugged no way to control on of for it off all by itself wouldn't be bad if it wasn't so dark that you cant see the keys overall I would give this a 3.5 if I could
Posted by 12345