The Acer Aspire certainly doesn’t redeem its design shortcomings when it comes to audio. The speakers are tinny and offer next to no bass, listening to music on this laptop was frankly unpleasant and, for videos, it wasn’t much better. Still, we’ve included other color spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by movie studios, as well as the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, however, is still a thing of the future and it’s difficult for today’s displays to cover that well. We’ve also included the so-called Michael Pointer gamut, or Pointer’s gamut, which represents the colors that naturally occur around us every day.

The Aspire’s integrated Iris Xe graphics won’t win any awards either, with 3DMark scores that generally leave it in the ‘less than 20fps’ category. But, to be fair, 3DMark does use very high graphics settings, so if you don’t mind turning the graphics quality down a little you might even be able to get a bit of casual gaming done every now and then. Our battery benchmark testing got just shy of ten hours, so you wouldn’t need to work about charging during a workday let along a journey to a coffee shop. Our real-world experience bore this out too, if a tad closer to shy of nine hours rather than the higher ten. Hey, Acer has done a great job with the chassis of their new laptop. It is about 400 grams lighter than its predecessor while retaining the same 19.9mm profile. The larger size of the Aspire 5 at least allows for more ports and a webcam up top, rather than the awkward nose-cam on Honor and Huawei’s devices. However, I’d much rather grab a dongle and get the MagicBook. If the webcam problem really gets your goat then I still prefer another device to Acer’s laptop; the Avita Liber offers design and performance closer to the Aspire 5 but still with a more modern look overall. Even so, that’s not too bad for a low-cost laptop such as this, and if you’re not using wi-fi then the Aspire 5 should give you a full day’s work when you’re on the move.This fashionable laptop hides a powerful processor and graphics which will help users get the most of the screen its large screen-to-body ratio. As you'd expect from a laptop of this caliber it also includes fast Wi-Fi and plenty of storage and memory. Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t describe it as ugly, but it’s far from a laptop you’d ever showcase for its looks. A basic and, mostly, plastic design along with a chunky bezel, which Acer ambitiously describes as “narrow”, puts this laptop’s design far behind machines from Honor, Huawei and Asus. Acer Aspire 5 (A517-53G) is equipped with a Full HD IPS screen, model number BOE NV173FHM-N49 (BOE084E). Its diagonal is 17.3″ (43.94 cm), and the resolution – 1920 х 1080. Additionally, the screen ratio is 16:9, the pixel density – 127 ppi, and their pitch – 0.1995 x 0.1995 mm. The screen can be considered Retina when viewed from at least 69 cm (from this distance, the average human eye can’t see the individual pixels).

Our testing showed the Aspire 5 score well in the processor stakes against rivals. However, I’d look to the PC Mark 10 holistic score as a more accurate representation of the overall experience. The Aspire often experienced slow down even when venturing above six tabs in Chrome. One big change was also the loss of 400 grams from the overall weight of the product. This made the machine stop the scales at 2.20 kilos – a point, previously reserved for 15-inch devices. Maximize your multitasking and productivity with the latest 13th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors1 for accelerated performance. And with onboard LPDDR5 memory and M.2 SSD storage—the Aspire 5 is made to do it allSound is of importance when communicating and listening. This laptop has been designed and certified to work with Cortana. For enhanced sound quality it also comes with Acer True Harmony. The lid is still made out of aluminum, while the base is plastic. Well, we got some flex from both the lid, and the base, but the situation was slightly better with the lid. Much like the plethora of ports you get on this laptop, the size of the Aspire 5 also affords good battery life.

The maximum measured brightness is 287 nits (cd/m2) in the middle of the screen and 266 nits (cd/m2) average across the surface with a maximum deviation of 13%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen and at maximum brightness is 6830K (average) – slightly colder than the 6500K optimum for sRGB.See more and do more with a 16:10 aspect ratio and narrow bezel—choose 14”, 15” or 17” 1080p IPS displays, or step it up with 1440p QHD—all equipped with Acer’s suite of visual technologies for dynamic color and viewing comfort. If 17-inch laptops are your vibe, you are at the right place. We have recently had a run of large notebooks, and we ran it through the LaptopMedia treatment of tests. Some of the results were expected, while others were impressive. USB Type-C port:USB 3.2 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps), DisplayPort over USB-C, Thunderbolt 4, USB charging 5 V; 3 A, DC-in port 20 V; 65 W Through the use of USB-C™ users get superfast data transfer over SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps. It also includes a total of four USBs: one USB 2.0 port and an HDMI 2.0 port and two SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps Type A ports – one of which can be used for offline charging.

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

An affordable laptop that doesn’t feel budget

This Chromebook uses an OceanGlass™ touchpad made entirely out of ocean-bound plastic. This environmentally-friendly material gives you a sleek, glass-like tactile texture as your fingers scroll across the touchpad. The Aspire 5 is far from a powerhouse and, unfortunately, struggles to even be a reasonable performer for much lower demand productivity tasking. Installing our Health-Guard profile not only eliminates PWM but also reduces the harmful Blue Light emissions while keeping the colors of the screen perceptually accurate. If you’re not familiar with the Blue light, the TL;DR version is – emissions that negatively affect your eyes, skin, and your whole body. You can find more information about that in our dedicated article on Blue Light. Gloss level measurement