With its affordable price, decent performance, and robust build, the Acer Aspire 5 is a great budget option for most people. Are you in the market for Windows laptop? Don’t want to spend more than ...

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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 ...

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