Acer Aspire E 15 review

Acer Aspire E 15 review

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It’s easy to get spoiled when you review notebook PCs for a living. Today’s premium machines have elegant designs, but they’re also expensive, and there’s a tendency to forget that many people simply can’t spend thousands of dollars on a PC. It’s good to spend some time with a budget notebook that’s priced well under $1,000, and one that strives to offer solid value rather than cater to those with the most money to spend.

The Acer Aspire E 15 is just such a notebook with battery like Acer AL15A32 Battery, Acer KT.00403.025 Battery, Acer E5-422 Battery, Acer E5-772 Battery, Acer F5-572 Battery, Acer V3-575 Battery, Acer Extensa 2510 Battery, Acer Extensa 2511 Battery, Acer Extensa 2520 Battery, Acer P258-M Battery, Acer P257-M Battery, Acer TravelMate P277-M Battery, aggressively priced at $600 for our review configuration. It packs in a 15.6-inch Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 or X PPI) display, an eighth-generation Intel Core i5-8250U CPU, a discrete Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU, 8GB of RAM, a DVD-RW drive, and a 256GB SATA solid-state drive (SSD). You can drop down to 4GB of RAM, lose the discrete GPU, substitute a 1TB hard disk-drive (HDD), and spend as little as $350.

The Acer Aspire E 15 is a great example of a machine doing its intended job very well. It’s not a premium notebook and doesn’t pretend to be one; rather, Acer clearly aimed to provide a solid value, with performance, build quality, and battery life that leads the class for less money than you’d expect to pay. Taken all together, the Aspire E 15 is more notebook than you’d expect to receive for the money, and that’s a very good thing.

One of the more direct competitors to the Aspire E 15 is Acer’s own Aspire 5. That machine’s also a rather large and chunky 15.6-inch notebook that’s similarly priced and shares a similar build quality. It’s still mired in the past, though, and it costs the same $600 for a seventh-generation Core i5-7200U CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SATA SSD, and a Full HD display. You save on some thickness, but you also give up the DVD-RW drive. And you won’t see nearly the battery life, either.

Another interesting option is the Dell Inspiron 15 7577, a 15.6-inch budget gaming notebook that’s considerably pricier at $900 for a seventh-generation 45-watt Core i5-7300HQ CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SATA SSD, and a Full HD display. That extra $300 gets you a faster processor as well as much faster Nvidia GTX 1060 with Max-Q GPU that’s going to make for a much better gaming machine, but you’ll also want to take your power supply with you on the road.

One way to spend even less money is to go with a Chromebook. These notebooks are often less expensive than their Windows equivalents. However, it won’t run the same applications nor work as well when it’s not connected to the internet, and so whether it’s a viable option comes down to what you need your PC to do.

The Aspire E 15 is built well enough that you won’t worry about how long it lasts, particularly given the minimal investment. And it’s running the latest eighth-generation Intel CPU, with the ability to pop open the case and upgrade the RAM and storage yourself. It even has a USB-C port to provide some future-proof connectivity. If you run into problems, you’ll be covered by a one-year warranty.

Yes. You’re not likely to find a better machine in this price range. The Aspire E 15 would make a great notebook for just about anyone with typical computing needs, proving plenty of power and battery life for churning through productivity tasks, and just enough gaming performance to run most popular games.