Should I buy the Acer Aspire e15?

MugelCrinch
MugelCrinch Member Posts: 2 New User

Hello all,

I am going to be in college in about 3 months and will need a laptop/desktop/ or both for it. I will be in engineering and may need a somewhat powerful machine. Is the Acer Aspire e15 with i5-8250U processor, 8 GB of DDR3, 256 SSD, NVIDIA 150MX , for $600 good for me? I care a little bit about battery life and would want 6+ hours. I also would not want a laptop to be excessively heavy (6+) lbs.The other option would be for me to get the acer 15'' chromebook and then spend the rest of the money on a desktop. Not sure what I should do and any advice/suggestions are well appreciated. Thank you!

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  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,330 Trailblazer
    >>>need a laptop/desktop/ or both for it>>>

    Do you really need both? Or do you only like to have both? A desktop is usually much more powerful than a laptop for the same or less money. Laptop battery life depends heavily on the program & application loads you expect to use. Typically you can expect only about half the advertised laptop battery life under actual real world use. 

    Jack E/NJ

  • jandan
    jandan Member Posts: 4 New User
    Personally i would never, ever buy an acer product, they lie, keep your computer, and blame you for their fault goods, and then have to audacity to tell you they want £771 to repair a fault they sold it to PC World with, just a total scam, we have now lost ALL our data that was stored on our computer.  It is an appalling service 
  • MugelCrinch
    MugelCrinch Member Posts: 2 New User

    Hello all,

    I am going to be in college in about 3 months and will need a laptop/desktop/ or both for it. I will be in engineering and may need a somewhat powerful machine. Is the Acer Aspire e15 with i5-8250U processor, 8 GB of DDR3, 256 SSD, NVIDIA 150MX , for $600 good for me? I care a little bit about battery life and would want 6+ hours. I also would not want a laptop to be excessively heavy (6+) lbs.The other option would be for me to get the acer 15'' chromebook and then spend the rest of the money o VidMate n a desktop. Not sure what I should do and any advice/suggestions are well appreciated. Thank you!

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  • spiceagent11
    spiceagent11 Member Posts: 10 New User
    Do you really need both? Or do you only like to have both? A desktop is usually much more powerful than a laptop for the same or less money. Laptop battery life depends heavily on the program & application loads you expect to use. 
  • ttttt
    ttttt Member Posts: 1,947 Community Aficionado WiFi Icon
    @MugelCrinch

    Recently I bought an Aspire 5 A515-46-R14k for USD $367 (last week $347, and today $408). It has AMD Ryzen 3 3350U CPU, 1920x1080 ISP display, 1 USB 2.0 port + 2 USB 3.0 ports and one 5 Gbit/s Type-C port, backlit keyboard, finger print reader, 128 GB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVME SSD ( though the read speed is little weak , just little over 600 MB/s, still faster than SATA SSD), 4GB soldered RAM ( max 20GB if add a 16GB module to the open SO-DIMM slot), 720p web cam. If you are not a heavy gamer with high resolution graphics intention you'll find that the Vega 6 integrated graphics should be adequate.

    It also has a HDMI 2.0 video output port for a second monitor. I connect it to a 4K TV (using 4K cable of course) for steaming everyday, and I can verify that it is capable of 4K resolution.
     
    This laptop boots and shutdowns just as fast as my best desktop ( i5-11500 CPU, PCIe 4.0 motherboard, using gen 4 x4 M.2 NVMe SSD with seq. read speed close to 7,000 MB/s).

    Just received another 4GB RAM for USD $15, intend for optimal dual channel performance.

    Also get another 500 GB WD Blue SATA3 SSD for USD $55, getting ready to install to the laptop for future Linux installation and system image backup plus some data storage space.

    If you want a DVD drive, you can get one for less than USD $30. All of these add up will be still less than USD $600.

    I would highly recommend this laptop.
  • ttttt
    ttttt Member Posts: 1,947 Community Aficionado WiFi Icon
    @MugelCrinch

    Corrections:

    The display is IPS, not ISP

    The 128GB M.2 NVMe SSD sequential write speed is weak, not the sequential read. The sequential read still 3,200 MB/s+

    For $30, you can get an USB external DVD, don't think of it as an internal one.
  • spiceagent11
    spiceagent11 Member Posts: 10 New User
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    spiceagent11 Member Posts: 10 New User
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