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日本Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45) – Top 5 Pros and Cons
The Nitro 5 is the embodiment of sacrificing everything else for the sake of gaming performance. Acer doesn’t spend money on a new shell, using the same design features for a couple of years now.
All of the improvements are on the inside, with Zen 3 and RTX Ampere support. The laptop can come with the most powerful hardware in existence right now, including the Ryzen 9 5900HX and the RTX 3080. Can the laptop however keep up with these components, which will need extensive cooling and airflow in order to reach their potential?
Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45).
Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45): Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45)
1. Input devices
The keyboard here is very good for gaming and typing. It spans the entire keyboard deck, brings a NumPad, along with keycaps that have great size, including the Arrow keys. The unit has good key travel, clicky feedback, and either a Red or a 4-zone RGB backlight. The touchpad has a nice size and is accurate across the entire area.
2. Upgradeability
The upgradeability is also on point, bringing two RAM and two SSD slots. The SODIMM slots can fit up to 64GB of DDR4 memory in dual-channel mode. One of the M.2 slots can fit both PCIe and SATA drives, while the other can only fit PCIe drives. There is an additional 2.5-inch SATA drive bay, with the connectors coming in the box, which is neat from Acer.
Here is our teardown video, which shows how to access the battery, RAM, and SSD slots.
3. Display quality
While the panel doesn’t have good color coverage or accuracy, it is still great for gaming. The device sports three IPS panels with either 60Hz, 144Hz, or 165Hz. The 165Hz option also has a QHD resolution, while the other two bring Full HD resolution. We reviewed the 144Hz option, which had comfortable viewing angles, a max brightness of 302 nits in the middle of the screen, and 277 nits as an average for the whole area, with a maximum deviation of 14%. The contrast ratio is surprisingly high, at 1490:1.
The color coverage stands at 57% of the sRGB gamut.
The accuracy is also isn’t suitable for professional work, but if you just want to learn the basics of Photoshop or Illustrator, the notebook is a good base to start. The dE value doesn’t go below 3.1 and that is with our Design and Gaming profile applied (right). You can compare it to the stock settings (left).
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Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45) configurations with 15.6″ FHD IPS Innolux N156HRA-EA1 (CMN1521).
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Naast het ontvangen van efficiënte en gezondheidsvriendelijke profielen, steunt u door het kopen van LaptopMedia's producten ook de ontwikkeling van onze laboratoria, waar wij apparaten testen om de meest objectieve beoordelingen mogelijk te maken.
Office Work
Office Work moet vooral worden gebruikt door gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van stukken tekst, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel is gericht op het leveren van een betere helderheid en duidelijkheid door het behouden van een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren.
Ontwerp en spel
Dit profiel is gericht op ontwerpers die beroepsmatig met kleuren werken, en ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming brengt beeldschermen tot het uiterste en maakt ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standaard voor Web en HDTV, bij witpunt D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en ons lichaam aantast. Omdat het op maat is gemaakt voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel nauwkeurig te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.
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4. Battery life
The laptop comes with a mid-sized battery pack of 57.5Wh. Here, you get 9 hours and a half of Web browsing or 8 hours and 8 minutes of video playback. Now, we conduct the battery tests with Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.
1 reason NOT to buy the Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-45)
1. I/O
In terms of ports, you get a total of three USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports, a single USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2) port, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and HDMI and Ethernet connectors. Sadly, since the laptop uses AMD hardware, you lack Thunderbolt support, while a MicroSD card reader is also missing.
