Acer Aspire 5 Gaming Intel Core i5 12th gen (12-Cores) (8 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 11 Home/4 GB Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050) A515-57G/ Gaming…

Acer Aspire 5 cons: 1) Not that fast
2) Very low speaker sound
3) Games run on 35-40 fps max thats all you get
4) Nvidia Graphic card is only 15watts
5) No usb type c slot
6) No DVD writer ( you dont need it in 2023)
7) Cannot add normal SSD or HDD
8) Very high power consumption
9) 4GB graphics memory insufficient to run even 2012 games (EG: GTA5 needs 6gb atleast for good qualilty., rest of the games post 2023 need atleast 12 GB graphics memory)
10) Insufficient cooling vents. Only one vent on the right top of the laptop below the screen.
11) Gets very hot not suitable to place on lap or it will burn your skin.

Pros: 1) Decent Screen quality and size
2) 3 usb slots( 2 on left and one on right) + Thunderbolt slot +lan cable slot + HDMI slot + 3.5mm headphone jack included
3) Decent for video and audio editing
4) Not made for hardcore gamers or graphic editing
5) Battery is 1.3 hours backup
6) HD webcam included
7) Mouse trackpad is good and it has fingerprint reader on the left of trackpad
8) Wifi 6E (Removable adapter inside the laptop)
9) 256GB NVME SSD included. ( one additional slot for NVME ssd)
10) 12th gen intel i5 cpu very good. 12 core cpu.
11) 4 GB graphics memory NVIDIA with cuda cores.
12) 16 Gb ram included very fast
13) Backlight keyboard only white light
14) Drivers readily available online on intel and Acer websites
15) Supports bluetooth mics headphones all for online meetings even usb heaphones supported. But bluetooth mic should be of good quality.
16) Runs hot during gaming.
17) Medium weight laptop and a bit thick.
18) Aluminium frame. Does leak a bit of current on the top of laptop when you touch it. It can be solved with proper earthing wire.
19) Suggested to buy another keyboard and mouse so that you dont damage its keyboard inbuilt.
20) Supports windows 11 home. Windows 11 pro can be bought on microsoft store if you want encryption of drives.(Bitlocker)
21) 1080p resolution lcd screen.

I think there are better laptops out there in this price range. I only bought this laptop for wifi 6E and backlight keyboard. Better get a touch screen LED type for battery savings and dont pay for windows 11 pro. If possible get a DOS laptop and purchase windows 10 home.

For gaming i wont recommend, it only has 4gb ddr4 graphics memory which is too low in todays standards.

The bios does not have fan speed or voltage control options.

Booting speed is good. Boots under 5 seconds.

So first of all I wanna say I’m writing this review after a use of almost a month and this will be a long but so beneficial for everyone.

So far I’m happy with the product as I realised that this is not a top level gaming like Asus tuf but actually its far better than Asus Tuf Gaming or other gaming laptops in this price range because this purpose is actually for people who don’t do much of gaming and do other tasks, though even if you do so play whatever you want it will give you 60 fps in forza horizon 5 at 720p so the heaviest game is going smooth and so on for hours probably we can say its actually for gaming purpose with a look of non gaming laptops so some may find it fascinating and some may not because if you’re a student so more likely people will surely mock you if they see using gaming laptop even if you don’t do any gaming and study only but we know relatives,, let’s get back to topic so as per now its clear that performance is top notch and now it comes on video playback like what is the highest quality you can watch videos on YouTube so first of all to do that I would like to inform that you must first do some setups like turning on GPU and then doing other settings like always optimize for quality and performance and you also have to do it for Forza Horizon 5 if you wants 60fps in 720p otherwise if its turned off then you’ll get upset so must turn on GPU as its off by default so turn it on then enjoy so after turning on you are actually able to play 8K videos on YouTube without any lag so that’s such an amazing thing because people sometimes are confused regarding will it give you 4K quality or not and here it’s giving you 8K quality on YouTube but it is a thing to be noted like most of the content of YouTube is actually 1080p content especially all series and movies so obviously this 8K video streaming is good but not a reason for one should buy this so what’s the reason?? Absolutely the performance which is outstanding though that doesn’t mean we should ignore this 8K superiority as this shows the capability of this amazing tech and the graphic card RTX2050 have good fans so that’s also good for keeping it little cool so not much heating problem and build quality is amazing and due to being aluminium while plugged in you may feel some slight shocks which is like a vibration so don’t be worried at all its just ok as its back cover is of aluminium so don’t Worry of it as no big shocks it just feels like a vibration so don’t worry next thing is the battery backup after you turn it on to the performance mode then battery last upto almost 3 hours on slight usage if you do gaming you can see how fast it drains so don’t do gaming while its not plugged in so overall this is all good and it may look suspicious as why there ain’t any cons in this laptop so don’t worry here are CONS:

First of all and always note that this laptop is not for gaming if you do gaming then absolutely its not for you not at all

It doesn’t come with MS office so those who use ms office a lot so please stay away from this because you’ll have to pay extra money for MS office but the question does it worth it to purchase ms office? So the answer is depends upon how you wanna use like slight gaming, multimedia etc. Then ofcourse this is worth it and if not then no don’t go for it

No free features 😭 you gotta buy everything so man!! That can make it costly if you use Adobe, MS office, and any other paid subscription app because no matter what just pay!! So again does it worth to be pay so much after purchasing it so that depends on you because you know what you want so here in this case you have to check though it works best and overall performance is good but does it require all that thing well upto you!!

Perhaps for people who do other things especially study and believe this is actually for students because students do slight gaming and other things so for students nothing is better than this though profesinalist can also use because I can say its worth it as I’ve used because its very easy to use and everything so clean so just now upto you

I just hope this long review could help someone