Acer Aspire 15 Reddit Verdict: Budget Pick or Display Letdown?

Both the Aspire 5 and 3 are great options. The 15.6 inch Acer Aspire 5 you mentioned is great, but it might be above the budget you set.

Good choice IMHO :)

So it supports 32 gigs of RAM, right? The only thing I could find is that it's 16 max, but manufacturers often don't give actual numbers. As far as I know, Acer Aspire 15 has 8 gigs soldered, so that means that you have a 24 RAM stick in your laptop, which is pretty unusual.

I only play Minecraft, Roblox, CS 2, Don't Starve Together, and Genshin on it. But mostly it's work related.

Have the same one. It's very good for daily use. I even play some games on it.

4GB RAM in this day and age? If it's upgradable then OK. Personally, I wouldn't get a dual-core CPU these days. 7k is an OK price though.

Personally I wouldn't get a PC with less than 8gb and a quad core, but 7k is a good price for that. But stretch your budget a bit and you could get a 10th gen i5 ThinkPad or Latitude — business laptops have better build quality.

You WILL upgrade to 12gb. You'll get annoyed by the slowness otherwise.

Yup. It's a good deal for 7k.

Goods naman, upgrade mo lang yung RAM. Alam ko 300 lang inabot ko sa 8gb na DDR3 RAM.

What's going on with the Acer Aspire battery? I don't know if I need a new battery or the power cord. When running on battery and I get the critical low message and plug it in, the laptop won't power back up when I hit the power button.

I bought the Acer Aspire from a good offline store in my city back in March 2024. It comes with 16GB DDR4 RAM, a 500GB SSD, an i5 12th Gen processor, and Intel UHD graphics. After nine months of use, it's holding up nicely. The speaker volume is a bit low, but I installed some third-party apps to enhance the sound.

Great device but the display is a downer. I am watching movies and shows but you need to watch it with the right angle. It is quite bright though if it counts.

After two weeks of use, I found it to be more laggy than I expected for 32gb RAM. The fan often kicks up with what I consider to be moderate usage and gets pretty hot at times. The backlit keyboard and fingerprint reader is nice, but after coming from a touchscreen laptop, I found myself missing that feature when working with maps. I'm actually actively searching for a replacement at this time given the lower performance.

My laptop which I'm typing this on has the same integrated graphics. Basically the best you can probably game is 30-60 fps on 1080p in the low settings. That's with games that aren't like new or recent AAA ones. If you play esports games or even MMOs it will be playable on low, you can switch to 720p to improve the performance even more on most games but it will look pretty bad.

This is not a gaming laptop. Please do not buy it expecting it to be a gaming laptop. Look for something with a dedicated GPU.

I'm also considering getting the laptop but if we're talking specs I would advise you go for the version that has a core i5 13420H CPU rather than the 150U version.

This was $260 a day or two ago.

I bought in 2019 and still own an Acer Aspire 5 A515-55g. Overall it is a good budget laptop suited for home office use and even gaming. TL/DR get this laptop if you're on a budget but make sure to get the version with a dedicated graphics processor.

Yes I bought this one. It's been great so far.

I am thinking of buying it but some local store review says that the display is crap, although I will be using it with a 4k monitor but my wife is going to use it as is so I don't want her yelling at me.

Even a little bit of research would have worked here — you could have probably even gotten a gaming laptop with a decent GPU at a similar price. Please be careful the next time you buy a laptop.

That's not a gaming laptop.

If you're using it for gaming you're cooked.

I got one a few days before Black Friday for a bit less than $500 at the Source. Apparently right now it's out of stock at the Source but Best Buy has it.

Thanks for the reply! That's a darn shame. Wonder why it was so laggy with 32gb of RAM.