Gaming laptop Acer Aspire V17 Nitro looks like a perfectly normal office DTR-notebook. His black-and-silver finish rather surprising little thick and quiet operation than inherent gaming models aggressive design. Insight comes at a time when you get to the technical parameters or run on the sample modern game – a quad Intel Core i7, discrete graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, as well as 16 GB of RAM and a hybrid SSD + HDD storage give this level of performance, which can confound a significant part of the dedicated gaming laptops. Well, as the cherry on top of cake stands an excellent 17.3-inch IPS-screen with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels and Anti-glare matte surface.

Appearance

As we have already mentioned, when we first met Acer Aspire V17 Nitro surprise minimum thickness – from 17-inch gaming notebook DTR-directional subconsciously expect almost twice the thickness. In fact, the height of the housing is not such a record, it is exactly one inch, but pointed and rounded front edge to the bottom of the sidewall give your laptop the same effect of lightness, thanks to which he “floats” above the surface of the table. For the record, passport size model up 423 × 293 × 25,4 mm, weight – about 3 kg.

The top cover of the notebook is finished in black matte plastic (soft-touch NIL) with a texture in the form of a fairly deep vertical lines. Dark panel dilutes the manufacturer’s logo and a thin silver panel near the hinges of the display unit. The panel is made of plastic coated with a metal, and decorated with embossed inscription Aspire V Nitro.

Lower body Acer Aspire V17 Nitro almost entirely made of softtach-black plastic. In contrast to the matte embossed cover material, the surface very quickly covered with fingerprints. However, this is unlikely to be a problem for the 17-inch laptop, the model which does not involve the use of too frequent movement from place to place.

On the bottom you can find the dynamics, moved closer to the front face and tiny hole to force a reboot of the device. Recently it took for the simple reason that the developers have decided to make your laptop battery removable. Wide strip perforation is used for air intake cooling system. Processor and a discrete graphics card provides two separate fan who can independently handle the dust using proprietary technology Acer DustDefender.

Tapered front edge Acer Aspire V17 Nitro contains only a couple of digital microphones. Almost the entire width of trimmed silver plastic back panel is occupied by radiators cooling system. On the left face imposed optical drive, a pair of USB 2.0 connectors, and a Kensington lock hole. On the right side you can find a full-sized card reader, combined audio port, two connectors USB 3.0, video output HDMI, foldout network RJ45, pair of indicators of activity and socket adapter.

Ergonomics

Cover Acer Aspire V17 Nitro can be easily opened with one hand despite the absence of recesses, canopies and other ancillary elements of a design.

The display unit rests on two hinges, finished all the same silver plastic “under the metal.” Screen bezel is made rather wide, especially in the lower part. It is made from the same brand softtach plastic as the lower part of the body, so that when you change the angle of the screen you will constantly leave their fingerprints.

The maximum opening angle of the display is considerably higher than average rates, it is about 155 degrees. At the same time throughout the range image is equally bright and juicy, as in this notebook uses high quality matte 17.3-inch IPS-matrix with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels.

Operating panel Acer Aspire V17 Nitro trimmed softtach-black plastic. In the area podladonnoy area around the keyboard and it is smooth, but near the bases of the display unit designers found it necessary to “refresh” his texture of horizontal stripes. There you can watch the silver block with an inscription Aspire V Nitro, which is approximately a centimeter towers over the rest of the surface. The power button is located on the top right corner of the keyboard, and a pair of indicators of activity that we saw in the study of the right sidewall of the housing looks its edges and on the operation panel. Both indicators are small enough to distract from the work even in a dark room and at the same time informative enough in case you need to assess the current state of the system (active or sleep mode, the process of charging the battery).

The layout of the operating panel Acer Aspire V17 Nitro typical for DTR-laptops – the developers have established a huge touchpad in the center of the main character block, resulting in terms of symmetry it is skewed to the left. All the useful area of the touchpad takes sensor, dedicated buttons are not provided, and the left and right click is performed by bending the lower corners of the panel. The choice of the touchpad surface chosen not entirely successful, as the tactile characteristics, it does not differ from podladonnoy panel. Given the fact that the touchpad is not placed exactly in the center, the user initially could not get a finger to the right place. Also note sloppy “handwritten” stroke Black Edition in the upper left corner, which in theory was to emphasize the exclusivity of this version of the laptop, but in practice it looks too unclear to him considered someone other than the owner of the work.

In addition to the availability of additional digital block island laptop keyboard backlight can boast the presence of deep red color. Adjust its brightness or turn on automatically fail, the backlight can be on or off completely, or to include a combination Fn + F9. By keyboard layout claims to be expected not found – all the buttons on their location, size and spacing of the standard buttons, arrows isolated unit for greater convenience.

Functionality

Laptop Acer Aspire V17 Nitro is built on a hardware platform Intel, augmented performance of discrete graphics from NVIDIA. In the present configuration uses a top quad-core Intel Core i7-4710HQ with a base frequency of 2.5 GHz and a maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz mode Turbo Boost. Responsible for processing graphics card of “gaming” GTX-series, in this case NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M with 2GB of dedicated video memory GDDR5.

Graphics

To install the memory available two SODIMM-slot, while depending on the configuration in the laptop is set from 8 to 16 GB of RAM. In hitting on the test sample used in the unusual amount of 6 GB, assembled from two strips 2 and 4 GB from different manufacturers, which undoubtedly affected the results of performance testing. Storage system in the most accessible configurations is a hard drive capacity of 500 GB or 1 TB, the more expensive it is supplemented modifications SSD 60, 128 or 256 GB.

The real highlight of the configuration Acer Aspire V17 Nitro stands 17.3-inch IPS-matrix LG LP173WF4-SPF1 with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, a matte finish and a maximum brightness of 300 cd / m2. Triplex removable battery 4600 mAh provides up to 4 hours in power saving mode and just over an hour in the game mode.

Results Acer Aspire V17

As a result, Acer Aspire V17 Nitro – this is a very successful large-format notebook universal orientation, which, depending on your wishes can equally well play a role and the role of the workstation and gaming PC. Performance is more than enough, excellent IPS-screen allows not to think about buying an external monitor, ergonomics and tactile sensations of use – with virtually no complaints. It remains to be noted that the Acer Aspire V17 Nitro has a more compact 15.6-inch counterparts, and the cost of the initial versions of the 17.3-inch model in Western markets starts at $ 1,199.

Liked

• high level of equipment and performance
• IPS-screen with Full HD resolution and a matte finish neblikuschim
• quiet and efficient cooling system with self-cleaning function Acer DustDefender
• convenient backlit keyboard, large touchpad
• slim body, nice materials, classic design

Do not like it

• some soiled surfaces
• short battery life under load

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Here it is, one of the few manufacturers that are not marking time in one place. In the Acer does not only appear updated models, but also the family. For example, in 2014 we had the honor to know about the origin of the market Aspire V Nitro, first presented as part of the annual international exhibition Gamescom 2014. In this series, you can see the high-new items, which include filling in discrete graphics. Nitro-laptops have IPS-display with a diagonal of 15 or 17 inches and a resolution of Full HD, stylish appearance, metal body and good power, which is enough for today’s problems. With one of these devices, we are going to meet. Acer Aspire VN7-791G-57RE – an elegant device that actually has high performance. In the depths of this laptop is hidden modern filling and excellent functionality, which is fully capable to press many competitors. The price of this laptop for some may be high, because it goes up to $ 1570. Let’s see, maybe, it is entirely justified.

Design – Acer Aspire VN7

To say that the aggressive design of the notebook, it would be wrong, because the body Acer Aspire VN7-791G completely devoid of the typical elements geymerskogo device – chopped panels excessive massiveness. On the contrary, he looks pretty thin, pointed, in general, just not say that in front of you a real monster, capable to deal with many modern games. Laptop lid pleasant to the touch, is used to cover nanopechatnym lithographic pattern to the same pressure and twisting it very well receptive.

The bottom of the device is a solid surface on which provides long ventilation grille, dynamics and legs to stabilize the notebook. Furthermore, the lower panel can be seen hole to discharge and reset.

By the way, the build quality is pretty decent device, gaps, irregularities and other errors are absent body. As for colors, it consists solely of classic colors: silver and black. The latter is clearly predominant, as evidenced by the name of the series Black Edition.

Like many other gaming notebooks manufacturing companies, Acer Aspire VN7-791G-57RE was no exception in terms of weight. Its rate is 3 kg, which is certainly not conducive to frequently carry from place to place. Rather, it is a stationary version. By the way, the size of the housing mm 423h293h25.4 quite normal for a 17-inch device.

Display, sound, webcam

Laptop adorns 17.3-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 16: 9. And its matte finish, making the screen practically invisible reflection. Reduce glare and allows proprietary technology Acer ComfyView, through which to view or work behind the display will become more comfortable and minimal strain on the eyes. To say that the laptop screen is too bright and the colors are transmitted perfectly, does not, however, for entertainment and this is enough. However, there is a good contrast, so the image is detailed and quite realistic.

Edge gaming notebook how important good acoustics, to encourage total immersion in what is happening. Therefore, the Acer Aspire VN7-791G-57RE has four speakers and technology support Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater. Depending on the configuration will achieve a very high quality, in-depth and balanced sound that perfectly complements the gameplay or the plot of the film.

The product has a webcam Acer Crystal Eye 1.3 megapixel resolution. It will allow to communicate in Skype, participate in video conferences. Is that the photos will not be able to please the highest quality, most image will lack sharpness.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The laptop is equipped with a full-size keyboard Acer FineTip, which also has a separate numeric keypad. Almost all of the buttons are large size, are reduced only arrows. With respect to labeling, it is made white. On a black surface key all characters can be seen very clearly. By the way, the function buttons contain notations and blue, which is very convenient.

The keyboard layout is standard, so get used to something new or do not have to be reconstructed. All the keys are in the keyboard area, beyond just the power button. It would seem that all the usual, however, there is something that can not help Please note: backlight. She turns off or on using the [Fn] + [F9] and lit a spectacular bright red.

Touchpad Aspire V17 Nitro is not centered, and shifted to the left. It’s pretty big and besknopochny, so plenty of room for positioning. In addition, the area has a good touch sensitivity, and therefore do not have to repeat twice the same team. Of multi-touch gestures can be noted the implementation of the vertical and horizontal scrolling and zooming. You can turn off the touchpad keyboard shortcut [Fn] + [F7].

Performance

Acer Aspire VN7-791G-57RE NX.MQRER.003 works with the operating system Windows 8.1 64-bit version. As the processor chip is selected fourth-generation Intel Core i5-4210H with a clock speed of 2.9 GHz and 3 MB cache in the third level. This dual-core CPU is built on 22-nm technology, it supports the technology Turbo Boost, thanks to which the frequency can be increased up to 3.5 GHz. Energy-efficient processor is different, but in performance it at a height that allows you to cope well with demanding programs. Incidentally, this configuration is not very strong, because there are models with more efficient quad-chip Intel Core i7-4710HQ.

Intel Core i5-4210H complemented by integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics 4600. It’s a pretty good option to handle graphics in the performance of not only the simplest of tasks. Accelerator equipped with 20 unified shaders, supports DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 4.0, perfectly decodes the video. However, for games and other serious visual computing provides a powerful discrete graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M. Its own memory is 2 GB standard GDDR5. For games it is generally a great option, because modern toys will go to high or maximum settings to the native resolution of the display. For example, in The Crew, Civilization: Beyond Earth or Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2014 will be playing with a frequency above 30 fps on high. In Alien: Isolation – all on ultra. It is worth noting that during the game the notebook heats up, so it is better not to keep on your lap.

RAM in the laptop has a capacity of 8 GB and standard DDR3L. Strap is one memory slot, and the second is blank. This makes it possible to add capacity, increasing it to 16 GB. Of course, even the established benchmark volume more than enough for today’s applications.

As for the data warehouse, in this notebook has a 1 TB hard drive at 5400 rpm and 8 GB SSD-cache. If the user expects to create a multimedia collection, the disk space will be enough. Parallel to this, you will see how fast loading system and various applications.

Ports and Communications

The right side of the laptop quite full. It contains a variety of ports, including two USB 3.0, HDMI, card reader that reads SD / SDHC card formats as well as socket for recharging, RJ-45, and the combined audio jack for headphones and microphone.

On the opposite side of the device, you can see a couple of USB, but already the standard 2.0, Kensington lock slot, and a built-in optical drive DVD Super Multi Double Layer. In general, one can say that the ports and connectors in the laptop a lot, or that they are quite diverse.

Front and rear ports and connectors are absent.

Among the wireless communications can be seen dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a / b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.0.

Battery

Lithium-ion battery in the laptop has a total of three sections, and the capacity 4450 mAh (52.5 Wh). Of course, I would like to have in a laptop battery “more feasible”, but it certainly would affect the weight of the device. In our case, the performance stuffing does not reach a high autonomy. For example, when surfing the web already discharged laptop for four hours while watching video – three. But the play on the Acer Aspire V Nitro VN7-791G without charge from the network can be no more than two hours.

Conclusion

Perhaps in this laptop, you will see for yourself the perfect choice for leisure. He has something to appeal to many users. For example, high-performance graphics, the presence of powerful acoustics, IPS-display with Full HD-resolution. Of course, to compare Acer Aspire VN7-791G-57RE with gaming monsters like ASUS ROG or MSI Dominator Pro is not necessary, however, he clearly and confidently takes place between an excellent multimedia laptop and a full-fledged gaming laptop.

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