If you're fixated on families of premium laptops laden with fancy features, but finding them far out of your range, meet the Acer Aspire 5: the frugal, old-school uncle of machines. It's a ...

With its affordable price, decent performance, and robust build, the Acer Aspire 5 is a great budget option for most people. Are you in the market for Windows laptop? Don’t want to spend more than ...

A laptop doesn't have to be good-looking to be a good choice, but that is the trap that many people fall into when purchasing their laptop upgrade. A stylish laptop is welcome, sure, and that's why ...

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Starting off with the most holistic benchmark, the PC Mark 10, we can see that the Acer Aspire 5 gives us a score of around 5148, along with a gaming score of 5527, which is pretty decent in its ...

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While it has nice specs, the Acer Aspire 5 15-inch shows some cut corners for its $600 price tag. A small battery, a mediocre keyboard, and the lack of premium touches make it feel less-than-modern.

The Acer Aspire 5, in many aspects, stands as a testament to what a mid-range laptop can offer. Its build quality, I/O support, and performance metrics, especially with the Intel 13th Gen Core ...

There's a lot to like about the Acer Aspire 5 (starts at $399, $629 as tested). You get a 15.6-inch low-cost desktop-replacement laptop with a peppy Intel Core i5 processor, a generous 12GB of memory, ...

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