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Thursday, 5 July 2018

Acer Nitro 5 review: A budget gaming laptop with one massive flaw

Acer Nitro 5

‘Gaming laptops’ and ‘cheap’ aren’t words that normally go together. Decent machines need well over a grand to be sunk on them. But Acer’s Nitro 5 is a stab at making a budget laptop gaming around the £800 / $900 mark.

At that price, you get an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor (you’ll have to wait for one of Acer’s Predator Helios laptops before we get a proper 8th Gen Coffee Lake model unfortunately), 8GB of RAM, a 15.6in 1920×1080 IPS display and a full-fat 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics chip – or a GTX 1050 Ti, if you’re in the US. Let’s see if it’s any cop.

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Source : rockpapershotgun.com