Acer Nitro 5 Spin Review: A Gaming Laptop That's Not for Gaming

We all know gaming laptops are not a match for gaming PCs, simply then again, portability is a major factor why people opt for the sometime ane. Additionally, a gaming system is a beast and can handle simply nearly everything you lot throw at it. Heck, I personally ain a gaming laptop which works well for all my part and gaming needs. Just what if you lot added the cistron of convertibility to it every bit well? Wouldn't that be the perfect device? Well, that is what Acer has tried to achieve with the Acer Nitro 5 Spin.

The convertible laptop is powered past the latest eighth-gen Intel processors and packs in a dedicated GPU for gaming capabilities. But does the laptop hold true to its worth? Has Acer created a product that's capable of doing everything, and so some? Permit's find out, equally we take an in-depth expect at the Acer Nitro 5 Spin:

Acer Nitro 5 Spin Specs

Before we get started with the actual review, allow us offset get the specs out of the mode. The Acer Nitro 5 Spin packs in some amazing hardware including the likes of the latest 8th-gen Intel i5 or i7 processor, coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM. Nosotros had the i7 variant of the device, which as well comes with 256GB SSD and 1TB of HDD storage. Because it'due south a gaming laptop, a dedicated GPU is a must, and Acer has provided the Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU on board. Beneath is the detailed list of the hardware powering the Acer Nitro 5 Spin:

Dimensions	381.50 mm 10 258.x mm x 17.90 mm
Processor	Intel® Core™ i5-8250U 1.6GHz / Intel® Cadre™ i7-8550U
Memory	8GB DDR4
Storage	1TB HDD + 256GB SSD
Brandish	15.6" Full HD (1920x1080) multi-touch with IPS Engineering science
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 4GB GDDR5
WiFi	802.11ac wireless LAN
Ports	2x USB iii.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x USB Blazon-C, HDMI Output
Battery	four-prison cell 3320 mAh Li-ion
Adapter	90W
Weight	2.2 Kg
Operating Organisation	Windows 10 Home

At present that nosotros've got that out of the way, let us get into the actual review of the device.

Blueprint and Build Quality

We start off with the design of the Acer Nitro 5 Spin. Similar to most gaming laptops available in the market, the Acer Nitro 5 Spin follows the trend of red-tone coupled with black layers all effectually. Only unlike the rest of the competitors out at that place, the results are much more subtle and slap-up. The Acer Nitro 5 Spin is one of the virtually beautiful looking laptops out there. It is not the flashy kind, but information technology does go the viewer's attention. The sleek frame with metallic reddish end looks exquisite, and really compliments the gamer's passion.

The Acer Nitro 5 Spin is, afterward all, a convertible laptop, and so the factor of portability is patently going to be given a lot of importance. Using the laptop I can say that Acer has actually nailed it in that sector. The laptop is super portable, particularly once you lot consider the fact that it has all that hefty hardware on-board. The laptop is made of pure aluminum, and the matte end on superlative of it does give an overall premium feel. The brushed metal finish on the lid is super awesome to look at, though do note that it is a fingerprint magnet.

All in all, the overall design of the Acer Nitro 5 Spin is super soothing. Its neat, and despite existence super unproblematic, feels fresh. It appeals to users of all kinds – the gamer, the business user, and the casual user. Sure, there are slimmer and ultra-portable laptops out there in the marketplace, the Hp Spectre, and the Lenovo Yoga to name some, but they don't pack in the serious firepower that this laptop does.

Connectivity

The Acer Nitro 5 Spin comes equipped with almost every port you could ask for, so there were slightly any complaints here.

The left side of the laptop has the DC charging port, followed past the HDMI port, USB Blazon-C port with display support, and two USB 3.0 ports.

On the right side, nosotros take the Kensington lock, followed by the ability button, one USB two.0 port, SD card slot, 3.5mm audio jack, and the volume rockers.

Additionally, there are antenna bands on the laptop'due south lid also, which are called the "ExoAmp Antenna". According to Acer, the WiFi on the laptop makes utilise of MU-MIMO (Multi-User Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) technology, that offers faster wireless speeds and tin handle more than wireless devices at once. Personally, I could notice bully wireless signals throughout, even when the WiFi router was at a noticeable distance from my system.

All things considered, Acer has covered almost all that you could have asked for in a tardily 2017 laptop. However, as a personal notation, I would accept preferred if Acer ditched the DC charging port and added another USB Type-C port with Thunderbolt 3 for charging the laptop as well. Nonetheless, it'southward a mere suggestion rather than a complaint, considering the laptop scored actually well in the connectivity department.

Display

The display on this laptop is a bag of mixed feelings. The Acer Nitro 5 Spin comes with a 15.half-dozen-inch Full HD (1920×1080) display, coupled with touch back up. As you'd expect, the panel has a glossy end to it for better-looking colors. However, that also means that this laptop is not suitable for outdoor usage.

Now, coming to the colour gamut and stuff, the NTSC colour coverage is merely 48%. That is non, by any ways, impressive, but the real-life usage was still pleasant in almost cases. Pictures, movies, and a bunch of games that I played on the device looked highly-seasoned, with the colour reproduction mostly being accurate.

The biggest outcome that I had with this console was that the brightness is not evenly distributed. The IPS LCD panel produces maximum effulgence at the acme levels, and and so slowly drops down in one case you measure the lower half of the screen. The uneven lighting is non noticeable in normal usage but was quite evident while viewing images and videos that have an overall dark tone. For instance, I was able to experience this issues while rampage-watching episodes of Gotham or trying out Resident Evil vii.

The touchscreen experience of the display was more than satisfactory. The laptop features a multi-affect brandish, and I faced no bug in using the screen with my hands. Even while using the laptop in normal mode, I enjoy the ability to pinch-and-zoom into specific portions of the screen.

Audio

Acer states that the Nitro 5 Spin is powered past Dolby Audio speakers, with a speaker grill in the front end face of the device. The sound emitted from these speakers was loud for sure but lacked the depth that I was expecting. The levels are a bit jumbled up and I had to go through the bundled Dolby Atmos app for customizing the audio.

The speakers remain front-facing no affair which style you apply the laptop in, which is smashing. Too, the volume rockers on the side are a dainty addition, though they experience quite fragile and flimsy. The amplifier that is arranged with the laptop surely does assist while watching movies and playing games, just so again, I would personally advice tweaking the EQ levels for optimum sound.

Keyboard

The keyboard on the Acer Nitro 5 Spin is a delight to use. The island-mode keyboard has only the right level of key travel, feels great, and is keen for typing. In fact, this review is likewise written on the same laptop. There is a red backlight underneath the keys equally well, which is great for when working in the dark.

That being said, there are certain issues with the keyboard. I personally am not a fan of the compressed upwardly and down arrows, and that was something I disliked. Another major issue for me was the backlight lighting. For some reason, Acer that it was dainty to have them turned off automatically afterward xxx seconds of beingness left idle. I can understand that it was a move taken for bombardment saving, just then again, it would have been better if the company would have left it at the user's discretion.

Touchpad

In my feel with Acer'southward laptops, the touchpad has often been a hit and miss. All the same, with the Nitro 5 Spin, the visitor has certainly nailed it. The touchpad is one of the all-time I've used in recent times and gives a pleasant experience through and through. The touchpad makes use of the Windows Precision drivers, and all the gestures work really well. At that place is decent structure to the touchpad, and multi-finger back up is also there.

Additionally, at that place is a fingerprint sensor in the top-left corner of the touchpad, that makes use of the Windows Hello feature. Personally, I felt it was a nice addition, simply would have been better had the sensor had some good accurateness. The sensor is super-fast at unlocking the device, simply just when it'southward working. There were numerous cases when the fingerprint sensor simply failed to recognize my fingers, and I had to resort to the skilful sometime PIN.

Convertible Modes

The Acer Nitro 5 Spin is a convertible laptop, so basically you tin use it in the following modes – Notebook Fashion, Stand Mode, Tent Mode, and Tablet Mode. Thanks to Windows 10's embedded Tablet Way support, the laptop is able to detect when the orientation has been changed and switches automatically between tablet style and desktop mode.

In my experience of the device, the laptop worked fairly well in all the modes. The keyboard and touchpad are great like I said to a higher place, the touchscreen sure held its basis while using the tablet mode of the device. Acer claims that the device weighs around two.2 kgs, which is reasonably heavy for an ultrabook. However, in my usage, I felt that the weight distribution was pretty well, which allowed me to employ the device easily in whatever manner I liked. Operating a 15.half dozen-inch tablet is obviously a tough job, just should work very well if you're a designer and are looking for cheaper alternative to the Surface Volume and don't heed the weight.

Acer's Arranged Software/Bloatware

As with every desktop OEM out there, Acer produces its own share of software for its products. If yous're expecting a positive argument hither, I am certainly going to exist judging you, for I've never seen an OEM send software that'southward really useful. Information technology's is always bloatware, and the story stays the same in Acer's case.

The list of apps bundled by Acer is a big one, comprising of software such as Acer Care Center, Acer Collection, Acer Configuration Manager, Acer Quick Access, and a few more. In all honesty, the major portion of my interaction with these software was closing the annoying pop-up notifications. The Acer Quick Access was the merely app that I used, and that too for simply turning off the always-on USB port. For me, Acer's software is simply bloatware and nothing else.

Thermals

Now, when you lot're working with an ultrabook/two-in-1 convertible AND a gaming laptop, all combined into one, the internal designing is something that has to exist given proper attention. Furthermore, considering the fact that the Nitro 5 Spin is powered by the GTX 1050 which does not feature a Max-Q design, I was really interested in knowing how exactly has Acer laid out the compages within this automobile. If I had to draw my experience in i word, I would say that I was genuinely disappointed.

The laptop is piece of cake to open up upward, so x points to Acer for that. Merely and then y'all see the thermal layout of the laptop, and you suddenly see what a blunder Acer has made. As you can see from the epitome above, the 2 fans are connected together to chained heat sinks that are linked to both the CPU and the GPU. Let me to translate the effects of all that. Basically, both the fans are equipped to work with the GPU and CPU together, resulting in a considerably bad dissipation of oestrus. And just like I suspected, that was the end issue. In my usage of the laptop, the fans would just start running on the slightest of the load on the organization. I've had instances where even opening Microsoft Border (don't judge me) would besides bring the fans in action. And boy are they loud!

Oh, and what'south worse is the fact that they are pretty useless. The motherboard was almost always at a whopping 83-degree Celsius, which is blazing hot. I mentioned above how the keyboard was a pleasure to type on, correct? Still, try typing when the motherboard is called-for your fingers and y'all'll realize that this laptop seriously needs to cool downwards. The GTX 1050 gets considerably hot while gaming, reaching temperatures of upward to 85-degrees, and the fans seem to be helpless at that point. Or do they?

I could game for hours, and the temperatures would stay constant at fourscore-degrees. This can simply mean ane affair – Throttling! Yes, due to the seriously bad thermal design of the laptop, there is extreme throttling in both the GPU and CPU, which affects the overall functioning of the laptop tremendously, something which I'll be discussing in the sections that follow.

Functioning

Now, allow me to address a few things before I discuss the bodily performance of the device. The Acer Nitro 5 Spin is powered by the 8th-gen Intel chipsets, but the "U" variants. The device I was testing sports the i7-8550U CPU which is running at 1.80GHz. These chipsets are the mobile variants of Intel'south processors, featuring lower clocked speeds, and evidently lower performance rates. Now that we've cleared that, permit us get to the actual world functioning of the laptop.

The Acer Nitro 5 Spin fairs pretty well when it comes to treatment normal tasks such as spider web browsing, watching a picture, working with office documents and more than. Which basically combines the core of my work usage, for which the Nitro 5 Spin was pretty practiced. Just once you move on to heavier tasks such as Photoshop or After Effects, the laptop just gives upward. The noisy fans kick in, the laptop stutters with handling heavy operations, and there's noticeable lag in the operations.

Some other major issue that I faced in my feel with the Nitro 5 Spin was that there were many BSODs (Blueish Screen Of Decease) while pushing the laptop to heavy tasks while sticking with the Intel GPU. For case, if you try using Photoshop using the Intel 630 Graphics, the laptop would stutter, stutter, and then crash. I had to manually switch to the 1050 GPU for getting optimal functioning.

Gaming Performance

Finally, nosotros get to the gaming functioning, the section that matters to most of the readers here. Well, if you desire the TL;DR version of information technology, merely the championship of this review should be enough for you. Now, permit's dig into the details of the gaming operation, shall we?

To kickoff off, the GTX 1050 is a very decent GPU, which is capable of running AAA titles at Medium/High settings. Notwithstanding, do continue in listen that I've used the word "capable". The "U" series processors from Intel are in no mode targetted for the gaming audience, and that shows. The CPU is undoubtedly the bottleneck here, limiting the GTX 1050'due south operation by a major margin.

I tried playing a couple of games on the Nitro 5 Spin, including heavy titles such Lookout Dogs two, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3, PUBG, and Battlefield 1. I personally prefer gaming functioning to benchmarks, the operation was downright crappy. On PUBG and Battleground 1, even while using low presets, the maximum FPS I could touch was 58. Yes, not even 60 fps on very depression settings on a organisation having a GTX 1050! Don't even get me started on purely graphics intensive games, for both the Witcher 3 and Tomb Raider failed to cross the 40 FPS mark. Titles such equally Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Rocket League fared better, touching the 100 FPS mark, merely then once more, those are eSports Titles, where a 120 FPS mark is a bare minimum requirement.

Coupling a "U" serial processor with a GTX 1050 is a major mismatch, which leads me to think what in the world was Acer thinking!? I've used the Acer Helios 300, which has the 7th-gen Intel HQ processors, and the gaming performance on it is delightful. Heck, my three-year old Lenovo Y50-lxx with a 4th-gen i7 processor coupled with a GTX 860M performs way better than the Nitro 5 Spin. Oh, if you remember that the hardware mismatch was the only let downwards, yous're wrong. There's more to the story.

Pairing the U serial processor with the GTX 1050 and expecting to attain superb gaming results is like placing a Ferrari engine within a Toyota motorcar and expecting information technology to run at the same speeds. Information technology's just wrong!!

If you lot recollect, I previously commented on the ridiculous thermal pattern of the laptop, which results in the system's throttling. Frame rates dropped to 13 while playing PUBG for over 15 minutes, and CS:Go rested on the 60 FPS mark later 15-20 minutes. All while the keyboard's and the speaker grill'south temperatures were soaring high. Using a cooling pad is no longer a recommendation, but a necessity in this example. But despite the added fans, all I could manage was a stable thirty FPS mark on most graphics enervating games.

To summarize the gaming functioning, the Acer Nitro 5 Spin is a gaming laptop that is just not meant for gaming, period.

Bombardment Life

The Acer Nitro v Spin features a 4-cell 3320 mAh Li-ion battery, which the company claims should terminal y'all for up to 10 hours. Though in my experience, the battery life sits comfortably between three to 5 hours, depending upon your usage. Watching movies and a bit of web browsing and similar tasks should match my claim higher up, even so, gaming is a different story whatsoever.

Get-go off, as a rule of thumb, gaming on a laptop should NOT be done while relying on the battery, since an optimum amount of current is non provided to both the CPU and GPU, resulting in extensive throttling. However, if for some reason, y'all wish to game on your laptop while on the battery, the laptop should last you over an hour and a half while gaming.

In all honesty, the laptop fails to match the claims gear up forth by the company. Furthermore, considering that the device is using the Coffee Lake chipsets from Intel, I genuinely expected more from the laptop.

Acer Nitro v Spin: Jack of All Trades?

Allow's become this straight – if y'all're going to be spending over 90K (tiptop-model) on a gaming laptop, y'all look it to run games on *at least* threescore FPS. Instead, all you're getting is a device that'southward a jack of all trades, scores high in almost every cistron, but fails in the one segment for which information technology is advertised.

The Acer Nitro v Spin is substantially a Lenovo Yoga with a defended GPU that doesn't fifty-fifty touch a quarter of its potential.

Personally, I feel there are much better alternatives out there for your gaming needs, with a couple from Acer themselves. We have the Acer Predator Helios 300, MSI GL62M, Lenovo Legion Y520, and the Dell Inspiron 5577. All of these feature a dedicated Nvidia GPU coupled with an "HQ" processor from Intel that is meant to handle heavy tasks. A "U" serial processor is only good for mobile tasks, something the Acer Nitro 5 Spin can do very well, merely then again, is not justifiable considering its price tag.

If casual desktop operations are what yous desire, merely get *ANY* laptop under 40K and swap out the HDD for an SSD, and you're good to go. And truth be told, the performance you'd get from that setup would also surpass the operation of the Acer Nitro 5 Spin, with a much ameliorate value for money.

All in all, the Acer Nitro 5 Spin is a good convertible laptop but is definitely not a gaming laptop, which makes it hard to justify the laptop's hefty cost tag.

Pros:

• Cracking Build Quality
• Decent Brandish
• Touchpad and Keyboard are a pleasure to utilise
• Speakers are quite loud

Cons:

• Gaming Functioning is a joke
• Improper Thermal Management
• Battery Life Could Have Been Better

Buy Acer Nitro 5 Spin from Flipkart: (Rs. 79,990, i5-variant; Rs. 91,990, i7-variant)

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Acer Nitro v Spin Review: Skip This Ane

All things considered, would I recommend the Acer Nitro 5 Spin to you? As someone who stands in a position to influence millions of readers, I honestly wouldn't recommend this laptop to anyone. If you're a business user, there are better ultrabooks and convertibles available in the market place. If you're a coincidental user, you lot can become the same (or even improve) operation at most half the cost. And lastly, if you lot're a gamer, you tin can get much improve-performing systems at the same price tag. The Acer Nitro 5 Spin just spins around in circles – it is not a gaming laptop, is not as slim and portable as an ultrabook, and is certainly style overpriced for a casual desktop user.

If the Acer Nitro five Spin seemed like an intriguing product to you, it's best that you skip information technology, since it is just not worth information technology for anyone out there.

REVIEW OVERVIEW
Design and Build Quality 8
Connectivity nine
Display 7
Audio eight
Keyboard & Touchpad 8
Convertible Modes 7
Thermals 4.v
Operation 5.v
Battery Life 5.5
Value for Coin four
SUMMARY The Acer Nitro 5 Spin is Not a gaming laptop, is not a real recommendation for someone who wants a convertible or a two-in-i laptop, and is definitely way over-priced for a coincidental user. The extravagant price point and the mediocre functioning make it hard to recommend this laptop to anyone.	6.seven OVERALL SCORE

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