acer Aspire 7 Ryzen 5 Hexa Core 5500U – (16 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 11 Home/4 GB Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650) A715-42G Gaming Laptop

First things first, Its the only laptop with such balanced yet powerful configuration.
If you go with thin and light type, it can only be useful in normal uses and not for high end gaming but has great battery like 6+ hrs. And if u consider gaming laptops with H series processors, we can’t expect battery above 3-4 hrs even under light usage due to higher TDP. And thats where this laptop shines, you can play almost all games in this, plus when you just want to do normal work , it can lasts u for around 6 hrs.

Build : Average, doesnt feel very sturdy. Specifically Hinge – Slightly loose in my opinion. Like it only holds up till 45 – 135 degree angle , below that it just falls on its own.

Display : Good for day to day use and media. But it has yellowish tint out of the box. You need to calibrate it a little from display color calibration settings if you want.

Keyboard nd Trackpad : keyboard is backlight with single level white color. typing experiance is okiesh ( If you typed on lenovo thinkpad then compared to that , this is pretty average). Trackpad is good. No issues with that.

Battery : very good considering its a blend of Office laptop and gaming laptop. Around 5.5 – 6 hrs with normal use.

Camera : very average. But it will fulfill ur purpose.

Speaker : Garbage. They are of no use. Very low sound.

Performance : Extremely good. U can do anything in it without lag.

Upgradability : Ram is upgradable via extra slot. This is something most of the manufacturers purposefully dropping coz after 2-3 yrs , u will be needing more ram. No storage upgradability option though, but its fine in my opinion.

Con: Build quality could have been better. It wont sustain to major shocks.
No fingerprint.
Very low sound speakers.

Verdict : This is one of its kind laptop and I dont think other manufacturers will be launching such configuration in their laptop ( blend of productivity and gaming). Highly recomended for college students and Engineers.

Pros:-
•Awesome professional look despite of being a gaming laptop
•Sleek and minimalistic design
•Powerful processor but consumes less power as it is an U series processor (less TDP)
•Lightning fast boot time
•Awesome keybord feel and decent backlit (white)
•Good thermal management and open air vents and exhaust

Cons:-
•Build quality, this is a major issue for me as I was looking for more sturdier laptop (took a slight dent while my phone fell on it)
•Weight distribution could have been better
•No HDD slot provided
•No memory card reader and no options to change backlit brightness

*This review was done by me after one month of use mostly in \

This Laptop is excellent for the price.
Build Quality is OK. Hard plastic is used in this laptop. Not like HP laptops which uses cheap plastics.
Pros-
1. Battery life- you can easily get around 6 hrs of backup on normal use like browsing, coding, youtube, ms office work etc.
2. Performance- Performance is good, considering its a ‘U’ type processor which is battery efficient. I played Horizon zero dawn at low settings i got 60fps and on medium i got around 45-50 fps.
3. Heating- This model doesn’t heat that much. Again due to its U series processor. No overheating problem at all. Little bit of heat is normal while gaming.
Cons-
1. Speakers could have been a little more loud. It’s still OK until you are not using it in noisy place.
2. No extra slot for storage expansion. 512gb is not enough if u install multiple games.

Now,
Display- It has good viewing angles,
NO screen bleeding at all in my model.
Brightness is good and i mostly use it on half brightness when indoors. Can’t say about outdoors.
Only problem is that, it has a warmer tone out of the box, which can be set to cool in radaeon settings. But still i feel it has minor warm tone. (It’s not a deal breaking thing).

I’m writing this after a month of usage (gaming+editing+office+coding)
Pros :
1) Ryzen 5 5500u is way better than the older 3500h and you can actually feel the difference (my friend have 3500h variant).
2) 1660 gfx card under this price segment is a bang for buck. I had no problems playing AAA games with maxed graphics at 50+ fps. Older games like GTA 5, CSGO etc are smoother than ever. Even Minecraft with heavy texture packs runs smoothly.
3) Editing ofcourse you can edit efficiently as the hexa core CPU with 12 threads handle things way better than any laptop in sub 55k segment. I have exported 4k files from filmora and premier and as expected, it can render and save files with considerably less time.
4) Backlit keyboard is a plus point although I personally don’t think I need that because I rely on wireless mouse and keyboard but the fact that it is there makes a lot of sense.
5) 8GB RAM isn’t much but it’s way more than what average consumer could ask for. As it’s not a freakin desktop!
6) Ventilation is great and even the fans don’t make that much sound you can rarely hear them running.
Now let’s come to cons :
1) Considerably poor build quality and hinge. Plastic doesn’t feel sturdy at all so you might end up thinking twice before lifting it from one hand and that too from off center of gravity point. Hinge is mehhhh.
That’s all but if you consider the price, you might not find this a problem at all.

Fast as lightning
Ssd port is single
Ram port is double
8 gb in one slot, one slot empty.
Working fine with hperx 16 gb ddr4 2666mhz ram.( Warranty will be void if you open the laptop base panel)
Csgo runs fine.
Windows is pre installed, home edition.
Webcam is not good but I usually keep that taped up so no worries there.
Display is pretty good
All in all I will call this one the mid range king.