![]() ![]() Lift the lid and such stylings continue with the red accented, backlit keyboard sat in the middle of a chunky black plastic chassis, which seems to attract dust with gusto. There’s a simple Acer logo on the faux carbon fibre lid - which picks up fingerprints pretty easily - rather than a dragon, angry eye or some other semi-obnoxious decal, but the Lamborghini/stealth bomber look favoured by so many gaming laptops does rear its head with its sharp, angular edges, large vents and burnt red trim. ![]() Let's see if it's any cop.Īcer fit these innards into a chassis that’s both simultaneously proud and shy of its gamer credentials. But Acer’s Nitro 5 is a stab at making a budget laptop gaming around the £800 / $900 mark.Īt 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 1920x1080 IPS display and a full-fat 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics chip - or a GTX 1050 Ti, if you're in the US. Decent machines need well over a grand to be sunk on them. 'Gaming laptops' and 'cheap' aren't words that normally go together.
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