With its affordable price, decent performance, and robust build, the Acer Aspire 5 is a great budget option for most people. Are you in the market for Windows laptop? Don’t want to spend more than ...

If you're fixated on families of premium laptops laden with fancy features, but finding them far out of your range, meet the Acer Aspire 5: the frugal, old-school uncle of machines. It's a ...

A laptop doesn't have to be good-looking to be a good choice, but that is the trap that many people fall into when purchasing their laptop upgrade. A stylish laptop is welcome, sure, and that's why ...

While it has nice specs, the Acer Aspire 5 15-inch shows some cut corners for its $600 price tag. A small battery, a mediocre keyboard, and the lack of premium touches make it feel less-than-modern.

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...

The Aspire 5 has long been a staple in the budget laptop market, allowing casual users to get their hands on a laptop that can tackle productivity work, streaming, email, and web browsing. I last used ...

Starting off with the most holistic benchmark, the PC Mark 10, we can see that the Acer Aspire 5 gives us a score of around 5148, along with a gaming score of 5527, which is pretty decent in its ...

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