ECO Friendly and POWERFUL?! - Acer Aspire Vero

Acer has made some outrageous laptops like sliding keyboards, dual power connectors, and more. The Aspire Vero is still a bit out there but in an excellent environmental way by being almost fully recycled, eco-conscious, and most importantly, repairable.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Unboxing
1:34 - Exterior impressions
3:47 - Sponsor - Vessi
4:13 - Display impressions
5:11 - Trackpad impressions
5:50 - Eco points
6:25 - Keyboard impressions
6:52 - More display impressions
7:25 - Fingerprint reader impressions
8:21 - Speaker impressions
9:40 - Overall thoughts
9:50 - Specs
10:41 - Gaming impressions
11:22 - Taking apart the laptop
13:11 - Final thoughts

[TECHN]

I want Alex to do a lifecycle analysis on EVERY single last component in that laptop on the main channel. It might be an hour long, but I'd love to see it...

[grahamross]

Really appreciate the tear-down and "repairness" segments in these reviews.
Thanks.
Only thing I'd ask for is some kind of supported life statement on stuff like this.
These things would look really good in the "corporate sustainability" section of an annual report.

[johnb]

Title: "an eco friendly laptop that doesn't suck"
Framework: "Am I a joke to you?"

[Dranzell]

"We're so eco friendly! Here are 20 pieces of paper that tells you how eco friendly we are!"

[barbarosaa]

Nice - Alex gets my like 'cos of the recognition of the dilemma we're facing when it comes to the packaging

[WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

Recycled ≠ eco-friendly. REDUCE and RE-USE come before recycle.

Being built to last and/or upgradeable, like the Framework laptop, makes much more of an impact.

[HawkOnHOG]

My experience with Acer has been that they are really good bang for the buck, and easily upgrade-able. I am rocking a 2012 aspire v3 that packaged with 2nd gen i3, and I was able to easily upgrade to 2nd gen i7, upgraded RAM and swapped my hdd for ssd, and replacing the keyboard was a breeze. They also support 2 storage drives. I love it so much that I picked up an identical twin on ebay a couple years ago and performed the same mods. Now I have 2 of them, one being my home laptop, and the other, I travel with. To this day, they both still perform very well, with no issues. They aren't super gaming computers or anything, but they are very decent and do everything I need them to do with ease.

[jacobscharmberg]

Love that they are at least attempting a more repairable design! It's definitely not perfect but it's a start and makes a statement. Way to go Acer!

[sebastianfruhwirth]

I am a longtime ace user and still so happy that i made the right choice 6 years ago. My laptop is working like a charm, although it is so old. And easy to repair as well.

[MLeoM]

0:36 absolutely love that mention there.
It is good if recycling these items, or making them doesn't hurt nature,
if it hurts more to recycle than to make new, then that's not much good.

So,
1. Recyclers must use environment friendly recycling methods and develop such technologies.
2. The new or recycled product must not hurt nature.

If these two aren't met, then the "recycled" becomes a word used for marketing and to deceive people that they are helping the planet....

[grozaphy]

Acer: Our displays suck at displaying green so we should out green wallpaper on it.

[saikiranj]

Man, Alex makes these videos so chill that I don't even care about the products.

[Djuntas]

Hello guys, up-vote the comment! So I bought this laptop, in my country Denmark the I5 model (Newest 11th gen, 1155g7) and 8gbs of ram 3200 mhz, 512gb nvme ssd was a good price, with the I7 / 16gb running a bit more.

Hardware: 8 gigs can only be upgraded to 12. Im planning to do this. Just booting the laptop eats like 3-4gigs on windows 11 which it comes with only. Bloatware was not to bad, CPU usage on first boot was very low, or 0-3% most of the time, so good enough, the acer software I also didn't remove actually.

It runs quit hot sadly. Even this tigerlake stuff is....not good for battery, and speaking about the I5 model...the IGPU is great. Performance is good, even in games with 60 FPS low settings. It also feels snappy to use etc, but heat is a problem/noisy fans under load. But its 100% silent when not doing much...ALSO! This pissed me off, but the exhaust (warm air) comes out on the top, instead of the sides, so it overheats if you close the lid and continue using the laptop with external monitor - Good thing you can turn off the screen on the laptop and get all things working that way in windows display settings...Also HDR works great on windows 11, no issues :)

Build quality is also fine. There is no screen wobble on mine, which Alex had...I really worried about that too, but only the left hinge feels a bit loose, but else no wobble...So far. Anyway full plastic and it feels sturdy. Some deck flex for sure compared to aluminium chassis etc.

In general im happy enough but I think battery is lacking, problems with heat when lid closed AND! also the so-so screen, also because of the amount of ports I like it, I wanted a laptop with ethernet/rj45 port, and only Lenovo and HP seems to have some laptops with that now a days besides acer. Anyway on battery size most in this price range used same 3-cell lithium 45-50 what hour battery or whatever its called.

In general it was the best laptop for performance/hardware and stuff in my country as of end of 2021 in that price bracket. Many laptops has little ports, 256gb, the older I5 1135g7 etc, AND none offered 16gb...Also on the ram, the bios is very limited on these notebooks so no XMP, aka only 2667 MHz ram speed dual channel on my model...

Oh also I opened it up to see what ram and ssd brand it was, Kingston nvme and Samsung ram. You just need a small plastic guitar pick to open it yes. Very easy, anyone can do it.

Hope that helps, please up-vote the comment for others.

[phreapersoonlijk]

100% recyclable is impossible on these kinds of electronics. A high percentage yes, 100% no.

[alistairblaire]

I don't know if it was intended but the design and color give me distinct 90's tech vibes. I really like it.

[thegamemaster]

Ive always loved my acer laptops.Cheap, but decent quality. Even before this they were fairly easily repaired. I daily drove an Acer Aspire 4810T for over 8 years from 2009 to 2018. I replaced batteries, heat pipes, storage, wifi chip, ports. The only reason i let it go was i broke the screen and the replacement was like150 bucks and i decided to stop using it.

[nexaentertainment]

I actually really love those aesthetics. Something about that color with the plastic flecks is just good looking, almost nostalgic. Retro-futuristic?

[OTechnology]

That's amazing how easily taken apart-able that laptop is. I hope more manufacturers go this way (more like framework).

[timplett]

To everyone complaining about how its eco-friendliness isn't enough, bear in mind that a giant corporation like Acer can't just change overnight. Like it or not, it has shareholders that don't give a damn about the environment, they only care about the bottom line. Do not hate on gradual change because it is not instant change. If a couple years from now this turns out to be a token gesture at being eco-friendly when the rest of their line shows no change, then yes, Acer is not eco-friendly. If this is the first of many small steps in the right direction, then kudos for Acer, and keep it up!

[seanm]

Used one of these for the last 6 months and it's great, Im a big fan of how solid it feels compared to most other