Beautiful bright antiglare matte screen, awesome keyboard backlight & feel. Super powerful and boots fast(15-20 secs). In CinemaBench, I got a 75.08 on openGL and on Cpu stress test I got a score of 526. The build quality is very sturdy. a bit of a fingerprint magnet inside but feels super premium.

If you're looking for a mid-price laptop for school or basic use, this is a great pick. If you are wanting a laptop for editing photos/videos or great viewing angles, this is not the laptop for you.

Strong GPU and CPU, fast startup and updates, backlit keyboard, and great battery life; I haven't been able to measure the amount of hours yet, but at half brightness it has consistently lasted an entire day of typing papers, downloading files, and editing spreadsheets

Relatively small storage. 256GB is a lot for someone for school, but if you're editing videos or photos or installing a lot of games, you may need a bigger hard drive. On top of that, the screen is a nice size, but you can only look at it from exactly straight on for the screen to look correct; tilt...

One of the best SSD Laptops i have ever had. Incredibly fast load and boot times paired with good graphics card, decent screen size, great sound & mic quality, long battery life with half the time to charge to full.

While this has somewhat changed recently, Acer laptops have been historically known for their affordable price tags and overall solid value for the money, albeit with a few cut corners here and there, perfectly normal for budget devices.

The Acer Aspire 5 sits in Acer's ‘everyday computing' range and it's the epitome of the no-nonsense laptop. It's a little on the chunky side, not especially attractive to look at and, yet, it delivers the goods when it comes to performance and usability.

Good value; Great performance at this price point; Nice keyboard

Awful display; Chunky design

While it's thicker and heavier than we'd like and it suffers from an iffy display, the Optane memory-equipped Acer Aspire 5 delivers impressive quad-core performance for hundreds less than its ultraportable competitors.

Good value for the money. Boot time is great compared to my old Dell. Screen is a bit cheap and nasty but I sue mine with an external monitor so doesn't really matter to me.

With high-end laptops, you're getting an ever slimmer and lighter footprint, backed by a heavy pocket, while budget laptops are wired for performance over looks at rock-bottom prices. Then you…

Decent performance; Good build quality; Very reasonable price

Not as light as it competitors; Not the most vibrant screen

I chose an Acer model as I'd had one previously that served me extremely well for 10 years before purchasing this one. Setting up was easy, no issues at all. It's light, very fast and the battery lasts a good few days on medium use. Definitely would recommend

Bought this few months, great laptop for everyday use and has plenty of grunt, i think Intel optane memory make the difference for sure.