Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, 15.6" Full HD IPS Display, 10th Gen Intel Core i3-10110U, 4GB DDR4, 128GB PCIe NVMe SSD, Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 802.11ax, Backlit KB, Windows 10 in S mode, A515-54-37U3,Black

I am a software developer who runs Linux Mint and cares a lot about battery life and portability. This machine does not disappoint. I love it! I would definitely recommend buying and installing more RAM, which is an upgrade I performed myself. You won't regret it. If you're an avid gamer, I'd recommend sacrificing battery life, spend $300-400 more and get something with better graphics. For the average person with a $500 budget, this laptop is amazing.Wow:- 8 hours of battery life (web browsing and doing day-to-day software development)- Great performance for the price point! The 10th generation i3 CPU is no joke! Whoa!Likes:- Nice, crisp display, especially for the price point- 1920x1080 display resolution -- a MUST for me. How does anyone live with less? :)- Backlit keyboard (also a MUST for me)- Linux Mint 19.3 works out of the box- Good build quality. The aluminum on the back of the display is a clutch move -- A smart design decision that makes this thing feel more expensive. Well done, Acer!- Connectivity options are simple and complete- Lightweight- Quiet -- except when you're gaming or REALLY taxing the CPU... it gets loud, but not unbearable. Other reviewers say it's too loud, but I can't complain at all.Meh:- Needs more RAM -- but this is not a big problem. A simple search on Amazon gets you 8 GB more RAM for under $40. Install is pretty easy; careful with the plastic.- Intel UHD Graphics 620 chip leaves more to be desired. Not recommended for avid gamers, but passable for everyone else. I play Minecraft, and it runs great at normal settings.- Trackpad - it's good, but it's not great- Charging plug seems to be rather vulnerable to damage if you aren't careful. Don't trip over a wire and pull this one out! It fits in there snugly, and pulling it out at an angle would probably be very bad.- Power / charge LEDs are located on the side out of PC, which I think is silly. Also no numlock / capslock LEDs.- Keyboard is soft but passable. Hmmm... that brings us to....Dislikes:- Keyboard layout - Boo. Most people won't care, but I don't like it. Acer tried to squeeze in a number pad, and it's just awkward and awful. The number pad keys are just too small to be practically useful (sigh). They also omitted little things like a "Home" key, "End" page, and "PgUp" / "PgDn", which are technically on the number pad but behave differently on Linux terminals. The up/down arrow keys are also weird and disproportional. I also dislike the power button being a key on the keyboard, but that's just personal preference. All that said, I've seen laptops with worse keyboard layouts, but this keyboard layout just kinda sucks. It's a crying shame. Oh! And one more thing! The F3 key is brightness down. F4 key is brightness up. The icons are confusing because at first glance it appears to be the other way around.Strong Dislikes:- NoneOverall:Great value for ~$450! Despite my rant on the poor keyboard layout, I'd buy it again.

First thing I did when I got this laptop is I put a 380GB SSD DRIVE in it and 16MB of memory. Cost me roughly $80 for both. This laptop is fast. I know there are faster laptops but I only have $480 in this one and it will do anything I want. I'm not a gamer but this laptop could game, I'm sure of it. I don't think there is anything out there that can compare to it as far as what it does for such a great price.

Ok. Day one was a little disappointed. First, out of the box this thing looks great!! Thin and light. Great case design. 11 screws to slip the bottom off. Came off easy. Verifying the main board set up. This is the Icore3 Intel with 4gb ram and 128gb drive. This board has one ram slot. Important when ordering hence no 2 slot ram configurations would make any sense. Crucial has $80 16gb ddr4 which will bring system to 20gb ram. Love the hard drive chassis is in box. This will definitely need an additional hard drive. Easy to do. So when I booted everything was great. Impressive honestly for the price. Really impressed. So I ran the windows update. Everything goes good. The one major issue is the wireless network adapter continues to drop. Rebooted several times. At some points it would stay on a bit, but it dropped again. So I was disappointed, I know the network is solid. This was only 2 things. Bad hardware or outdated driver. After removing network hardware in device I hooked up to either cable. Ran another windows update. This update provided latest driver for intel wireless adapter. That was 2 hours of wasted time. So. Aside from this having outdated driver this thing is a pretty nice for the price.

If this continues to operate as it has I am 1 happy camper. Love the backlit keyboard, my desk is in a dark corner. It is plenty fast enough for me. Not a gamer just regular web surfing and Youtube videos and it is excellent for that. The screen is perfect. Good viewing from any angle. I haven't found any cons yet. I saw in the reviews people were unhappy with fan noise and I guess those are the can't please people because this fan is not too loud. I would recommend this to anyone wanting a good web surfing computer on a budget. I thought I would need more RAM but so far I haven't experienced any lag at all. Acer hit it out of the park again.

works wonderful love it

Its sound hardly worked, in and out, etc. It crashed regularly and dropped Internet once an hour. Sent it in to Acer and they removed my hard drive AND ALL MY FILES. Spent two months during COVID trying to get them all back. Told Acer uses cheap parts. Stores, etc., don't like them. I junked mine. Cost me $400 plus. I ended up buying a new HP for $700.

I bought a Toshiba a year ago that wasn’t cutting it. Pretty much the same price and this one is lighter, faster, clearer. Very pleased so far with the overall quality of this computer