Your Moderate Gaming Machine

Your Moderate Gaming Machine
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The Acer Aspire Nitro Broadwell refresh is built to rewrite the very concept of gaming laptops. While gaming laptops are usually known to be large, bulky, heavy, and basically a mockery of what it means to be a laptop, the fact that you can fold and carry them makes them in some way laptops and they are eventually sold as such. Well, Acer decided to have none of that, so it is determined to sell performance laptops with sizes well within what common sense will ask of portable computers.
Holding quite some powerful hardware in a relatively slim, 24mm casing, the Acer even manages to deceive the eye with the unit’s underside tapering off the sides. Made of black and matte plastic, the base unit’s upper part has a light rubber coating with battery like Acer Aspire 1680 Battery, Acer Aspire 1410 Battery, Acer TravelMate 4500 Battery, Acer LCBTP03003 Battery, Acer Aspire 1300 Battery, Acer BTP-APJ1 Battery, Acer BTP-AQJ1 Battery, Acer BTP-ARJ1 Battery, Acer BATCL32 battery, Acer BATCL32L battery, Acer Extensa 4620 battery, Acer Aspire One D150 battery, which feels satisfying to the touch.
Although lacking a maintenance latch which would keep the laptop together during transportation, the handling characteristics of the machine are quite pleasing. However, if the Nitro is placed vertically, with the hinge down, the laptop will tend to stay slightly open.
The finish quality is fairly solid, and although it weighs 2.2 kg, it feels much lighter thanks to its tight build and slim shape.
The fan opening for cooling is at the back of the laptop and the speakers can be found beneath the device on the left and right side of the laptop. The downside of this feature is that sound will be slightly muffled, depending on what the unit stands on.
The Acer Aspire Nitro has a limited number of interfaces. It boasts three USB 3.0 ports and one HDMI port for external input on the right side of the machine. In front there’s a card reader, and one Kensington lock nearby the USB ports on the right. Although it’s lacking VGA or DisplayPort outputs, existing ports are well placed and there won’t be any clutter with all sorts of cables on either side of the wrist rest.
Equipped with an Atheros AR5BWB222 Wi-Fi, the device allows Wi-Fi within the 802.11 b/g/n standards, and the connection stays stable for around 13 meters around the router, but try not to put walls between you the Wi-Fi. For an Ethernet connection Acer offers a Gigabit LOL! Ethernet chip from Realtek's RTL8168/8111 family. The Ethernet port has a nice spring-based cover that you have to open in order to plug the Ethernet cable, and every time it’s left unused, the port remains covered and safe, blocking foreign objects from entering the plug.
The laptop comes with a Bluetooth 4.0 module as well, and obviously a webcam, but don’t expect crystal clear images from the Aspire.
The Nitro enjoys a backlight chiclet keyboard, which includes a num pad as well. The keyboard backlight uses red LEDs, and it suits the machine just fine. It doesn’t have any RGB lighting, but you can see the keys clearly in the dark. The keyboard is very reminiscent of the typical Apple keyboard, working nicely with short finger strokes and it feels very smooth and quiet.
The touchpad is basically a multi-touch ClickPad that is meant to replace the mouse. The pad has a large surface of 10.6 x 7.8 cm (~4.17 x 3 inches) and is easy to track the mouse with your finger. However, the touchpad lacks precision and it skips occasionally, so it’s best not to rely on it in case you want precision. The right click didn’t work very well on our tester unfortunately, but we believe this is not the case on every model out there.