Buy this laptop (on sale) - Acer Nitro V (2023)

(Contest is open to anyone 13+ in the United States)

Acer has been making pretty decent "budget" gaming laptops for awhile now, and the new Acer Nitro V seems like it could continue to be a solid option for people looking to game on the cheap. Alex is here to see if Acer's cuts make this a no-brainer purchase or a headscratcher.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 It wasn't my fault
0:21 Unboxing
1:19 Design impressions and ports
3:08 Keyboard flex test and fan position
4:18 Sponsor - NexiGo
4:46 Screen impressions and LABS display results
6:45 Specs and fan sound/power modes
8:36 Gaming impressions and LABS performance results
9:46 Trackpad and keyboard impressions
11:22 Speaker impressions and comparisons
12:55 Webcam and microphone impressions
13:33 Teardown
15:36 Overall thoughts
16:33 Outro

[thomasharrick]

To anyone from LMG - that trick, where the editor changed the saturation to show the effectively poor color space (6:28), was a neat way of visualizing a statistic that is often hard to wrap your head around real-world impact. Sure, it's not a lab-quality demo, but "your colors might look like this" computes a lot better in my head than "it has x% of color space coverage". Please do more of that. Little touches like that make the videos so much better.

[ven]

I bought an Acer Nitro 5 back in 2019--8th gen Intel, 1050 Ti, 8G RAM, 256GB SSD. First ever computer that was mine, beforehand I was using a 6 (8?) year old AIO PC that was dying. Got me started in my computer hobby.

[jojo]

"there is no wiggle"
*proceed to wiggle the whole keyboard*

[spdcrzy]

This is a really, REALLY good value if you use it as a low-end desktop replacement and use it with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It's similar to what I used to do. It's passable for occasional travel use, and has a good enough price-to-performance ratio WHEN ON SALE that it's a pretty good "beginner" laptop for someone who maybe doesn't really care about things like keyboard flex or bad speakers - and maybe they keep it plugged into a pair of speakers as well.

[techalicious]

The fact they played a bell sound when it hit Bell

[Ehaeka]

I recently got the Acer Nitro 16, which is this laptop, but better in every single way. Significantly better display at 1920x1200 165hz 99.8% SRGB Coverage if memory serves, better build, better keyboard, 90wh battery, waaaay better speakers, better camera and mic, Ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, still the same cringe stickers. So satisifed with it, fantastic laptop for the price

[chayze]

I gotta say, the amount of great old days I'm having since Alex started hosting videos really skyrocketed

[shenchingyeh]

For the same price, get a MSI prestige 16 studio, RTX4060 with miniLED monitor 165Hz

[hangwannabe]

I remember when my sister and I went to Best Buy to get work laptops and were looking for something in the $450 range and we saw Nitro 5's for about $600 with dedicated graphics cards and we decided to just do that and it was fantastic. Nitro 5's were and still are excellent intro level budget friendly PC gaming.

[ridhokartoni]

I think The LOQ from Lenovo is a better option for the overall improvement of the Performance. like having a mux switch and advanced Optimus, and for the budget option we can get the 3050 6gb vram variant for a lot cheaper if you don't want to game intensely. more solid build quality the keyboard is better and not so gaming looks. personally i have the intel 3050 variant and its always running quiet when i code or browsing with 20 chrome tabs open and while gaming the laptop is not getting really high temps and hover between 70-80 ish while running AAA games.

[shadowwsk]

Man this ticks every boxes for cheap gaming laptop, horrible screen, bad keyboard, unusable speakers, thick and massive and the loudest thing possible in your classroom. This is your run of the mill college student's gaming laptop😂

[JelaniWood]

I'm a fan of the Acer Nitro series. They have quietly been the low key best cheapie gaming laptops since about 2016 or so. Best bang for the buck at their price point especially if you go for a well equipped slightly older or refurbished model. Some corners are cut like not having a very rigid body and not the best viewing angles on the screen but overall they are one of the best deals in gaming not just gaming laptops.

[mohammedakhiltk]

Im pointing this out as I own this laptop that the speakers are very good, the problem is out of the box the dtsx ultra makes the audio preset to shooter config. The speaker are actually very loud and above average for the price that it was launched at atleast in my country. The LOQ is almost the same price here for the 3050 6gb and except for the MUX switch and better display, nitro is more of a value for money lap here. But got to say the LOQ is a very fine laptop.

[chinglegitrdx]

I own 3 acer laptops (Nitro 5 2020, Predator Helios Neo 16, Aspire 5 2022), and i can tell you this laptop uses the aspire line chassis, so basically its a thin and light packed with entry-mid tier hardware branded as a gaming laptop. if you can spare just a little bit more cash then you should go for the Nitro 16 instead, which shares chassis with the Neo 16, giving it much more thermal headroom, and so power to the components

[trent]

That's what I did with my Lenovo loq last year I got the 8 GB one with a 13th Gen I5 a 1tb SSD and a 3060 and got a 32 gig ram kit at a later date all in all I spent 800 bucks total on it and couldn't be happier with the product

[variares]

I daily drive a nitro 5 for school, I have a pc for gaming but this thing crushes 3D modeling. Honestly for a powerful laptop that's cheaper than some other thinbook trash, it's great priced and honestly one of the most repairable machines I've encountered. I also just have throttlestop for the noise just in case I'm not doing something intense.

[XrentonX]

Bro that keyboard was like a trampoline lol

[tajemniczepulchnecos]

Watching this on my old acer nitro 5 with i7 8750h and gtx 1060 6 Gb. It still works fine. After undervolting of course.

[matoumatheu]

when you have a laptop with a pretty bad screen like this the best you can do is play with the saturation gamma and other stuff to get a way better picture even if the color accuracy is still going to be bad

[Rza-zs]

I went from an Asus tuf 15 inch, fhd, 3060, 12650h to an Acer nitro 16, 165hz QHD+ 500nit, 4070, 7940hs. I was worried about the acer while awaiting delivery cause yeh, its a budget brand but I love it. The built-in 1TB NVME is outperforming the 2TB Samsung 980 pro by a couple percent, screen is amazing, thermals good, quiet as heck on balanced where I leave it. Camera and speakers are meh. I never use the trackpad. For the sound I had to KILL the DTS, it was unusable while DTS was running, even with my DT 770's, uninstall that immediately. Hinge is way better than the Asus tuf too.