Acer Aspire 5 A517-53G 17.3 Inch Laptop - (Intel Core i7-1260P, 16GB, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050, Full HD Display, Windows 11, Iron)

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Make light work of your daily tasks, with a full line-up of features to elevate your day-to-day—like TwinAir Cooling1, a 1080p webcam, an air inlet keyboard, and aluminum cover in multiple vibrant colors1

Regardless of that, let’s focus on the laptop in hand for today – the Acer Aspire 5 (A517-53G). As you can imagine, the “G” in its name means that it has a dedicated graphics card. This equals either the NVIDIA GeForce MX550 or the RTX 2050. Step up your game with an Aspire 5 equipped with an NVIDIA® GeForce RTX® dedicated GPU, which is the most advanced platform for ray tracing and AI technologies that are revolutionizing the ways we play and create. 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. The same can be said about the graphics performance, which is fantastic. The 30W TGP was no problem at all, with the maximum temperature we monitored at the end being 65°C. Gaming comfort What we are most excited about is comparing this machine with its predecessor. The rumor says that 2022’s Aspire 5 has greatly improved cooling, so let’s not waste any more time, and get right into the action.

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With that said, the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2022) is even lighter at 2.04 kg. What makes the Aspire 5 superior is the presence of a dedicated GPU. Our configuration is equipped with the MX550, which was no match for the brand-new cooling solution. Acer added one more heat pipe, and one more fan, which helps the device completely obliterate its predecessor when it comes to cooling capacity. 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. 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. The slim 17.95mm laptop has a professional appearance with its sandblasted aluminum cover and multiple color options1 to fit your own sense of style.

Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode. 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.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.

For both performance and design, the Aspire 5 is surpassed by the Honor MagicBook 14 and Huawei MateBook D 14, which offer far sleeker looks, better typing experiences and quieter fans. 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. Nevertheless, the best thing we have seen is that you have a wide variety of choices, for pretty much every budget. And you can almost never go wrong. On the other hand, we might be seeing the last days of 17-inch computers. The market was flooded with 16-inch devices, while 18-inch monsters are just around the corner, as we have seen at CES 2023. 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.

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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. 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).

Last year, the Aspire 5 (A517-52G) was one of the good 17-inch laptops on the market. However, this year, Acer raised the bar with the inclusion of Thunderbolt 4, two RAM SODIMM slots, and providing one more M.2 PCIe x4 slot for storage.Acer Aspire 5 (A517-53G)’s display doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment. This makes it comfortable for long working periods, without being harmful to your eyes in this aspect.