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 is a mixed bag of positives and negatives. On the one hand, it's plain and its display sub-par; on the other, this £600 laptop delivers fast performance and excellent battery life.

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

Awful display; Chunky design

Intel's tech helps the Aspire 5 keep up, but a poor display and battery life hold it back in the end.

Low price; Intel Optane speeds up the large-capacity hard drive; Good performance for a budget machine; Sturdy build quality

The screen is really bad; even for the price; Battery life is underwhelming; The keyboard isn't backlit

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.

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.

After a week's worth of use, no problems to report - I removed all the bloatware right away to help. I'm not a techie, so these comments are based on "regular folk" usage. I prefer big screens in laptops even though this makes them less portable aka not exactly lightweight.

Works well for office or general use but there are a couple of issues: -It doesn't sleep properly. Often it was on after sleep was selected -There isn't really any way to fix screen bleed -It doesn't explain when the graphics card kicks in (or if it is on all the time it is a battery waste)

So, upon purchase it worked like a dream. Epic render distance and low everything else worked at 60 fps on Fortnite. Took 5 minutes to set up. But one thing was wrong. We noticed that the backlit keyboard was missing. After searching we found out that it no longer comes with a backlit keyboard.