Acer Aspire E 15, 15.6 Full HD, Intel Core i5, NVIDIA 940MX, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10, E5-575G-53VG
- 6th Generation Intel Core i5-6200U Processor (Up to 2.8GHz)
- 15.6-inch Full HD Display, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2GB DDR5 VRAM
- 8GB DDR4 Memory, 256GB SSD
- Windows 10 Home; Backlit Keyboard
- Up to 12-hours Battery Life; 6-cell Li-Ion (2800 mAh) Battery
Acer Aspire E5-575G-53VG comes with these high level specs: 6th Generation Intel Core i5-6200U Processor 2.3GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.8GHz, Windows 10 Home, 15.6″ Full HD Widescreen LED-backlit Display, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2GB of dedicated DDR5 VRAM, 8GB DDR4 Memory, 256GB SSD, 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive (M-DISC enabled), Secure Digital (SD) card reader, Acer True Harmony High-Performance Sound System, 802.11ac Wi-Fi featuring MU-MIMO technology, Bluetooth 4.1, Gigabit Ethernet, HD Webcam (1280 x 720) supporting High Dynamic Range (HDR), 1 – USB 3.1 (Type C) port, 2 – USB 3.0 ports (1 with power-off charging), 1 – USB 2.0 Port, 1 – HDMI Port, 6-cell Li-ion Battery (2800 mAh), Up to 12-hours Battery Life, 5.27 lbs. | 2.39 kg (system unit only) (NX.GHGAA.001)
List Price: $ 499.90
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426 of 430 people found the following review helpful
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After a lot of researching, I chose this laptop and am very happy with the purchase. So after some searching, I narrowed down my options to the following 3 new releases – While the HP option is cheaper, 128GB could fill up pretty soon, especially considering I plan to dual-boot Ubuntu and have lot of software I need for work. So I ruled that one out. Now, a quick rundown on different features below – Build – This is not aluminium like the Mac, nor is this Dell XPS or Lenovo Thinkpad sturdy. It is black plastic but at the same time, it does not feel like a cheap build either. For the price, it is really good, I like the grip. Not too heavy and it’s thinner than it appears in the photos. A customer review for the ASUS laptop mentioned that the plastic felt fragile, this reinforced my decision to go with the Acer model. RAM – 1x8GB DDR4 is fit in this model while the other slot is empty, so you can fit in another 8GB card, make it 16 if you want. Although, for everyday computing 8GB is plentiful. Plus it has 2GB of GDDR5 memory for graphics Storage – 256GB SSD is so worth it. SSD makes a whole lot of difference to speed, app load times and boot times. Your PC feels so fast, you’d never want to go back to the regular hard drive again. Also, I found out recently that the SSD in this is an M.2 SSD (Samsung MZNLN256HCHP) and the other hard disk slot is empty. So basically you could buy a 1TB hard drive for like less than and bump up the storage while still having Windows and all your software run from the SSD << This feature makes me like the laptop all the more. Processor – 6200U is a dual core, 4 thread CPU. This is less powerful than the 6300HQ i5s found in the more expensive gaming laptops but totally good enough for everyday computing and it consumes much lesser power (<15W) which makes it good for the battery. A single core Geekbench mark of about 2.7k and multi-core benchmark of 5.8k (attached image) is of-course not awesome or anything but more than enough for regular use. I’m also sharing the octane benchmark score – 28k. GPU – As mentioned above, GTX 940MX offers between 1.5 and 2x improvement in graphics horsepower and is a low power card, so it wouldn’t drain your battery. Definitely a nice to have (benchmarks comparing it with integrated graphics attached). Also, if you own an Nvidia Sheild device, please note that 940MX does NOT support Gamestream. Screen – Pretty good I’d say, 15.6 inch is perfect for working on the couch. It’s not IPS, so viewing angles might not be too high but pretty good nevertheless plus it’s got the anti-glare finish. I like it, works for me. Keyboard and touchpad – I was a little unsure how comfortable this will be, I never liked the extra number pad in laptops which shifts the center towards the left making it all weird to type. But surprisingly, it doesn’t seem much of a problem in this laptop. Typing is quite comfortable, contrary to what I expected. Backlit keyboard is a bonus. The touchpad works fine, however sweaty hands make it a little un-smooth. Battery – Excellent battery life. Acer claims 12 hours, but I…
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Customer Video Review Length:: 4:48 Mins Purchased as a high school graduation gift for my daughter who is headed off to college in the fall, this Acer Aspire E ticked off all of the specs on her wishlist and all the ‘gotta haves’ on mine. Being a techy sort of person I care what’s under the hood. I have owned many laptops using operating systems from Windows XP to the current 10, on hardware from all the top brands. Acer impressed me with their Acer Chromebook 15 CB5-571-C1DZ (15.6-Inch Full HD IPS, 4GB RAM, 16GB SSD) so much I’ve purchased them as gifts for both my husband and step-father. Now with this Aspire E, I may just have found my own new ‘favorite’ brand for the sub-six hundred price range. For this purchase I wanted the laptop to have an Intel processor versus an AMD because in my experience they run cooler. I wanted that processor to be at least an i5, the latest generation if possible. I also wanted at least 8GB of system memory that was expandable if needed. A large hard drive wasn’t as important to me as the speed of that drive, thus a SSD was preferable, and I wanted at least 5 hours of battery life. A backlit keyboard and HD screen were also important, but I was prepared to forgo them if the price went over my target price of seven-hundred. My daughter’s wishes tended to be less techy, but just as important in our search for the best laptop to meet her needs for the next four years. She has previously used a lower-end (about three-hundred when new) HP laptop for the past four years; one motherboard replacement covered under Square Trade warranty, and a Chromebook with an 11” screen. In this purchase she wanted a laptop that included a 15.6” screen, a DVD drive (I tried to talk her out of that one because I never use them anymore, but she wanted one to burn CDs and DVDs), and an Ethernet jack; the dorms are older and have wired internet where she’ll be attending college. So after much searching I happened to notice this newly released Acer Aspire E 15. The price on Amazon is the same as on the Acer website, and those are the only two places I saw it. When I noticed the incredible specs and how well they matched both our desires for this purchase, I was thrilled! The price for this laptop is so low by comparison to others with similar specs (particularly with an SSD and such stellar battery life – estimated at 12 hours), that I had to bite on this one. I also purchased a 3 year Square Trade drops, spills, etc… warranty for another one-ten that I’ve found to be cheap insurance on these purchases, especially when the owner is a teen. I will be adding the Microsoft Office Suite (eighty bucks for 4 years with an EDU email address) and using this laptop for only a short time before giving it to my daughter these are my impressions. Hope you find them helpful when deciding if this laptop is for you. The bottom line from my point of view is that the low price for great specs with a quality build is incredible. I’ve found no other laptop available on the market that matches up to this Acer when you compare the price to the perks! ——————————————————————— What I like about the Acer Aspire E15: + It’s whisper quiet! I could barely tell this laptop was even on; no fan noise, and didn’t get hot at all. + Beautiful HD (1920×1080, 16:9 ratio) 15.6” screen – movies and games look great. It’s a matte finish so there’s really no glare or reflection off the screen in bright light. Viewing straight on is best, offering a sharp, bright picture whether you’re viewing media or text. + 256 SSD Flash Memory is the best! Really noticeable speed bump when booting the PC and going from one application to another. + NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2GB of dedicated DDR5 VRAM – a dedicated graphics card in a laptop at this low price point is unheard of! + 6-cell 2800 mAh battery – lots of battery life if you use BATTERY SAVER function. Brightness adjustments will affect the battery life you get with all laptops – including this one. + Precision Touchpad works better than expected. It might even be too responsive for some, but you can tweak that in Settings within Windows 10. Pinch, flick, and swirl for intuitive navigation – similar to using an iOS device. + Latest in technology (1) USB 3.1 port – (Type C) not found on all laptops. It’s a connector that is ‘ the size of current USB connectors and you can’t screw up plugging in the cable as it doesn’t matter which side is up. A great way to charge all kinds of things; smartphones, battery back-ups,…
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Great Job on this one Acer!,
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Spent 14 hours researching what computer I was going to buy before I stumbled upon this one. I think it is the perfect balance between the power and value that you really want from a computer. It really seems to have all of the most basic features you really would like to have in a computer: 4 processing threads running at a decent speed, an SSD of decent size for fast boot times, sufficient memory (4GB generally works, but this has 8GB) , a DVD burner, a full HD screen, a 12 hour battery life (haven’t tested that yet, but it seems likely to approach that if you put it in the "battery saver" mode, multiple USB3 ports, bluetooth, a LAN adapter, both VGA and HDMI connectors that support multiple monitors, and what I consider to be very nice extra bonuses include a backlit keyboard and a decent nVidia graphics chip embedded. The only thing this computer is missing that higher end computers have these days is a touch screen display (but who cares? I don’t like finger prints on my screen anyway…) and a lot of hard disk space. For an extra bucks though you can buy a fairly fast 128GB USB 3.0 thumb drive that increases the size of your drive to something that would last you a year or two before you run of space, or you could just use cloud storage (slow), or buy a micro SD card and use that (medium) , or buy an external drive (medium) for storing all your videos and music. Connect to it over the network even.
Anyway, the point is, I’m really happy with this computer so far. I have only had it for a few days, but I’ve tested it under some heavy programs and it seems to be running smoothly. I also recognize that Acer products often have some bad reviews and in the past I have tended to avoid them, but I really think they did a great job with this one. A++ Acer! And that’s my two cents… |
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The best windows laptop for a $600 budget, go for it!,
After a lot of researching, I chose this laptop and am very happy with the purchase.
Received it yesterday, and I’ve put this laptop to a whole lot of scrutiny and have barely managed to find flaws.
This is most likely going to be a lengthy review, although it should hopefully cover all the important things.
So after some searching, I narrowed down my options to the following 3 new releases –
1. HP 15-ay013nr – HP 15-ay013nr 15.6″ Full-HD Laptop (6th Generation Core i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) with Windows 10
2. ASUS F556UA-AS54 ASUS F556UA-AS54 15.6-inch Full-HD Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) with Windows 10, Icicle Gold
3. This guy
While the HP option is cheaper, 128GB could fill up pretty soon, especially considering I plan to dual-boot Ubuntu and have lot of software I need for work. So I ruled that one out.
The ASUS one comes really close in config to this one with the one major difference being that this fellow has a dedicated graphics card and the ASUS one doesn’t. But how major is that? I knew GTX 940MX is not even close in performance to GTX 960 and above but believed it should still be faster than the integrated Intel HD 520 and since it is about 15-30 W TDP, it shouldn’t be too heavy on the battery either. Couldn’t find benchmarks online comparing Intel HD 520 and GTX 940MX head to head, so I’m sharing some GFXbench benchmarks that I ran to compare the two. Basically 1.5x to 2x improvement in graphics horsepower. Not a lot, but better than 1x, so games should be slightly better 🙂
Plus I was interested in learning some parallel computing with CUDA considering all the buzz around deep learning. And thus, Acer won!
Hopefully this was useful information if you were wondering how much extra this dedicated graphics card brings to the table.
Now, a quick rundown on different features below –
Build – This is not aluminium like the Mac, nor is this Dell XPS or Lenovo Thinkpad sturdy. It is black plastic but at the same time, it does not feel like a cheap build either. For the price, it is really good, I like the grip. Not too heavy and it’s thinner than it appears in the photos. A customer review for the ASUS laptop mentioned that the plastic felt fragile, this reinforced my decision to go with the Acer model.
RAM – 1x8GB DDR4 is fit in this model while the other slot is empty, so you can fit in another 8GB card, make it 16 if you want. Although, for everyday computing 8GB is plentiful. Plus it has 2GB of GDDR5 memory for graphics
Storage – 256GB SSD is so worth it. SSD makes a whole lot of difference to speed, app load times and boot times. Your PC feels so fast, you’d never want to go back to the regular hard drive again. Also, I found out recently that the SSD in this is an M.2 SSD (Samsung MZNLN256HCHP) and the other hard disk slot is empty. So basically you could buy a 1TB hard drive for like less than $75 and bump up the storage while still having Windows and all your software run from the SSD << This feature makes me like the laptop all the more.
Processor – 6200U is a dual core, 4 thread CPU. This is less powerful than the 6300HQ i5s found in the more expensive gaming laptops but totally good enough for everyday computing and it consumes much lesser power (<15W) which makes it good for the battery. A single core Geekbench mark of about 2.7k and multi-core benchmark of 5.8k (attached image) is of-course not awesome or anything but more than enough for regular use. I’m also sharing the octane benchmark score – 28k.
GPU – As mentioned above, GTX 940MX offers between 1.5 and 2x improvement in graphics horsepower and is a low power card, so it wouldn’t drain your battery. Definitely a nice to have (benchmarks comparing it with integrated graphics attached). Also, if you own an Nvidia Sheild device, please note that 940MX does NOT support Gamestream.
Screen – Pretty good I’d say, 15.6 inch is perfect for working on the couch. It’s not IPS, so viewing angles might not be too high but pretty good nevertheless plus it’s got the anti-glare finish. I like it, works for me.
Keyboard and touchpad – I was a little unsure how comfortable this will be, I never liked the extra number pad in laptops which shifts the center towards the left making it all weird to type. But surprisingly, it doesn’t seem much of a problem in this laptop. Typing is quite comfortable, contrary to what I expected. Backlit keyboard is a bonus. The touchpad works fine, however sweaty hands make it a little un-smooth.
Battery – Excellent battery life. Acer claims 12 hours, but I…
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Customer Video Review Length:: 4:48 Mins
Purchased as a high school graduation gift for my daughter who is headed off to college in the fall, this Acer Aspire E ticked off all of the specs on her wishlist and all the ‘gotta haves’ on mine.
Being a techy sort of person I care what’s under the hood. I have owned many laptops using operating systems from Windows XP to the current 10, on hardware from all the top brands. Acer impressed me with their Acer Chromebook 15 CB5-571-C1DZ (15.6-Inch Full HD IPS, 4GB RAM, 16GB SSD) so much I’ve purchased them as gifts for both my husband and step-father. Now with this Aspire E, I may just have found my own new ‘favorite’ brand for the sub-six hundred price range.
For this purchase I wanted the laptop to have an Intel processor versus an AMD because in my experience they run cooler. I wanted that processor to be at least an i5, the latest generation if possible. I also wanted at least 8GB of system memory that was expandable if needed. A large hard drive wasn’t as important to me as the speed of that drive, thus a SSD was preferable, and I wanted at least 5 hours of battery life. A backlit keyboard and HD screen were also important, but I was prepared to forgo them if the price went over my target price of seven-hundred.
My daughter’s wishes tended to be less techy, but just as important in our search for the best laptop to meet her needs for the next four years. She has previously used a lower-end (about three-hundred when new) HP laptop for the past four years; one motherboard replacement covered under Square Trade warranty, and a Chromebook with an 11” screen. In this purchase she wanted a laptop that included a 15.6” screen, a DVD drive (I tried to talk her out of that one because I never use them anymore, but she wanted one to burn CDs and DVDs), and an Ethernet jack; the dorms are older and have wired internet where she’ll be attending college.
So after much searching I happened to notice this newly released Acer Aspire E 15. The price on Amazon is the same as on the Acer website, and those are the only two places I saw it. When I noticed the incredible specs and how well they matched both our desires for this purchase, I was thrilled!
The price for this laptop is so low by comparison to others with similar specs (particularly with an SSD and such stellar battery life – estimated at 12 hours), that I had to bite on this one. I also purchased a 3 year Square Trade drops, spills, etc… warranty for another one-ten that I’ve found to be cheap insurance on these purchases, especially when the owner is a teen.
I will be adding the Microsoft Office Suite (eighty bucks for 4 years with an EDU email address) and using this laptop for only a short time before giving it to my daughter these are my impressions. Hope you find them helpful when deciding if this laptop is for you.
The bottom line from my point of view is that the low price for great specs with a quality build is incredible. I’ve found no other laptop available on the market that matches up to this Acer when you compare the price to the perks!
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What I like about the Acer Aspire E15:
+ It’s whisper quiet! I could barely tell this laptop was even on; no fan noise, and didn’t get hot at all.
+ Beautiful HD (1920×1080, 16:9 ratio) 15.6” screen – movies and games look great. It’s a matte finish so there’s really no glare or reflection off the screen in bright light. Viewing straight on is best, offering a sharp, bright picture whether you’re viewing media or text.
+ 256 SSD Flash Memory is the best! Really noticeable speed bump when booting the PC and going from one application to another.
+ NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2GB of dedicated DDR5 VRAM – a dedicated graphics card in a laptop at this low price point is unheard of!
+ 6-cell 2800 mAh battery – lots of battery life if you use BATTERY SAVER function. Brightness adjustments will affect the battery life you get with all laptops – including this one.
+ Precision Touchpad works better than expected. It might even be too responsive for some, but you can tweak that in Settings within Windows 10. Pinch, flick, and swirl for intuitive navigation – similar to using an iOS device.
+ Latest in technology (1) USB 3.1 port – (Type C) not found on all laptops. It’s a connector that is ‘ the size of current USB connectors and you can’t screw up plugging in the cable as it doesn’t matter which side is up. A great way to charge all kinds of things; smartphones, battery back-ups,…
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