acerNitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 Gaming Laptop | Intel Core i5-12500H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU | 15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB Gen 4 SSD | Killer Wi-Fi 6 | Backlit Keyboard

Amazing runs pretty much every game smoothly. My girlfriend loves it and it’s very portable. The screen display is gorgeous and game graphics look GREAT. The battery life does drain a bit fast but that’s pretty much every laptop that gets used for gaming. She generally plays the sims but she has hundreds of mods and it runs great! I would recommend to anyone needing a top notch laptop.

Purchased for my son’s 13th birthday. The Acer Nitro V gaming laptop has exceeded his expectations! The graphics are impressive, and games run smoothly even on higher settings. The cooling system works well and keeps the laptop from overheating, even during longer sessions. The display is bright and clear, and the 144Hz refresh rate makes gameplay super smooth. The build is sturdy and has a sleek, gamer-friendly design. Battery life isn’t the longest, but that’s expected for a gaming laptop. For this price point, it’s an excellent choice for gamers who want solid performance without breaking the bank. Highly recommend!

The pictures show it after it was plugged in and started. I have a video of the unboxing and there was no damage to the laptop. I haven’t used it much (especially not an intensive amount). So far its quick to load. Which my previous laptop took forever to load so it is a nice change. The keys are nice and the mousepad is great. Connected to the wifi dang quick and finished setting up quickly too. I was looking for something to be used both as a work laptop as well as a for fun laptop. While I can’t say anything about the gaming aspect but given how user friendly it is. I can most certainly say its a good laptop for working. The fan is rather quiet. I can’t say whether or not its a good value for the money as I haven’t had it for a long time nor do I have anything to really compare it to (asides my horrible first laptop). That being said as of day one everything is golden. I’ll update with any new information or happenings and for now I won’t recommend it as I’ve not used it enough. But with time that could change.Day 3: It downloaded everything quickly. Doesn’t overheat even after a long bit of use (granted again not intensive). All in all it’s continued to be good so far.Few months later: Everything is working great it runs smooth even though I've been playing some kinda intensive games. Honestly I 100% recommend this if you want to do work or game on the go or even at home. It's cheaper than a PC and functions perfectly well.

What can I say? For the price, you're getting a machine that can play modern AAA games at medium/low settings with ~60fps (tested Horizon Zero Dawn so far, steady 60 at low settings). Can easily run older games at high settings/high frames. Absolute beast for emulation on the go, only outclassed by the likes of the steam deck and rog ally in terms of portability.The specs are decent for an entry level budget laptop. The 4050 is an entry level gpu (especially for a laptop gpu), and so is the i5, but don't let that dissuade you, this laptop is plenty powerful for the price. The perk of having a 40 series gpu of course is dlss 3.0 and frame gen. The main issue of course is the storage and ram. Both easy upgrades. The motherboard supports two nvme drives (one being gen 4 and the other gen 3) and two ram slots. The first thing I did was upgrade my storage and ram (1tb gen 3 ssd and 32 gbs of ram, an extra ~150) which is necessary if you plan on playing modern games.Overall, a great little entry level machine that you will not be disappointed with. Definitely try to get on sale.EDIT: GPU crapped out on me not even a couple months later after purchase. Was experiencing blue screens constantly until one day the laptop started to refuse to recognize the gpu. Upon further research, this is a very common issue with this series of laptops from Acer. The RMA process is a pain, and they offer no local dropoff outside of their repair center in Texas. Hit or miss if you'll get a working product or a detective one, buyers beware.EDIT 2: They would not repair my laptop because of "water damage" (common term by first party entities, those who do not support right to repair - easy to dismiss in their TOA and other agreements you supply as a consumer). If you google this laptop, you'll see most failures are the GPU, and the customer cannot get it RMA'd because of "water damage" or other failures. The fact is these are mainly mainboard issues as the quality and production on these PCBs are terrible. I was sent a picture of the copper heatsink with oxidization as my reason for no repair. The failure rate of vital parts in this product is not worth the price tag. If you want an actual gaming laptop, please spend the money for vetted higher brand product.Last edit: Get an HP victus on sale. Dropped this thing three times and am finishing up Kingdom Come deliverance 2 with close to 144 frames with a 4070 laptop GPU and an AMD ryzen 7 for ~ 900 on sale from bestbuy.