Acer Spin 5 SP515-51GN-807G User Reviews and Ratings

This is so versatile and I love how much I can do with this machine. Amazing!!❤️

I love this computer. It keeps up with my gaming, with no lag. The only issue I have experienced is that it does tend to heat up. A laptop desk with a fan built in solves the problem.

Excellent computer. Versatile and practical!

[SP515-51GN - 15.6" i7-8550U GTX1050 Model]Simply put, this is a great buy! Pros: GTX1050 graphics are a great match for the 1920x1080 display. (And any higher resolutions, e.g. 4K, are pretty much wasted at this screen size. (I'm comparing to a Dell Precision 5510 with a 15.6" 4K touchscreen.) i7-8550U CPU is a reasonable compromise for power and efficiency. 1TB HDD is OK, but you can add a NVME M.2 drive to use as the primary boot drive which is very nice indeed. Keyboard is very good _and_ it has a keypad which make it special indeed. The USB ports/HDMI/SD card interface are good with a caveat - no Thunderbolt. Touchscreen and touchpad both work well as does the fingerprint reader for logging into WIndows. Cons: 8GB RAM is non-expandable. While 8GB is sufficient for normal use, you're not going to be able to run more than a 1 VM if you care about such things. Screen is very glossy and, since it's a touchscreen, really shows the fingerprints. No Thunderbolt 3 on the USB-C 3.1 port. Probably not that big a deal - the only reason I can see for it would be to support a higher-end external GPU, which is only an issue if this was your only machine. Neither Pro nor Con: It's a stretch to use this as a tablet given it's size. But the convertible feature does allow you to use a 15.6" laptop in spaces you normally wouldn't be able to, e.g. on a plane. The screen has a ~1cm bezel around it - but this is a trade off for the keypad. It's physically slightly bigger than my Dell Precision 5510, but the weight is about the same.As far as I can tell, the SP515-51GN is exactly the same as the gamer-oriented Nitro Spin 5, aside from the color of the case and keyboard. (But the HDD/SDD configurations may vary - I'd go for any 16GB RAM machine, since the HDD/SDD can the upgraded, but the RAM can't.)

This is probably one of the best 2-in-1 you can get for the specs and price; however, it gets hot and loud rather fast due to the gpu and thin case, so despite having a GTX 1050 I really don't suggest gaming on this unless you don't mind having a radiator for a laptop. It also thermal throttles really badly when gaming.

I've had this computer for the last 6ish months now and for all intents and purposes, its a fine computer but I have some qualms with it.Positives: Touch sensitivity and screen are great really can't fault it. Plays all of the games I want it to and more and is great for productivity.Negatives: The Acer brand stylus does not work on my model. Didn't work out of the box, didn't work when I was trouble shooting, didn't work when I reinstalled the drivers to connect to the pen, didn't work trouble shooting with acer, and at the point they said to do a wipe of the computer and it still didn't work and I was extremely disappointed. 4 different Acer brand stylus pens used as I bought and returned all of them as none of them would connect up. The problem was "solved" by using a microsoft surface pen at very least so thats what it is.Also, this being a HDD only as sold, expect some EXTREMELY SLOW boot up times in comparison to what it could be. ~5 minute average boot up is not acceptable to me and while a plan to upgrade to an SSD was definitely in my plans I didn't want it to be as soon as it was. There is a free M.2 slot that can slot in an SSD, and I popped in a 1TB crucial and cloned over the OS and it changes the whole game of this computer.TL;DR good computer, but don't plan on using acer stylus and do plan on getting an SSD ASAP