acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop

at $950 I had to take the chance on this laptop despite some of the reviews being bad. If you’re considering this laptop my guess is you’re like me in that you dont want to build a pc yourself for whatever reason. I would say this was a fair purchase but if you can wait, i’d say save up a bit more and get a pc built for yourself at microcenter or something. I have played many games and all of them can be played on at least medium settings with no lag. That would include cyberpunk 2077 to give you an idea. I really only have one problem with the laptop and it makes it a bad long term investment. From fully charged, i can only game for maybe 50 minutes. Cant even reach an hour. If that sounds unpleasant to you then pass on this. Otherwise it serves its purpose for me in playing all the games I couldn’t on my previous laptop.

Months later and I am still pleased with the laptop. It acts a bit different from when I got it. Before I would only play games without it being plugged in and so I could only play for an hour before I turned it off to charge. In that state I could play most high end games on medium settings with no lag. That is no longer the case. Now I lag on the lowest settings on these games and even games I feel should not lag at all. But this is only while unplugged. While it is charging I can play any game I want on high settings and on some older games the highest settings. I play cyberpunk 2077 on high but that’s cause I don’t care to push the limits. This laptop can run anything care free while plugged but I just here to play in that state. I looked online and apparently that’s normal for gaming laptops, they utilize all their strength when plugged and it’s no problem playing in that state. But I’d hate for the battery to die sooner by doing that so I play a game called nioh while unplugged since it can handle it. And I play assassin’s Creed origins on the highest settings while plugged and charging up. I try not to play for long past the point it’s fully charged. So this is my experience, I say it was money well spent.

I like the size of the screen and the overall solid feel of the laptop. Its very fast and efficient.

The only con Ive found so far is it gets very hot (I do play my game for hours tho)

however the built in fans are very effective at the ultra setting and able to cool the laptop down substantially. So far great gaming laptop. Graphics are beautiful BUT screen brightness is lacking a little but not much.

Pros- Fast , Efficient, Good Graphics, Loud and clear sound quality.

Cons- Temp, Loud fans, Screen could be a tad bit brighter.

I got the model that goes for $799 regularly. No regrets with this purchase it does what I wanted it to do.

Sad to say I returned this laptop. Not because of the performance. It was great, just that it wasn’t for my necessary needs.

Great processor and dedicated video card. Played all the games I threw at it.

It’s that 1) I personally found it too heavy for a lap to be a laptop lol and 2) I wanted to upgrade the ram and storage. I figured if I do that I might as well get a laptop that already has the ram and storage I wanted as well as more updated graphics card

I would definitely suggest buying this if you’re in a gaming it’s a good game computer for the price

This is an amazing laptop for what you pay. The RTX 3050 is pretty dang capable and the 12th gen I5 processor is better than the 11th gen I7. There is a caveat that come with the price. First, it only comes with 1 stick of 8 gig RAM. This is pretty much the bare minimum that you can get away with for windows 11. Windows ran and I could even play a few games, but performance is throttled because the memory will be maxed out. There’s an extra DIMM to add memory. I would recommend that you buy at least one 8 gig stick of Crucial (this brand is approved to work with Acer) memory (DDR4 3200MHz CL22) and add it to the empty DIMM. It should be pretty cheap. I bought 2 sticks of 16 gig (32 total) for $70 and it’s running quick and smooth. Accessing the motherboard to replace the memory was probably one of the easiest laptops I have ever done. I’m also going to replace the M.2 drive with a Crucial T500 1Tb drive. The one it comes with is 500 gigs and the one I’m buying has a faster read/write speed but the drive it comes with is capable. Also, there’s 2 M.2 slots to use.

excelente laptop, yo lo compre por 23k, y por ese precio es la mejor de su categoría sin duda, aunque es pesada, cumple con su función que es de tener fuerza bruta y llevarlo a todas partes, el único detalle es el sonido de las bocinas, que la verdad son decentes, pero no son muy buenas, y la otra queja es que las marcas de las manos se quedan en la carcasa de la laptop con bastante facilidad.