Customer Ratings & Reviews

Purchase this laptop for my special needs grandson 10 months ago, the hinges broke, the back cover came off, and the computer burnt up. What a waste, I know the laptop was not but $600 but it should have lasted longer than 10 months

After much searching, I got one of these for my wife from Best Buy for $599, which was an incredible Black Friday price. She has had it for around a month now, and we absolutely love it. In fact, I decided I needed one for myself, though I ended up buying it elsewhere as the price had risen (and our budget hadn't). But even for full price, this is a terrific laptop. We did not get it for gaming; the Bible and other software we use works really well on pc's with gaming specs. This is an astonishingly fast laptop. It comes on to the login screen from being turned off in literally about eight seconds. Reboot doesn't take much longer. Picture is good, sound is decent, and we both love the feel of the keyboard. The cooling system is wonderful. Her old laptop kept shutting down due to overheating; this one scarcely has to use the fan, is always cool. There isn't one thing we really don't like about it, and an awful lot we do. Heartily recommended! (Neither of us plays games, so this doesn't reflect that use.)

I have had this PC for 9 weeks and it's no longer working! Blank screen. Inoperable. I don't recommend. Disappointed in Best Buy products as I have always drove the extra mile to purchase my electronics there.

I do not know why I spent so much money on the whole Apple line of computers. I owned an MBP, mac mini, and now own an i7 MBA. I have always purchased PC's for work as much of the legal documents I work with are easier dealt with in PC. I am, however, in love with my Ipad Pro 10.5 --- the ultimate media consumption and e-mail checking tool aside from my smartphone. I do believe that Apple's beautiful aluminum computers are works of art, but I think that since Steve Jobst passed away, the wow factor for Apple has definitely waned. And I think the PC world (and android!) has just about caught up in terms of functionality and definitely bang for buck. Well to get to the point. I love the typing action and the screen as I have been installing my apps and accounts onto this unit. The quickness with which websites and screens are loaded up are nothing like I have experienced before. I feel as if I was wasting my life away waiting before having bought this. Mind you, this is for just under $800, far below the cost of any apple computer with any serious processing power. I convinced myself it was time as my religious group is going to start working on putting together a musical and I wanted to have a computer that I could use to work on music and audio production. I fancy that we will be doing multiple tracks, effects, maybe even some synths and VSTs and other processing intensive tasks. I carefully considered the pros and cons of purchasing this unit at $729 versus the $649 version with the gtx 1050 (not ti) and the slower spinning harddrive (this one has the ssd). I did not want to deal with the drama of having a slower and more delicate spinning harddrive as I have gotten used to working with ssd's in my laptops and desktops. I also did not mind having the slightly faster GTX 1050 TI. I am sure this is not the fastest thing out there, but it is the fastest computer that this tech-savvy penny pinching professional is going to have for some time... it is going to do wonders for my ever day computing needs for work and at the same time will be able to handle the creative work I do in the music world. By the way, there is a crackling effect that I have been experiencing to the sound. I don't mind it for the moment, especially if updating the drivers makes it go away. I will keep an eye on it. Ciao.

Broke in 2 years. The keyboard didn’t function and and the microphone stop working. Very disappointed

This laptop stopped working the day I bought it. I ended up returning it and getting something else. Quality and price don’t seem to go hand and hand with this one.

Computer failed crashed on the first day of use would power on but screen would not come up. Best Buy sales tec said just one of those things that happen from time to time.

Excellent value plays current games (such has COD WW2) at decent frame rates and with good lcd, keyboard, and SSD. Several economic compromises to reach price point do no limit common use (last gen i5), smallish ssd, 8gb of ram, paired with best priced 1050. 2018 first time in years can get functional gaming laptop at this price point.

For those consumers who are looking for a budget minded, mid range gaming laptop, Acer is definitely in the race. This unit is marketed with a 256 GB SSD (Solid State Drive), but if you have a large collection of video games you may wish to swap out your SSD and install something a bit larger if you wish to download them onto your drive. For the average gamer, the Nitro 5 specifications should be more than enough to satisfy your gaming pleasures. If you are a hardcore gamer, this model laptop may not be powerful enough to enable a 4K resolution during game play, but please consider that you would have to spend significantly more money to achieve this. The Acer Nitro, has a keyboard that is backlit which is controlled (either on or off), by simultaneously pressing the F9 key and the Fn Key. You are unable to customize the brightness of your keyboard. When I tested this unit, I was sitting in my living room (which has lots of natural light pouring in through the windows) I found it a little difficult to read and distinguish the lettering on the keys (especially on the top row) when the backlight was in the off position. I would imagine this is because the color of the keyboard is black and the backlighting for the keys are red. The overall fee of the keyboard was nice, not to spongy and not to hard. I have uploaded several photographs so that you can see exactly how the "lit" keyboard lettering appears. There are two photographs of the lit keyboard, and one that shows the appearance of the keyboard in natural lighting. The unit comes with a Webcam. so that you can Skype friends and family. The screen on the unit is matt (which tends to hide fingerprints as well as cuts down on glare), and the color definition is quite good and produces superior colors which are vivid. The built in speakers face downward, which for me was a little surprising. Sound production is usually hampered when not directly "top" mounted on a laptop. That being said, the overall sound was adequate and not collosal. If you enjoy concert level decibels, you would probably have to invest in a pair of external speakers. The Acer Nitro is a good gaming computer for the money. It comes with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 TI. Definitely not the "ultimate" with regards to specifications, but laptops fitted with a GTX 1070 or 1080 would perhaps would make the ultimate gamers a bit more happy with enhanced capabilities. Boot up time is amazingly fast, as this is my first experience with a solid state drive. The launching and opening of programs literally happens in a blink of an eye. You will immediately notice how fast this computer is. In my opinion, the Acer Nitro is generally a good gaming machine for its price. If you don't mind sacrificing some graphics and some additional frames per second during game play, this unit is for you. If you are in the category of an average gamer (which I think fits most consumers), this laptop is for you. This unit makes my recommendation list and is sure to please the average gamers out there. Hope you enjoy you new device, as much as I am. Game on!

I have a PC that is about 6 months old with statistically better attributes than this laptop, but it doesn't perform any where near as well as this laptop. This surprised the heck out of me, especially considering that my PC is meant for gaming and has so much more real estate for components. I have done some web surfing, some emailing, but mainly I am using this laptop to play games such as Public Battlegrounds and Fortnite, which it is excelling at. PubG graphics settings are set pretty high and I am seeing over 100fps a vast majority of the time. I have not seen a single noticeable dip during intense fighting, even in the red zone, and the picture is CLEAR. Fortnite isn't anywhere near as demanding as PubG, but it also runs flawlessly. I need to get a second mouse to use with this laptop, so I have been using a controller (both Xbox One and PS4) and they also integrate very well with this computer. The CPU also stays cold during gaming. While monitoring, it never rose above 50* C. The keyboard is pretty nice also. I prefer it to my gaming keyboard on my PC, and I really appreciate having the number pad for using this laptop for something other than gaming. This laptop also came with a very nice travel sleeve that zips shut and matches the simple, yet stylish aesthetics of this laptop. The only issues I can see with this laptop is the "feel" of the touch pad isn't to my liking and it shows fingerprints very easily. You shouldn't use it for gaming (no one does, I know), but it is slightly awkward during normal use as well. I find myself right clicking a lot when I mean to left click, as there aren't any visually defined buttons, but I am sure that will come with continued use. Also, the fan gets a little loud, but with the work it is doing, I don't mind the extra noise. This Acer Laptop will fit all your needs at a price that you can stomach paying. I look forward to using this during an upcoming vacation and any other time I will be out of town but still want to connect and play with friends back home.

A keeps getting the blue screen of death every few minutes period! Very depressing! Can I get my money back or a new machine or what?

THE COMPUTER DIDN'T WORK but the employees were chill BUT THE LAPTOP WAS SENT TO ME BROKEN but the employees handled the situation nicely

Show me a laptop that has better specs for the price, this one can't be beat in terms of it's hardware. I use this laptop in grad school to do school work and run various PC specific accounting programs. This computer is a great size at 15.6 inches but is definitely heavy (6lbs?) The i5 8th gen performance is good and so is the 1050ti with battlefield 5 on medium to high settings. The only complaint I have is that when gaming, this thing gets very loud, as in you are annoying your neighbors around you loud in the library. Also the battery is not 5.5 hours, more like 3.5. if you are gaming however, it's only around 1 or so

It was pretty decent for a budget laptop, unfortunately it died right after the warranty expired.

I bought this labtop for my husband as a Father’s Day present, 3 days later the Lbt just shut off and did not turn on again.

Screen tearing in games. Returned. Slow and can barely run a FPS shooter like overwatch at 60fps on medium

Worked for less then year and half and now it won’t start up waste of money

It’s been 8 months since my last review. The laptop is still running very strong and never suffers any heat issues or throttling. Blizzard must have done something with WoW BFA, because I run it at max settings with 100+FPS. (Over 60 doesn’t matter much unless you have a better monitor attached) I’m able to run LoA, WoW, fortnite all on max settings while streaming to twitch at 1080p. I also run the New World Alpha at max settings no problem. It’s NDA, so all I can say is I play this graphically stunning game at max settings. Keep in mind that the 8th gen core i5 is slightly better than the 7th gen core i7, which was the had-to-have chipset for previous high end gaming laptops. The 4 cores and 8 threads offers plenty of power for running a game and streaming, without the need for a second computer to handle stream capture. Overall, this is the best bang for the buck laptop, bar none. If you’re on a budget, why haven’t you bought this yet? I’m serious! Stop reading this review and go buy this laptop, your search for a budget friendly gaming laptop is over....

The hinges to open and close the screen broke after about 6 months. Not a very durable design.

From what I have experienced the laptop is pretty powerful. The fan isn't the quietest but it isn't the noisiest either. The SSD allows for very quick boot times. The GPU and the DDR4 8 GB of RAM allow for the laptop to run most demanding games on at least medium quality or higher. Battery life is short when the GPU is in use (but who buys gaming laptops for battery life anyways) The CPU is a Intel Core i5 8th Gen which believe it or not performs slightly better than the Intel Core i7 7th Gen. The keyboard's red lighting can be toggled on and off by pushing Fn+F9.