A few questions about Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55-53E5

KrishJames123

Hey, I have two questions about the Acer Nitro 5, the model number is Acer-AN515-55-53E5. Both of my questions are related to the durability of this laptop.

The first question is about the lid. I usually open my laptop and close my laptop's lid by holding it from the upper left side corner of the laptop's screen. I learnt today that it is not safe to do that, is it true? Is Acer Nitro 5 stable enough to handle such action? Will it damage the laptop's lid in long term? How can I know if my laptop's lid is already damaged? What problems should I check for? What kind of damages can be caused by opening the laptop by holding it on the corner of lid? How can I know if my laptop is still fine or needs repair? Please help me on this topic! I will stop doing this, I just want to check for all problems doing this can cause and make sure that my laptop is still fine or needs repair.

And the second question is that is it safe to carry my laptop around while a game's running? It has a HDD inside, can sudden jerks or lifting my laptop up from the table or sliding it on the table damage my laptop's internal parts? HDD? Fans or anything? Is Acer Nitro 5 durable enough to handle it? I want your personal opinion on the laptop and I want to ask if doing this will cause any problems?

StevenGen

The best practice to close and open the lid of a laptop is from the front middle to push down or push up to open the laptop. As opening and closing the lid from its sides it puts uneven forces onto the laptops hinge and its base that is plastic and is susceptible to break.

With a HDD and a mechanical HDD, if the drive is functioning and turned on, its internal parts (like its head and platter) moves around, in a laptop this could be very sudden and aggressive movements that will damage the HDD head and platter that is spinning around at 5400 rpm. While in an SSD there are no moving parts and physical or movement knocking damage is a not an issue/factor (except if the drive gets a straight on knock sand gets physically damaged) as any other movements and knocks of your laptop will not cause damage loss of data and/or any interruptions to an SSD's functionality.