Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G [A515-51G-72LN] (NX.GVLEU.036)

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The Taiwanese company Acer produces high-performance laptops in a wide price range. Acer Aspire 5 is a full-fledged representative of the middle class devices. It has a minimalistic design that is more suitable for an office, while at the same time offering good performance.

The laptop screen is made using TN + film technology with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and viewing angles that are unusually good for this type of matrix. The matte finish protects the eyes from glare, but somewhat conceals the saturation of the image. In general, the screen is not bad, but this is clearly not what the Acer Aspire 5 will be praised for in reviews.

Balanced iron

As for the filling, the laptop is equipped with a dual-core Core i7 processor with operating frequencies of 2.7 – 3.5 GHz and multi-threading support. On paper, the processor, although not the most powerful, in most synthetic tests, it keeps up with inexpensive quad-core chips. In conjunction with it, the standard for this class 8 GB of DDR4 RAM and 1000 GB HDD and the GeForce MX130 graphics card work, which opens up access to full-fledged gaming. Of course, it won’t work to drive completely fresh shooters on it, but it’s quite possible to play at medium graphics settings in Battlefield 4 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Reliable and durable housing

The Aspire 5 weighs 2.2kg and measures 381.6x263x21.6mm. Such a mass is explained by the fact that its body is made of thick and durable plastic. There are only metal panels for the hands and a frame around the keyboard. It can be seen that Acer has tried to keep the price as low as possible. But I am glad that they did not save on the build quality — the case is assembled to last, and the cover made of thick and durable plastic could probably stop a couple of blows from a professional boxer.

USB-C support

Finally, we note the presence of a USB-C port, which has not yet become a regular in the middle class and is found every other time in laptops under $700 .. And a good 3220 mAh battery that can power a laptop away from a power outlet for 7 hours.