Top 5 Reasons to BUY or NOT buy the Acer Nitro 5 (AN517-51)
The Acer Nitro 5 (AN517-51) is a nice gaming device – decent hardware combined with a good screen and nice design. That’s why the Nitro series are so popular these days. If you haven’t checked our review regarding the Acer Nitro 5 (AN517-51) you can find it here.
We will present to you our Top 5 picks about this machine.
You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/acer-nitro-5-an517-51/
4 reasons to BUY the Acer Nitro 5 (AN517-51)
1. The price
The price tag is an honest one. You will get a very good machine for your money, one of the best deals for a 17.3-incher.
2. Upgradability
Upgradability is fine, inside you have everything you can expect from a modern gaming laptop – the max supported memory size is 32GB in total, it has two M.2 PCIe slots and 2.5″ SATA drive slot.
3. The screen
The screen (BOE NV173FHM-N46 BOE0839) is an IPS one with a good contrast ratio (1030:1), comfortable viewing angles, and it covers 92% of the sRGB. In addition, the display is PWM-free.

4. Big arrow keys
Yes, big arrow keys are a rare thing to find nowadays. Most of the notebooks have small arrow keys that are half-sized and if you want to use them you will always press two arrows at the same time because they are really close-placed. The case with our Nitro machine isn’t like that – we have full-sized big arrow keys that are comfortable for racing games.
1 reason not to BUY the Acer Nitro 5 (AN517-51)
1. Small NumberPad keys
It’s hard to find some cons about this gaming notebook. Well, ok, the NumberPad keys are small and uncomfortable to press.






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