But the Acer Nitro 5 has made ... I credit this to the Nitro 5's powerful ventilation systems. It has dedicated fans for the CPU and GPU, and it's covered in air vents. These can get loud when ...

But the Acer Nitro 5 has a solid setup which includes dual-fan cooling, quad exhausts located on each side, and even an upper air intake situated above the keyboard. This translates to a very well ...

The Nitro 5 ... and Acer has taken full advantage. On the left is Ethernet, USB-C 3.1, HDMI 2.0, USB-A 3.0, and an SD card reader, and on the right are two USB-A 2.0, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and ...

The latest Nitro ... 5.95 pounds, it's hardly the most portable PC, so you may not carry it often, but compared to the Alienware x17—which is slimmer but weighs a ponderous 7.05 pounds—the ...

He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. Acer’s Nitro 5 gaming laptop has never been much of a technical or design showcase, but that’s changing a bit for 2021.

On Tuesday, Acer announced that its Nitro 5 series of casual gaming laptops is leaping into Coffee Lake. Staying true to that vision, while Acer’s press release plays up the inclusion of Core i7 ...

He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. Acer’s Nitro 5 gaming laptop lineup has become more refined and feature-packed over time, and the new versions ...

While both the Nitro 5 and Bravo 15 benefit from AMD's new "Renoir" CPU architecture, there's only so much Acer can do with a $330 lower price. Besides packing a six-core Ryzen 5 versus an eight ...