I want to game — not throw a darn 80's party on the keyboard. The last thing I want is distracting features (I'm lookin' at you RGB lighting) disrupting my focus during gameplay. Acer Nitro 5 ...

The affordable Acer fought the Dell to a draw, and it was ... players crave 60fps. The Nitro 5 comes close, and that's such good news I can forgive its mysterious keyboard.

The trackpad centers under the letter section of the keyboard (there’s a numeric keypad to the right). The keys are backlit. The Acer Nitro 5’s keyboard feels solid and snappy, with a tactile ...

Gamers looking for a value laptop will find many machines that bring entry-level discrete graphics at a reasonable price, but not every laptop with such hardware is ideal for gaming. Acer’s ...

It's annoying that Acer has heard our gripes about the Nitro 5's hard-to-read keyboard for years without fixing it, but the laptop has otherwise shown steady improvement, moving from the 30fps to ...

backlit keyboard, superb cooling, and generous I/O, can’t be overlooked. Yet, from where I stand, it’s hard to recommend this laptop to just anyone. The Acer Nitro 5 has tons of ports.

The keyboard is still excellent but the display is average at best. The Acer Nitro 5 has been a go-to for anyone looking for a budget gaming laptop. Acer’s primary budget gaming laptop has ...

Acer’s system monitoring and tweaking software). The keyboard on our Nitro 5 has four-zone RGB backlighting, which can be customized but naturally doesn’t allow for per-key addressing.

Acer’s Nitro 5 gaming laptop has never been much of a ... that moves all of the red details (aside from the red backlit keyboard) to the rear part of the hinge. What’s more impressive, though ...

Assembling a budget gaming PC was considered a more cost-effective way than buying a budget gaming laptop. However, this has changed due to an acute shortage of major PC building components like ...

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