Acer Aspire V17 Nitro (17.3-inch, 2017) Series

performance

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

100% of the reviews on Amazon.ca give this product a positive rating.

Built-in eye tracking. Sturdy keyboard.

Flimsy, small touchpad. Matte screen dulls colors and blurs some windows.

Bottom Line: Along with support for eye-tracking technology, the 17-inch Acer Aspire V17 Nitro gaming laptop is a good value for the components you get.

Strong performance; Sleek, professional look; Loud, balanced speakers; Comfortable keyboard ; Too much bloatware; Dimmer-than-average screen ; The Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black Edition is a powerful gaming laptop that looks good anywhere you take it.

Too much bloatware; Dimmer-than-average screen ; The Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black Edition is a powerful gaming laptop that looks good anywhere you take it.

The Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black Edition is a powerful gaming laptop that looks good anywhere you take it.

bright, matte display with high contrast ratio ; decent input devices ; NVMe SSD ; free SATA slot ; Thunderbolt 3

no maintenance flap ; slow SD card reader

Acer’s 4k gaming notebook is capable of running all current games smoothly. However, the full 4k resolution is all but unplayable with most games because of its entry-level high-performance GPU. However, settling for FHD resolution results in a smooth...

plain yet functional design ; rigid case ; Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 with 6 GB VRAM ; SSD + HDD ; decent input devices ; USB Type-C + Thunderbolt ; good battery life ; low power consumption ; well thought-out port distribution ; very quiet (even under...

no maintenance flaps ; key labels can be hard to read ; awkward fingerprint-reader positioning ; very slow SD-card reader

All things considered the Nitro - when viewed from a gaming perspective - performed very well. Acer effectively refutes the bias that Core i5 processors are not suitable for gaming and proves that the graphics card is much more important. The Intel...

non-glare IPS display ; FHD resolution ; free m.2 slot ; suitable for gaming ; Thunderbolt 3

no maintenance flaps ; mediocre battery life ; slow SD card reader

The Aspire VN7-793G-5811 is a relatively affordable 17.3-inch entry-level model into the world of Acer’s Nitro series. While its price of roughly 1100 Euros ($1200) does not get you a Core i7 CPU just yet, you do get a Core i5-7300HQ instead, which...

There it is, the object of desire. The refreshed Acer Aspire Nitro VN7-793G uses the familiar design, and there should not be any surprises in terms of the display, either. The big story is the hardware equipment, because Acer offers a number of new...

Low waste heat, Still very good input devices, Matte IPS panel, Better contrast than its predecessor, Good gaming performance

Fan gets loud early, Stability of the big case, Partly difficult to maintain

As in our previous test, Acer's Aspire V 17 Nitro is impressive, and proved to be a solid notebook in all aspects for 1370 Euros (~$1540). Compared with the predecessor, the important changes are the CPU with higher clock, and the new NVIDIA GeForce...

Stylish, slim casing, Bright, high-contrast screen with matte surface, Plenty of computing power, Gaming capable, Decent input devices, Keyboard backlight

No maintenance cover, High power consumption

Acer's Aspire VN7-791G-50MV provides its owner with plenty of computing power, and can even run computer games. The laptop usually runs quietly and heats up moderately at most. Furthermore, it has decent input devices, and the screen is compelling....

Big model variety, Comparatively light and thin, Nice design with interesting surfaces, Clean build quality, Dual-band WLAN, Ergonomic and nicely illuminated keyboard..., ...that can unfortunately be pushed in, Excellent touchpad, Overall convenient...

Case stability not perfect, Bad maintainability, Battery very hard to access, Memory slots deep inside the case, Confusing statements about the manufacturers' warranty, Contrast could be higher, Tricky to use the equalizer, Mediocre battery runtimes

What a shame, we would have liked to see a very good rating for the Acer Aspire V 17 Nitro Black Edition (VN7-791G-759Q), but it just misses it (amongst others) because of the very complicated accessibility of the battery and the other components that...