Buy this laptop (on sale) - Acer Nitro V (2023)

To anyone from LMG - that trick, where the editor changed the saturation to show the effectively poor color space (6:28), was a neat way of visualizing a statistic that is often hard to wrap your head around real-world impact. Sure, it's not a lab-quality demo, but "your colors might look like this" computes a lot better in my head than "it has x% of color space coverage". Please do more of that. Little touches like that make the videos so much better.

This is a really, REALLY good value if you use it as a low-end desktop replacement and use it with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It's similar to what I used to do. It's passable for occasional travel use, and has a good enough price-to-performance ratio WHEN ON SALE that it's a pretty good "beginner" laptop for someone who maybe doesn't really care about things like keyboard flex or bad speakers - and maybe they keep it plugged into a pair of speakers as well.

I bought an Acer Nitro 5 back in 2019--8th gen Intel, 1050 Ti, 8G RAM, 256GB SSD. First ever computer that was mine, beforehand I was using a 6 (8?) year old AIO PC that was dying. Got me started in my computer hobby.

The fact they played a bell sound when it hit Bell

I gotta say, the amount of great old days I'm having since Alex started hosting videos really skyrocketed

I recently got the Acer Nitro 16, which is this laptop, but better in every single way. Significantly better display at 1920x1200 165hz 99.8% SRGB Coverage if memory serves, better build, better keyboard, 90wh battery, waaaay better speakers, better camera and mic, Ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, still the same cringe stickers. So satisifed with it, fantastic laptop for the price

That's what I did with my Lenovo loq last year I got the 8 GB one with a 13th Gen I5 a 1tb SSD and a 3060 and got a 32 gig ram kit at a later date all in all I spent 800 bucks total on it and couldn't be happier with the product

I'm a fan of the Acer Nitro series. They have quietly been the low key best cheapie gaming laptops since about 2016 or so. Best bang for the buck at their price point especially if you go for a well equipped slightly older or refurbished model. Some corners are cut like not having a very rigid body and not the best viewing angles on the screen but overall they are one of the best deals in gaming not just gaming laptops.

I remember when my sister and I went to Best Buy to get work laptops and were looking for something in the $450 range and we saw Nitro 5's for about $600 with dedicated graphics cards and we decided to just do that and it was fantastic. Nitro 5's were and still are excellent intro level budget friendly PC gaming.

"there is no wiggle" proceed to wiggle the whole keyboard

I do like the fact that the laptop does have a numpad, i cant live without one. But i think that the absence of a numpad LED to indicate if its on or not should be a more talked about feature. laptops still have it but its only in very specific ones that are either really expensive and impractical. Or really cheap ones that dont have the performance needed

6:25 that "trick" right there was great to show why not to get a device with a low color range display if you don't really have to / if you can afford anything better, so thanks a lot

Im pointing this out as I own this laptop that the speakers are very good, the problem is out of the box the dtsx ultra makes the audio preset to shooter config. The speaker are actually very loud and above average for the price that it was launched at atleast in my country. The LOQ is almost the same price here for the 3050 6gb and except for the MUX switch and better display, nitro is more of a value for money lap here. But got to say the LOQ is a very fine laptop.

I think The LOQ from Lenovo is a better option for the overall improvement of the Performance. like having a mux switch and advanced Optimus, and for the budget option we can get the 3050 6gb vram variant for a lot cheaper if you don't want to game intensely. more solid build quality the keyboard is better and not so gaming looks. personally i have the intel 3050 variant and its always running quiet when i code or browsing with 20 chrome tabs open and while gaming the laptop is not getting really high temps and hover between 70-80 ish while running AAA games.

I daily drive a nitro 5 for school, I have a pc for gaming but this thing crushes 3D modeling. Honestly for a powerful laptop that's cheaper than some other thinbook trash, it's great priced and honestly one of the most repairable machines I've encountered. I also just have throttlestop for the noise just in case I'm not doing something intense.

tnx for giving perspective on the saturation.

when you have a laptop with a pretty bad screen like this the best you can do is play with the saturation gamma and other stuff to get a way better picture even if the color accuracy is still going to be bad

that note about the air exhaust is an acer thing, I had a spin 3 for school and it was the same story, though in fairness that was a 360 hinge so any rear exhaust would have interference sometimes

Speaking on the LOQ discount at the end. I just picked up the higher spec version at $999 a couple weeks back. Same i7 CPU as that nitro has but has the RTX4060 instead. Its also got a way more accurate screen and a much more solid keyboard (as to be expected from lenovo/IBM). Would recommend for anyone looking for a decent laptop to blow a grand on.

This space is very competitive, bought an omen 16 4050, 13420, 16 gb variant for 750 on sale(hp equivalent to the lenovo) and it's great. Only gripe is the single ssd slot, and 512 storage. But for 750$ its been a steller travel computer, when im not gonna cart around my pc.