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It’s big and heavy, with so-so battery life and a fairly dim screen, but if you’re shopping for a gaming laptop that handle AAA titles without breaking the bank, the $750 Coffee Lake-powered Acer ...

When the term gaming laptop comes to mind, most often an expensive price point follows close behind. Our Acer Nitro 5 review takes a look at an affordable and capable entry-level gaming laptop with ...

I tested battery life using a model with AMD Ryzen 5 2500U processor (CPU) and AMD Radeon RX 560X graphics card (GPU). Compared to the Intel Core i5 models that come with NVIDIA GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti ...

Today, Acer is launching a new pair of Nitro 5 laptops that can be specced to include AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 series mobile chips. Users have the choice of either a 15.6-inch, or 17.3-inch model, both of ...

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Acer’s Nitro 5 gaming laptop lineup has become more ...

Acer equipped its Nitro 5 gaming notebooks with a relatively modest feature set compared with other gaming laptops, but that doesn't stop them from being solid values overall. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Acer announced the new Nitro 5 gaming laptop at CES 2021. The laptop runs on a Ryzen 9 5900 HX CPU or an 11th Gen Intel Core H-35 series processor. The Ryzen version will be available with up to an ...

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