Starting off with the most holistic benchmark, the PC Mark 10, we can see that the Acer Aspire 5 gives us a score of around 5148, along with a gaming score of 5527, which is pretty decent in its ...

There's a lot to like about the Acer Aspire 5 (starts at $399, $629 as tested). You get a 15.6-inch low-cost desktop-replacement laptop with a peppy Intel Core i5 processor, a generous 12GB of memory, ...

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While it’s thicker and heavier than we’d like and it suffers from an iffy display, the Optane memory-equipped Acer Aspire 5 delivers impressive quad-core performance for hundreds less than its ...

You pays your money. And you takes your choice. So it goes with the huge array of the best laptops on the market. However, it really can be baffling trying to spot where the value really lies – ...

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