Acer Aspire 5 (A517-51) - Specs

  • LG LP173WF4-SPF5
  • Color accuracy  5.8  3.1
  • HDD/SSD
  • up to 1000GB SSD + up to 1000GB HDD
  • M.2 Slot
  • M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD slot (2280) 
  • RAM
  • up to 16GB
  • OS
  • Windows 10 Home, Linux
  • Battery
  • 48Wh, 4-cell, 3320 mAh, 4-cell, 3220 mAh, 4-cell, 4-cell Li-Ion (3220 mAh), 31Wh, 3-cell, 3220 mAh, 4-cell, Li-Ion, 48Wh, 48Wh, 3220 mAh, 3220 mAh, 4-cell, Li-Ion
  • Body material
  • Plastic / Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Plastic exterior, aluminum interior)
  • Dimensions
  • 423 x 290 x 28 mm (16.65" x 11.42" x 1.10")
  • Weight
  • 2.90 kg (6.4 lbs)
  • Ports and connectivity
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • 2x USB Type-A
  • 2.0
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • HDMI
  • Card reader
  • SD, SDHC, SDXC
  • Ethernet LAN
  • Gigabit LAN
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ac
  • Audio jack
  • Features
  • Fingerprint reader
  • optional
  • Web camera
  • HD 720p
  • Backlit keyboard
  • optional
  • Microphone
  • Optical drive
  • optional
  • Security Lock slot

All Acer Aspire 5 (A517-51) configurations

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Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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CPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the Acer Aspire 5 (A517-51) series.

Acer Aspire 5 (A517-51) in-depth review

The last few years, Acer is the OEM with one of the best value notebooks and it aims to uphold its reputation with the new Acer Aspire 5 lineup. The series delivers a variety of configurations packed in a decent 15-inch and 17-inch bodies without too much compromise in build quality. The most interesting models, however, are the ones with the latest 8th Generation Intel Core-U processors. Luckily, we now have the chance to test the Core i7-8550U processor that features not two but four compute cores while retaining the 15W TDP from the previous generation. We can expect considerably better[...]

Pros

  • Decent build with small exceptions
  • Best in class display - bright, vibrant and with wide sRGB coverage
  • No PWM at any brightness level
  • Good price/performance ratio
  • Impressive battery runtimes for a budget 17-inch laptop

Cons

  • Wobbly touchpad
  • No keyboard LED illumination
  • Just a few flexible areas - the lid and interior

Games you can play on this laptop series

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