Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52 Intel Core i7 8th Gen 8750H Processor 15.6 inches FHD Gaming Laptop (8GB RAM /128 GB SSD with 1TB HDD/Windows 10/NVIDIA GTX Graphics 1050Ti 4GB GDDR5/Black/2.7kg)

Ordered the laptop on Prime Day sale. Laptop was delivered within 2 days, kudos to Amazon for being super fast as always. I got a great deal on this laptop, the effective cost for me is about 55k (Prime Day Sale 69k - Exchange 10k - Bank Cashback 4k), the current price at the time of writing this review is showing as 93k, which means I saved close to 38k... Thanks to Amazon! Now coming back to initial impressions :Pros :* Performance is great, 8th Gen i7, GTX 1050Ti with an SSD helps a lot. (A restart completes within 30 seconds)* Build quality seems decent and feels like it will last for few years.* Red accents give it a sporty look, especially the back-lit keyboard is a treat to my eyes.* Acer's NitroSense, QuickAccess and CareCenter are very helpful tools which allows you to control the Fan Speed, Performance, Cleanup etc* At the price I bought, its the most VFM laptop. All other laptops with similar specs cost a lot high and feel very expensive compared to this.Cons :* The laptop does heat up on playing games. I tried CS:GO at High settings and the CPU touched 98deg while the GPU touched 75deg. The fans were running loud but didn't improve the temperature as much as I'd like it to. (Sitting in a AC room with 22deg temp)* There were quite a bit of bloatware installed which I had to uninstall before I could do anything else.* The 128GB SSD doesn't feel adequate as I have already filled up 80GB out of available 118GB storage space within few hours only by installing very minimum applications that I needed.* The keys on the keyboard are very odd, the layout isn't the best. I tend to press Home instead of Del often. The arrow keys are very thin and feel congested.* The battery feels inadequate for this laptop, Acer could've given a battery with more capacity.Other Notes :* I loved the Laptop's box, Acer did a good job in designing it.* The power button is flushed with the keyboard layout. (Top right corner key)* Although the laptop has red accents at multiple places, it has a rather strange purple accent within the power inlet and at power adapter pin end.* Finally at the current price of 93K, I'd look at MSI or Asus ROG series instead of Nitro series since they are more gaming focused.

I got this beast during a sale at a net price of 69,000. At the time of writing this it costs approximately 89,000.For the price I got it at, there was no question of finding a better choice. There simply wasn't one.The specs are absolutely fantastic. It can handle games like FIFA and Rocket League at max settings and some AAA titles at high settings with ease. The SSD which, as a standalone product is one of the lowest tier models around, does help in application boot times and OS boot time. Transfer speeds are so-so.The display is in my opinion the 2nd best in class, only to be beaten by the Dell Inspiron 7000 series, but that's notably more expensive. Its bright, very good colour balance, and the matte finish make it quite pleasing to look at. This is good enough, I believe for media creation and editing work as the colours are crisp and cover a good segment of the Adobe RGB spectrum. The specs make it a great mobile workstation.The build is generally quite nice , with good quality plastic on the outside and a sturdy base. The keyboard is quite good and typing on it is a good experience. It has well spaced keys, with a nice typing pressure. They're slightly on the softer side and are quiet too. The trackpad is a good size and is very good to use. It works with Windows' inbuilt touchpad settings. No nonsense 3rd party drivers and customisation software to deal with.The sound quality is also not that good, with fairly ordinary speakers. But this is to be expected since it isn't a full fledged gaming machine. The presence of Dolby software however makes for good output through headphones.The hexacore i7 is a joy to work with. Very snappy and quite power efficient. Which sadly doesn't help the overall battery life, due to the presence of a desktop grade graphics card. However, if someone is looking for battery life, then a gaming laptop of any kind is the wrong category to browse. For me it's as expected.The laptop is well equipped with ports and even includes a USB 3.1 type-c port, which is great for a bit of future-proofing and high speed data transfer.The cons are that the cooling system isn't well designed. Over time it will impact system performance and will require more maintenance than other laptops of this category to ensure smooth function. You will find laptops from MSI and Asus with much better cooling design, but for slightly higher prices, & you will be giving up on display quality.The keyboard backlight has only an on and off function. Brightness control would have been a very good option. It's great for the day but too bright for dark rooms.The frame of the screen doesn't have any metal in it so it's quite flexible. That helps to reduce weight but causes a lot of flex when being bent. So added care is needed while handling it or loading it in a backpack.For a model running in 2018, it has too few USB 3.0 ports. Even the type-c port is of an old standard. This bit is just sad.But, for me, the price at which I got it, I'm simply in no position to complain. It's a phenomenal bang for my buck. I would suggest buyers to keep an eye out for it's price, in case it falls again.