Acer Nitro 17 Gaming Laptop | AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Octa-Core CPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU | 17.3″ QHD 165Hz IPS Display | 1TB Gen 4 SSD | Wi-Fi 6E | RGB Backlit KB | AN17-41-R7G3, Black

Desktop replacement with a gorgeous screen and a nice surprise.
Explanation of pictures – Two computers side by side shows the bright colors of the Acer Nitro 17 display vs. my wife’s Lenovo 5 Slim which I had considered but dismissed after seeing the display at a local retailer. The other picture shows that my system came with DDR5 5600MHz vs. the 4800MHz it was advertised to have. Bonus for me! :)A quick recap of why I ended up purchasing this computer.Unfortunately we are in a position of having to downsize dramatically and our desktop computers will be going in to storage. My wife and I are both avid gamers, currently really in to playing Baldur’s Gate 3 a couple times a week with some friends.I knew I needed something with enough grunt to play most any game I threw at it for at least 2-3 years, my previous experience with the 60 level (860M) GPU told me that this would be a good enough level to handle that want. I needed to have a CPU that would be able to handle my day to day work, enough umph to handle games, be higher end to remain serviceable for a good few years, and be efficient. My biggest want was a big vibrant display, followed by power port on the back, current gen ports (HDMI 2.1, USB 4 Type C, and USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A) , DDR5, and last but so far away from least would be build quality.GPU is handled by a Nvidia 4060 8GB (would have gone 4070 if they had a 12GB version, but all I could find was 8GB). Performance different between the 4060 and 4070 is ~15%, not enough different to justify the price. While looking at this there was an Asus ROG with a 12th Gen i7 and a 4070 but it was built on an outdated system board that only ran DDR4, the performance gains going from DDR4 3200 MHz to DDR5 4800MHz is about 6-7% which brings than GPU advantage in to check. The CPU going to the Ryzen 7 7840 vs the 12th gen i7 gives about 5-7% as well. So there goes most of the gains. Sure some games won’t be hindered by the loss of CPU or Memory and the 4070 will knock the 4060 back down, but as games get more advanced and more CPU intensive, I like having the extra grunt and the extra RAM speed. That was my reasoning for staying with the less expensive 4060.CPU, I’m an AMD fanboy. I have been for years. Ever single desktop I’ve built since I started building have been AMD. Started with AMD K5 P166 way back when. Then K6 200, 233, K6-2, Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, FX, Ryzen 7 1700, Ryzen 7 5700X, and now Ryzen 7 7840HS. I opted for the Ryzen 7 over the Ryzen 5 (7640HS) which was available in a Lenovo I was comparing against, and interestingly enough the one my wife ended up with. I know this CPU will handle what I need for a long while and be very efficient.Display. Boy howdy, let me tell you this thing is gorgeous. Bright (in the picture it is at 50% brightness and it looks just as bright as the Lenovo 5 Slim 16″ WUXGA display at 100%). Color reproduction is great, not the best in the world but let’s be real here… this laptop does not cost that much. For a 17.3″ display that puts out this much eye melting beauty is a steal. Blows away others that cost $500 more. Just look at the picture. Speaks for itself.RAM – 16GB, enough for now. And by some hiccup mine came with 5600MHz DDR5 instead of the advertised 4800MHz. I call that a win and it will surely help down the road.Build Quality – I was most worried about this and sort of still am. I’ve owned HP, Lenovo, and Dell. Never been happy with the HP. Dell held up great. My old Lenovo from 2014 was built like a tank and was what I held on to until I purchased this one. That system had a 4th Gen i7, Nvidia 860M, and 16GB RAM. It handled most things great until recently, it has been retired to being a garage computer. It doesn’t feel cheap. The hinge is crazy tight. The palm rest doesn’t flex under weight unless you push really hard. The keyboard doesn’t dip while typing. The display doesn’t shake at all while typing. Keyboard feels solid. No missed keys while typing this long review. Touchpad is a little cheap, wish it were a bit more accurate or made of a more slippery material so my finger wouldn’t skip while dragging slowly. But let’s be honest, I’m using a mouse when I do anything that required more precision than a touchpad can deliver. Time will tell if it holds up. The black plastic surface is a fingerprint magnet so keep a microfiber cloth for when you want to wipe it off. With all of that being said I am purchasing the 4 Year extended warranty for this laptop which means I likely won’t have to make a claim because that’s how it goes with these things, you know what I’m saying.All in all, I really do like this computer. I wasn’t completely on board at first but after using it for a few days I am excited to spend the next few years gaming with this system.Before I close this out I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t say that yes this thing runs Baldur’s Gate 3 butter smooth at full resolution (2560×1440). Not a hiccup. And it looks soooo good :).If you made it this far, thank you for reading my review.

This thing is loud when plugged in
This laptop is very nice, I’ve had it for a while now and have had only 1 problem with it.-When you plug it in it cannot be booting up or running a program or that program will freeze or lag, or the boot process errors out and has to restart.But over all it works amazing I use it for path of exile, leauge, old diablo games, etc. and I can do full screens of mobs and effects and it is clear and crisp picture.- When running in gaming mode with it plugged in the fan is loud but you get use to it pretty quickly.- the sound on this is average the music can go to a decent level but it is a laptop after all so if you want boombastic sound I recommend headphones.- the battery life on this is great if your using for school or typing word documents the battery lasts for hours(5+) without plugging it in. Once you start using large high quality videos or games the battery does only last like 1-2 hrs depending what setting you have it on.-honestly everything else is great about the laptop I have no complaints besides the plug in thing I mentioned earlier. Great buy in my opinion and would buy again if I needed another one.

At first the performance was good and no overheating issues. But as the more you use it, it begins to overheat and fans running fast even only do simple browsing tasks. It’s not rare for the system to hang or freeze and cannot handle intensive task such as photoshop or video editing. The build quality and design is poor, screen often wobbles really bad. Defective keyboard backlit, the bottom row of the keyboard didn’t light up, only the top rows that lit up, mode switching sometimes stuck and cannot be changed. I predict this laptop will barely made throughout the year. With A$2400 dollars, you could get an RTX4070 and i7 14th HX processor which is way more powerful than this one.