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Acer Nitro 5: We unbox a budget gaming laptop for the rest of us |
May 22, 2018
When we unboxed the Acer Nitro 5 we knew not to expect RGB-lit packaging or a fancy carrying case. This is a budget gaming laptop, and it squeezes every penny of value out of its $750 price. Start with the CPU: It's an Intel 8th-gen Core i5-8300H, a Coffee Lake CPU with 4 cores and a new bonus: Hyper Threading, which takes advantage of unused CPU resources to boost performance. The CPU comes with 8GB of RAM, and there's another 4GB of memory with the Nvidie GeForce GTX 1050 discrete GPU. The 1TB SATA HDD is a tough call: Lots of capacity, far less speed than you'd get from an SSD. If you have the extra cash you can pony up for its $850 sibling, which comes with a 256GB SSD and has the space to add another drive. To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3274560/laptop-computers/acer-nitro-5-we-unbox-a-budget-gaming-laptop-for-the-rest-of-us.html#tk.rss_all
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