Acer Aspire 5 (A515-58M) review – snappy device with very good display and low price

Disassembly, upgrade options, and maintenance

For removing the bottom panel, you have to unscrew 11 Phillips-head screws. Then, you can pry the plate with a plastic tool starting from one of the top two corners.

The battery is a 53Wh unit. Before taking it out, you have to detach the connector from the motherboard. After that, you have to unscrew just two Phillips-head screws. The capacity is enough for 12 hours and 30 minutes of Web browsing, or 8 hours and 20 minutes of video playback. Good!

On the inside of the bottom plate, there is a dedicated socket for the battery that keeps the unit in place.

This laptop has a soldered memory. However, the maximum amount of 32GB of LPDDR5-4800MHz RAM in dual-channel sounds plenty.

For storage, there is just one M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.

The cooling looks modest. It comprises one fan, two heat pipes, one heat sink, and a heat spreader.

Author: Nikolay Palaozov

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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Alexander Ohl

2 years ago

Bewertung für Acer Notebook – Aspire A515-58M-77DY (gekauft im 7. März 2024) Leider kann ich dieses Acer Notebook nicht empfehlen. Schon beim Kauf in Malaysia wurde ich falsch beraten. Mir wurde versichert, dass das Gerät leistungsstark und zuverlässig sei, doch meine Erfahrungen sind anders. Das größte Problem ist die Hitzeentwicklung. Das Notebook wird sehr schnell sehr warm, vor allem auf der linken Seite, wo die Festplatte sich befindet. Ich war überrascht, dass eine Festplatte so viel Wärme produzieren kann. Diese Hitzeentwicklung beeinträchtigt die Nutzung erheblich, da es unangenehm wird, das Notebook auf dem Schoß zu haben oder auch auf dem… Read more »

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