Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this laptop for my wife, she does light gaming such as sims 4 and frostpunk, and she absolutely loves it, boots quickly with the solid state drive, games run smoothly and just overall a great machine.

The chassis feels rugged. Games don’t lag at all. The camera didn’t work at first, found out that the free Webroot anti-virus software that you get with purchase blocked the camera from working. Overall decent gaming laptop.

This computer has it all! Compared to most gaming laptops it tops it all. Affordable, very sturdy, and the graphics are awesome! I did a lot of research and also wanted to stay under $900 and this was what we got and we are very happy with this purchase!

My 15 yr old daughter been looking around a good laptop that she can play games as well . This is great for a High school student hw purpose fast and has good specs to be a fortnite gamer too. She is very happy with this purchase thank you .

I bought this as a graduation gift for my son. He absolutely loves it and couldn't be happier. He uses it for gaming, music composition, and will use it for other school work in college. He said he's never seen a computer run so fast under heavy load.

A very solid gaming laptop for the price. I've been using it for a couple years now and it still works great. A couple things to note though; if you are ever going to remove the bottom panel to add or change parts, or just to work on it, it can be very difficult to remove. Look up a video of someone doing it, and just be slow and careful about it. Also, while this laptop can run games in pretty high quality, the CPU will get very hot. Upwards of 90c hot, which is not good for the CPU's lifespan, so I'd recommend using the GeForce experience program to set it to whisper mode, which will automatically reduce quality settings in some games to a level the computer can handle better. Also, look into other solutions for temperature management.

I would like to clarify that the screen is 1080p and the processor is an i5. In other words, this is not a hardcore gaming PC. Instead, it is a mid-range gaming laptop that will most likely not disappoint most players looking for a budget gaming portable computer. The GTX 1650 graphics card that comes in the Acer Gaming Laptop is much better than the GTX 1050. Smoother motion at almost 10 FPS above the latter at the same settings but it is not better than the GTX 1060. The image quality is not as detailed as with the 1060 but it did look brighter in some games. Personally, I tend to like brighter but details are just as important to me. In the case of the Nitro, I found it was a good compromise. It plays games very well at 1080p as long as you keep the settings to medium. All the games I played at those settings were smooth and detailed enough to keep me interested for hours but please don’t even try to push 4K on an external monitor/TV. You would be disappointed. You can connect it to a 4K monitor/TV. Just do not try to play at this higher resolution. The WiFi capability is good games but if you are playing many games that require being online all the time or if you are using a VR equipment such as the Oculus Rift, my recommendation is to connect it using an Ethernet cable. Still, I did not experience any issues with WiFi. I like back-lit keyboards and wish there were more colors available but red is ok with me. The ability to upgrade RAM and SSD drive is welcome. After testing with what came with it, I successfully upgraded the SSD to 500 GB and am planning to upgrade RAM to 16. I would just recommend anybody to add a mouse, especially a gaming one, for playing games. There are some USB ports for that, as well as a USB-C for high-speed/high=powered external devices and a HDMI port for monitors and TVs. Although I would like a gaming laptop to run for 8 hours or more on a single battery charge, we are not there yet. Thus, I do not test battery life in this type of laptop. Gaming requires a lot of power and there is not much that can be done about that. What is good news is that even playing games that typically warms up any laptop, the Nitro stayed relatively cooler, which is great for longevity of this type of device. Acer did a good job here. I had a hard time deciding whether to rate it as a 5- or 4-star gaming laptop but considering all that it brings at a budget level plus the ability to upgrade some parts, I thought that five stars was fair.

I was looking for a cheap gaming laptop on the internet and found this. I didn’t expect it to run well because it’s cheap but it actually works really well. I would recommend this if you are looking for cheap gaming laptops

the battery life is trash and this thing sounds like a plane taking off when gaming. but i kinda like this thing. not worth the $850 but it aint too bad of a laptop.

This laptop started great I took one star off due to the fact that it has the speakers facing down, horrible manufacturer's choice for the placement. On top of that it started giving problems I don't know if it was the charging port or the charger, around 75% battery it would say plugged in not charging. What good does a gaming computer does if you can't game peacefully without having to worry about it not charging and overheating. So for those two major issues is why I decided to take 2 stars off, without any of those problems I would have kept it no doubt about that.

The screen bends easily when pressure is applied, but other than that, the computer is excellent for what we payed for it. I would reccomend this to a friend any day, just have to inform them to take care of it.

solid computer , runs games decently and worth the price when I got it on sale but got a dead pixel on the screen sooner than it probably should have

The Acer Nitro 5 has an Intel Core i5-9300H processor with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 Graphics card, 8 GB of Ram on board and 128GB Solid State Drive with an additional 1TB HD which make this a pretty capable little machine. It has a 15.5 inch Full HD IPS Panel that looks fantastic and has in my experience no noticeable lag and has great contrast and viewing from an angle. A typical plastic laptop body that doesn’t feel cheap in any way, it feels quite sturdy actually and a fantastic red back-lit keyboard. Sound is adequate from the on-board speakers, I wouldn’t say its fantastic but overall it sounds good with good bass. As far as battery operation time, I get an average of almost 6 hours, your mileage may vary (up or down) depending upon what you are using the Nitro 5 for. There are a couple of issues. It does get pretty hot when using for graphics intensive games in particular and it is also lacking an SD card slot so if you want to use this for things other than gaming and web-surfing such as photography then you will need an external card reader in order to use for photo / video processing etc. but given the other pluses these are minor annoyances. A great thing about the Nitro 5 is its an Acer Elite Laptop, which gives you 24/7 dedicated support via the dedicated Acer Elite Support line along with the 1 Year Warranty. Overall a very capable gaming machine at an affordable price with most of what you look for in a gaming machine...processing and graphics prowess.

I bought this laptop last Monday and im very happy, its not the best gaming laptop on market but is a good laptop for sure, 2 hdd one of them ssd and the other one 2.5 mechanical, very bright screen.

Use this laptop for gaming and streaming and have no complaints so far. I’m not a hardcore pc gamer but it handles Destiny 2 well and streaming from PS4 to OBS.

Well it’s been over a year since we purchased this computer and it has surpassed my expectations. I use it several times a week for my flight simulator and it works great.

it is our main computer but also used to play one online game and so far so good. it is a little annoying that the lighted keyboard is hard to see when the lights go off after so long.

Everything you would want for a valie Gaming Laptop, fast boot up time with the SSD and plent of space for your games and other programs with the 2nd Hard Drive.

I picked up this up during the beginning of quarantine; and it has been great laptop for the price and specs. If you're looking for something reliable without breaking the bank this is it.

Runs beautifully. Bought for a sophomore to use for distance learning during Covid 19. Runs all her programs very nicely. She has only downloaded and played a few games on it but It no problems there.