Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57-79TD Gaming Laptop | Intel Core i7-11800H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU | 15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 8GB DDR4 | 512

I'd really love to give this an excellent review but there is one essential feature that they seriously need to address... the volume!This computer is listed as a gaming computer... so where's the sound output?There are many people and videos that have talked about this flaw with this particular model number. I'm pretty tech-savvy so when I go into every sound app, app-related instrument panel, control panel, driver setup, YouTube help videos, Reddit forums, and still can't hear the sound even when I have it turned all the way up, that is a problem for me.It's pretty sad that when I use this computer, I have to shut all of my windows and turn off my dryer in order to hear this computer kick out some sound.I looked for a long time for something I could afford ... MoreI'd really love to give this an excellent review but there is one essential feature that they seriously need to address... the volume!This computer is listed as a gaming computer... so where's the sound output?There are many people and videos that have talked about this flaw with this particular model number. I'm pretty tech-savvy so when I go into every sound app, app-related instrument panel, control panel, driver setup, YouTube help videos, Reddit forums, and still can't hear the sound even when I have it turned all the way up, that is a problem for me.It's pretty sad that when I use this computer, I have to shut all of my windows and turn off my dryer in order to hear this computer kick out some sound.I looked for a long time for something I could afford that had the features that I needed...I really like the fact that it has an extra connection for another internal SSD (hard drive), it has a light-up keyboard which is great because my vision isn't so great, it has a num-pad for quickly keying in figures, and some other basic essentials that are necessary before I'll consider buying a laptop.It really is too bad that the one thing that it lacks is such an important element. I'm a digital content creator, so if I can't hear my own voice on the videos I create, that leaves me pretty disgruntled (especially for a "gaming" machine).By the time I opened this up and found this out, it was too late to return it. I would have opened it as soon as I bought it but life got in the way for a while.I did buy some external speakers which allow me to hear, but that defeats the purpose of having a laptop... portability just took a dive out the window because it's hard to put external speakers in my back pocket.

I got this laptop (Bought at start of December) generally for gaming (Warzone/CP2077/Darktide) & Blender. started underperforming at 60-80 fps even with fans on max & graphics low. The battery life gets really short (1&1/2hrs) when you use it for gaming or hard renders on Blender, so I had to keep it plugged in all the time. Battery gets really hot too. Windows 11 has tons of glitches & bugs making performance on the laptop very poor, but manageable with a few tweaks to the system & third party apps. Overall the laptop held up pretty well other than the IO/heat-ups & battery issues it was decent at basic web browsing & streaming (battery life 3-4 hrs at 50 brightness). The build is mostly plastic. Generally for low res games & web browsing you can find a cheaper ... MoreI got this laptop (Bought at start of December) generally for gaming (Warzone/CP2077/Darktide) & Blender. started underperforming at 60-80 fps even with fans on max & graphics low. The battery life gets really short (1&1/2hrs) when you use it for gaming or hard renders on Blender, so I had to keep it plugged in all the time. Battery gets really hot too. Windows 11 has tons of glitches & bugs making performance on the laptop very poor, but manageable with a few tweaks to the system & third party apps. Overall the laptop held up pretty well other than the IO/heat-ups & battery issues it was decent at basic web browsing & streaming (battery life 3-4 hrs at 50 brightness). The build is mostly plastic. Generally for low res games & web browsing you can find a cheaper options. Overall for the price, quality, & performance it just isn't worth it in my opinion. bit of a rant but Cheers :)

Hinge completely Broke after a couple years along with the screen plate that attached to the hinge. But the problem started long before that when there was just a little "hitch" when opening the laptop. The warranty has since passed and from what I hear-- according to this review I have copied and pasted from reddit (photos are mine)-- I am not the only one. Now I have to source some parts to fix the problem with a otherwise perfectly usable gaming computer. This is a blaring design flaw.Reddit review (https://www.reddit.com/r/AcerOfficial/comments/krxjn6/acer_has_a_widespread_hinge_problem_with_their/)"TLDR at bottomAcer evidently has garbage hinges. They can't possibly be testing these things thoroughly, and they definitely aren't putting much effort towards ... MoreHinge completely Broke after a couple years along with the screen plate that attached to the hinge. But the problem started long before that when there was just a little "hitch" when opening the laptop. The warranty has since passed and from what I hear-- according to this review I have copied and pasted from reddit (photos are mine)-- I am not the only one. Now I have to source some parts to fix the problem with a otherwise perfectly usable gaming computer. This is a blaring design flaw.Reddit review (https://www.reddit.com/r/AcerOfficial/comments/krxjn6/acer_has_a_widespread_hinge_problem_with_their/)"TLDR at bottomAcer evidently has garbage hinges. They can't possibly be testing these things thoroughly, and they definitely aren't putting much effort towards fixing them. Type "acer hinge problem" into google and look around for a bit.I'm posting this because my Acer Nitro 5 just broke (Apparently it had been broken for a while). The hinges attach to the lid and are screwed into the back of the lid. Well, the place that the hinges screw into broke. The part alone is a 50 dollar part. The repair would be 300 ish. This isn't my picture, but since it's happened to tons of people this picture was easy to find.Notice how the screws ripped the plastic out with them? The only way to fix this is to replace the entire lid. Maybe Acer support will have some help?"I'm sorry to hear that you're running into hinge issues. I can certainly understand the frustration, however, I can assure you that a far larger portion of Acer laptops do not experience this. A lot of research and development go into the hinge design of our products to minimize any issues. Hinges have been failing on clam-shell notebooks for as long as they've been built, and that's not just related to Acer, a quick google search replacing Acer for another manufacture is sure to produce the same or similar results. Unfortunately, the hinge is the weak point in a folding process that also has to be a hollow enough to allow for wires to pass through and not wrinkle them. They take all the stress created when opening the device, but it also has to be capable of moving to allow anyone (think children) to open it." - This is pretty much the response you'll get from acer if you ask for help. Maybe the have a point about this being a common problem."I can assure you that a far larger portion of Acer laptops do not experience this." Well these one's do Acer Manny, these one's do.That's why I did exactly what "Acer Manny" said. I typed "Acer hinge problem" into google. Then I typed "Apple hinge problem" "Asus hinge problem" "dell hinge problem" and "HP hinge problem". Guess what? Acer is the only one. Actually, HP had some hinge problems, back in 2008, but they at least issued a recall. The google searches for Apple, Dell, and Asus had minimal results of customers complaining about broken hinges or denied warranties. Acer's search did.So.... it's not normal for a laptop to have busted hinges from normal use after one year? Start taking notes acer, these other companies have it all figured out.Here's some search results for the nitro 5 in particularhttps://community.acer.com/en/discussion/600916/nitro-5-hinge-problem-an515-52Nitro 5 hinge broken — Acer CommunityNitro 5 Hinge problem - AN515-42. — Acer Communityhttps://community.acer.com/en/discussion/554334/acer-nitro-5-coming-apart-at-left-lower-hinge-causing-issues-with-monitor-is-this-under-warrantyhttps://linustechtips.com/topic/1257901-acer-nitro-5-3-years-of-savings-down-the-drain/this ones a fix lol:https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwaregore/comments/fjrtu8/fixed_my_broken_acer_nitro_5_hinge_the_chaotic/Of course, there's no way they don't know of this right? They'd have to be blind to have not realized by now that people aren't happy. But still no recall. They've had recalls for overheating on their acer predator models though, so where's the recall for the acer nitro 5? Surely a hinge is a lot simpler concept than a cooling system?In reality, they most definitely realized this. They are probably making bank off of repair and replacement costs too.TLDR/final message:To any Acer representative who may be reading this:Please take this as far up the command chain as you can. Your consumers are not happy. This IS NOT an issue caused by a user, this is an issue caused by a manufacturing defect and a lack of testing. When things break from normal use, especially when they break the exact same way for lots of people, there is something wrong with the model. Stop denying warranties, and give us a recall.To any redditor that made it this far:Until a recall is issued for this, I wouldn't buy any laptops from Acer. Their hinges are flawed on multiple models and they make excuses like a 5 year old who just broke the tv. Based off of the links above they probably won't honor a warranty either. Maybe, if you care try to get the news out and maybe acer will do something about it. copy and paste everything I wrote and put it anywhere you want if you'd like.