Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, 15.6" Full HD IPS Display, 8th Gen Intel Core i3-8145U, 4GB DDR4, 128GB PCIe Nvme SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 10 in S Mode, A515-54-30BQ

My new Acer Aspire 5 arrived yesterday. I immediately added an extra 8G DDR4 Ram chip to it, for a total of 12G.; you simply unscrew the 10 tiny screws on the backplate with a small Phillips head; slip the backplate off and pop your new DDR4 chip into the little socket provided. Total time? About 12 minutes.Really, the unit is now amazingly fast... I haven't seen it hiccup or lag yet. I had opted for the Intel chip version of the Aspire, as it does have a slightly faster CPU speed. I immediately opted-out of the Windows 10 "S" mode... which literally took a few seconds to do. I connected my high-speed internet to the unit via the Ethernet socket, and proceeded to upgrade all the drivers and firmware for the unit. I gave the unit a good Defrag and a Registry cleanse, and I'm good-to-go.I mainly bought this laptop as a way to entertain myself on long airplane flights. The unit is very light and handsome... I am mystified by those who point out that the chassis is not more hip 'n' chic looking, because it looks great to me. I've also read several pro reviews online which allege that the unit is deeply flawed by a bad-looking monitor display; I absolutely don't know what they're talking about-- the display looks amazing to me: super-sharp and clear 1080p, with natural-looking colors, perfect brightness and contrast. Fonts look sharp yet nicely antialiased. A 15.6" monitor is perfect real estate to view movies on while traveling, neither too big nor too small.I will agree with the naysayers who say that the onboard speakers are not very loud, and the sound quality is not as good as one might wish. Yep, those things are true, but hey, who expects a laptop to sound like Studio 54? Usually one will be using headphones anyway, right? When watching videos on the VLC Player, one can tweak their included graphic equalizer in order to get the optimum sound response possible.I will soon be purchasing a mouse for this unit, as, at age 56, I never have gotten the hang of using a touchpad. I am not a gamer at all, so am not worried about the power needed to play GTA, etc. Although I will take a stab at doing 2D and 3D artwork in Photoshop and Cinema 4D and see how it goes.All-in-all, I am very pleased with this new laptop and hope to get lots of good use out of it. At this price-point, I don't see that you can do much better. Highly recommended.

I've been using computers since the Intel 8088 processor hit the market via the first IBM PC...well truth be told, we came out at the same time in June of 1979. I feel somewhat like the old man relaying how they walked to school, up hill both ways, in the snow, with no shoes on, saying this but when that device came out, it cost the equivalent of $5,000 ~ $10,000 USD today. Fast forward to 2007 when I purchased my Mac Book Pro for $2,500 to do high-end Graphic design on, with a Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2 RAM and 5400RPM HDD....and now....I just purchased a budget buy of a PC that puts them both utterly to shame.I say these things because it has a large bearing on the decision to purchase this laptop. I just finished repairing and upgrading my mother in laws laptop from 2011 that cost more than this but had now where near the performance, even for it's time. Granted, this is not a gaming PC as it does not have a dedicated graphics card but it has enough to push the envelope of what we consider a budget PC. Also worth noting is that this laptop is a replacement for my Dell M6700 workstation laptop that got murdered by lightning.The 8th gen i3 is only half of the overall power of the i7 that was in my M6700. But! the "Single Thread Rating" of the newer i3 is significantly better...and let's face it, even many of the graphic design tasks I do are really only single threaded applications. So, all that extra power was usually not even being tapped. My CPU was usually only at 25% doing HD renderings in Blender. That's definitely worth considering when buying a device, what are the needs of your tasks? If they are single thread tasks, like most non gaming tasks, then an i3 performs quite well, so long as you don't over multi-task by running to many applications at once.It's got DDR4, which is an obvious advantage over DDR3 systems. But even systems that cost more than twice as much are being sold with 5400RPM HDDs. There are very significant performance differences between SSD and HDD systems and the fact that this laptop comes with NVMe drive, which outperforms both SSD and HDD, gives it a solid edge over other budget PCs. Being only 4GB of RAM can be concerning, especially for things like photo and video editing...but I used to do that with 2GB or RAM and it is easily upgradable to 20GB. 128GB of storage is not a lot either by today's standards, but for $50 yo can add in a decent 2TB HDD for storage...i just so happened to already have one because of my system that died. I also redirect my Desktop, Downloads and Documents to the secondary drive to help keep the OS drive clean...worth Google-ing to do yourself.The display is great! it was important to me to get something that is Full HD 1080. I was very near to buying something in the tablet range just because most laptops in this class are only 1366 x 768. it is also not glossy, which I rather prefer. In most cases, glossy screens create in consistent results because of reflecting too much of the environment.It is also very thin and light weight. This was a very important factor since my M6700 was twice has heavy and twice as thick. Overall, I'd say this laptop is the perfect balance of budget pricing with mid level performance.

No me gusto q no venia la contraseña para entear venia a nombre de otra persona

I found the setting up rather cumbersome

I use it for my basic needs - ie. emails, FB, Twitter. I keep all my files on One Drive and Photos on Google.Great for use as a search engine too.

Es ligera, rápida, funcional!! Es la mejor inversión que puedes hacer y por mucho!!El teclado es de excelente calidad, la pantalla y el procesador son buenos y mas que eso!!

Allround fantastic laptop. It has a slot for adding RAM, as well ass to add an additional 2.5inch hdd/ssd. Genius!