Gone are the days when all gaming laptops were giant 17-inch notebooks with chassis designs that were two or more inches thick and weighed enough to smother a puppy. The Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro is a modern gaming notebook focused on delivering a high-end PC gaming experience on the road. This laptop measures just 0.9 by 15.3 by 10.1 inches and weighs 5.29 pounds.The size and weight are more in line with a typical 15-inch consumer laptop ¡ and, unfortunately, so is the overall design. dell venue 11 pro power cord The Aspire V 15 Nitro is wrapped in thin, black plastic with a matte"soft touch" paint covering the exterior. You won't find a stylized exterior inspired by stealth aircraft on this gaming laptop; this is all about delivering quality performance in an affordable package.The screen lid is covered in the same thin black plastic used on the rest of the chassis but the lid is textured with a pattern of thin ridges across the lid. The metal hinge has a satin finish that wraps around the back edge of the notebook and also covers the air vents. On the bright side, asus u47a replacement battery the internal support frame from the chassis is quite good; meaning the notebook feels solid in your hands instead of feeling cheap and hollow.The overall design of the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro compares well to the similarly priced Lenovo Y50 gaming laptop. While the Lenovo suffers from some smudge-prone glossy plastics in a few places, the Acer keeps everything smooth and clean with matte surfaces. That said, asus t100 charger cable the flat keys on the Aspire V 15 Nitro aren't nearly as comfortable as the curved keys on the Lenovo Y50 when typing or playing games for several hours (more on that in the keyboard section below).As with most gaming notebooks with a thin-and-light design, the Aspire V 15 Nitro isn't the ideal choice for gamers who want to upgrade their notebooks after purchase. You won't find any quick access panels on the bottom of the chassis; you'll have to disassemble the entire bottom half of the laptop if you want to replace the battery, the M.2 format SSD, the standard 2.5-inch hard drive, or the wireless card.
Features
Most of the laptop's ports and connectors are located on the right side of the system, where you'll find a compact Gigabit Ethernet port, an HDMI-out port, three USB 3.0 ports, and a headset jack. On the front of the laptop is an SD card slot, asus x200ma ac adaptor and on the left is a Kensington lock slot for physically securing the system. Inside, there's dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, which isn't bad, but will be slower than the 802.11ac found on most current systems. The laptop has a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) for faster booting and better performance, with an additional 1TB hard drive for spacious storage. Unlike boutique vendors who will custom-build a gaming system and won't install many unwanted apps and programs, Acer loads up the Aspire V 15 Nitro the same way it does other consumer models. You'll find several apps on the start screen: t5740 power supply Netflix and HuluPlus for video; ebook and article readers like Amazon Kindle, NextIssue, Flipboard, and Zinio; retail apps from Amazon, eBay, and Booking.com; and other apps, like AccuWeather, Evernote Touch, and iStory Time. The system also includes Nvidia's GeForce Experience, which provides a single dashboard for installing and samsung np740u3e charger updating the drivers for the graphics card, along with several baked-in features, like ShadowPlay, for recording and sharing video during gameplay, GameStream, for use with the Nvidia Shield, and Battery Boost, which offers optimum gameplay and battery life for on-the-go gaming. Acer covers the Aspire Nitro V15 with a one-year warranty.
Display
The Nitro Black is a member of the growing club of laptops with 4K displays, but this screen isn't as bright as it is colorful.On the plus side, the 15.6-inch, 3840 x 2160 panel offers wide viewing angles with solid color reproduction. Watching the 4K "Interstellar" trailer, the sky blazed a brilliant blue despite a huge billowy m15x battery dust cloud. Matthew McConaughey's eyes were often the focal point of every scene, adding an intense contrast to his brown, weathered skin. The panel showed off the minute indentations in his spacesuit as well as the fine wrinkles and furrows crisscrossing his face.when tested for color reproduction, the Nitro Black hit 97.8 percent, higher than the 83.9 percent category average and the Y70 Touch (87 percent). It's only slightly below the HP Omen and the GS60 Ghost, lenovo yoga 3 power adapter both of which measured 98 percent.However, colors were far from accurate. On the Delta-E test, the Nitro Black notched 10.5, which is far from the perfect 0 ideal and the category average of 6. The Omen was somewhat better at 10.1, while the Y70 Touch and GS60 scored 2.7 and 2.9, respectively. The Nitro Black's display might be super-high res, but it's not that bright. The laptop hit only 212 nits on the light meter, below the 253 mainstream average. That's much brighter than the Y70 Touch's measly190 nits. However, acer aspire s3 battery it's barely a flicker compared with the Omen (269 nits) and the Ghost (299 nits).
Keyboard and Touchpad
First, the good things: the Nitro Black's keyboard is large with generous spacing, a full number pad and bright red backlighting. Now for the bad stuff. Key actuation wasn't too shabby at 55g, but the keys are stiff and have very shallow travel at 1.25 mm, which is below the acceptable range of 1.5-2 mm.The 4.25 x 3-inch touchpad provided swift, smooth functionality, including two-finger scroll and rotate as well as Windows 8.1 gestures. The bottom corners of the pad were passable as right and left click buttons despite their mushy feedback.
Performance
The heart of the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro (VN7-591G-75S2) is a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7-4710HQ quad-core processor. The performance from this CPU is quite good and the Acer performed well during our various tests despite the fact that it has only 8 GB of RAM; that's just half the memory of competing systems.Of course, this is a gaming notebook and that means most potential buyers care more about the graphics than the CPU and RAM. The Aspire V 15 Nitro is equipped with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M dell m3800 power adapter with 2 GB of dedicated memory and that is more than enough for an entry-level gaming rig. The Aspire V 15 Nitro delivered a solid 46 frames per second in Max Payne 3, a similar 41 fps inBioShock: Infinite, and a less impressive but still playable 25 fps in Thief, all running at full 1080p resolution and high-detail settings. You can always get faster frame rates by lowering the detail settings or resolution. Most gamers shopping in the sub-$1500 price range will be very happy with how the Aspire V 15 Nitro handles current game titles.The Aspire V15 Nitro also includes a 128 GB solid-state drive for faster booting and better overall bose soundlink ii charger performance along with an additional 1 TB hard drive for storing a large library of games. Unfortunately, out-of-the-box performance is hindered by Acer's continued practice of installing a massive collection of bloatware. The Windows desktop on our review unit was filled with 16 application shortcuts that many users will find completely unnecessary. To make matters worse, if you don't uninstall many of these bloatware apps, they may crash your game in the middle bose soundlink 2 charger of gameplay with an annoying popup message. While we understand that profits from installing these applications allow Acer to offer laptops at lower prices, this amount of bloatware is inexcusable on a gaming notebook.
Battery Life
As we previously mentioned, the battery life in our review unit of the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro benefits from the use of a FHD display. Those 3K and 4K screens consume a crazy amount of power. Nvidia's Optimus automatic power management features undoubtedly played a key role in preserving battery power as well. sony sgpt111gb s charger The Aspire V 15 Nitro lasted for 3 hours and 29 minutes in our extremely demanding PowerMark benchmark test running in balanced mode. The test is a continuous loop of automated web browsing, word processing, gaming, and video playback workloads designed to simulate non-stop work in a variety of tasks. In terms of less demanding real-life use, you can expect the Acer to keep running for close to 5 hours if you occasionally take a break.
Conclusion
There are several entry-level gaming systems currently available, but the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro (VN7-591G-75S2) looks to be the best of the bunch right now. With a solid component selection and feature list matched galaxy note 10.1 chargers by excellent performance and decent battery life, the Aspire V 15 Nitro easily pushes past our previous entry-level Editors' Choice, the MSI GX70 3Be-007US, and even makes a good run at more expensive systems, lenovo thinkcentre m72e tiny ac power adapter like the MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K. With that sort of showing for such a reasonable price, the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro (VN7-591G-75S2) easily earns our Editors' Choice entry-level gaming laptop.