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日本Acer Nitro V 15 (ANV15-51) review – successful symbiosis between the Aspire and the Nitro series
Design and construction
The new Nitro logo on the top of the lid and the colorful geometric lines hint that this is a gaming machine. The dimensions are normal for a 15-incher – 2.113 kilos of weight and 22.9 – 26.9 mm profile thickness.
You can open the lid with a single hand but sadly, it’s spongy and you can twist it easily. The situation with the base is much better – it’s solid with a few exceptions. We observed slight flexes in the zone below the Arrow keys and between the Space key and the touchpad.
The bezels around the panel are thin if you don’t count the lower one that houses the Nitro emblem. Above the panel is placed the 720p Web camera with Temporal Noise Reduction. Oh, wait, haven’t we seen this one already? Yep, when the laptop is opened, it looks very similar to the Acer Aspire 7 (A715-76G).
Even the keyboard is nearly the same. The main difference is that it has a dedicated NitroSence button. The key travel and the feedback are average but still decent enough for comfortable typing or gaming. The board has a NumPad section and the backlight glows in a single color which is expected.
This is one of the few Nitro machines that has a lever design. When the angle of the opening gets past the 90-degree mark, the bottom part of the lid raises the back of the chassis. This brings more fresh air to the cooling fans.
The touchpad is good and it has a built-in fingerprint reader in the top left corner. The pad has a smooth surface (but not the smoothest) that allows pretty nice accuracy.
The bottom plate houses a large ventilation grill that reveals a big chunk of the thermal system, four small rubber feet, two speaker cutouts, and a battery reset pinhole. The hot air is guided through two vents – one on the left and one on the back. Some of the heat during load reaches the lower part of the display.
Ports
On the left, you can see a power plug, a 2.5Gbps LAN port, an HDMI 2.1, two USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports (the former has a power-off charging function), and a Thunderbolt 4 connector with DisplayPort and charging capabilities. On the other side, we can spot a Kensington lock slot, a USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port, and an Audio combo jack. Yep, the I/O selection is (almost) the same as the one of the Acer Aspire 7 (A715-76G).
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