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Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51 Review - Latest Model

What is the Acer Nitro 5?

I’ve seen a raft of expensive gaming notebooks over the past few months, so it’s refreshing to see a machine with a price that doesn’t push into four figures.

The Acer Nitro 5 is a £899 notebook that enters the super-competitive mid-range market with an Nvidia 10-series graphics chip, an Intel Core i5 processor and a keen sense of style.

Acer Nitro 5 – Design and build

You wouldn’t know that this is a cheaper gaming notebook from its design. The lid is a smart slab of brushed metal, the hinge is finished with an attractive dark red shade, and the red theme continues to the keyboard and trackpad.

It looks good, and its design aesthetic is shared with its key rival: the £869 Asus ROG Strix GL553. That machine also had a mix of dark plastic with colourful highlights, and its rear showed off the familiar Asus ROG logo.

The two machines look similar, but the Acer is a little chunkier than the Asus. The Acer weighs 2.7kg and it’s 27mm thick from top to bottom, while the Asus was a couple of hundred grams lighter and a couple of millimetres slimmer.

Those figures see the Acer fall behind, but these are minor infringements – the extra weight or depth won’t be noticeable in everyday scenarios.

Build quality has similar, minor infractions. The Acer’s hinge doesn’t move quite as smoothly as another one of its rivals: the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming was far smoother and a little more solid, albeit a little more expensive, too. There’s noticeable flex in the Acer’s base panel and the plastic around the keyboard, which is something that the Nitro shares with the cheaper Asus.