Acer Aspire 5 A515-56 15.6 inch Laptop - (Intel Core i5-1135G7, 8GB, 1TB SSD, Full HD Display, Windows 10, Silver) - Amazon Exclusive

This was an upgrade from a HP Pavilion laptop, and instantly I knew I’d made the right choice .... I spent months lost in the world of laptops, not knowing which to opt for. It's absolutely perfect for my daily use, its fast, efficient, the battery is ok, but could possibly be better, I don't think I could go all day from fully charged, ... and touch wood it hasn't crashed yet ! There is nothing more annoying than a laptop crashing all the time. For just shy of £700 this is a really nice high specification laptop.UPDATE - 07/02/2022Weirdly the following day after posting this review, i closed the laptop lid as i have been doing from new, but this time it didn't go into "Sleep Mode" .... i came back to it a couple of hours late and nearly burnt my hands it was that hot, It hadn't helped that i'd slipped it into a laptop sleeve, any longer and only god knows what might have happened ! .... a couple of days later while watching a downloaded film, it "Blue Screen Crashed" .... OMG ! What the hell is going on here ?

This is my 5th Acer, but the first bought from new. The options are quite confusing now, but this model met all my requirements including price. I checked and charged it when it arrived, then began the set up process a week later (it was a birthday present). After using it for about a week, the screen flashed off in the middle of a document.Everything was dead, just a single bar of light at the top of the screen flashing different colours. I could not even turn it off. After a fairly long session with Amazon help (Thanks Ronnie) the decision was to return it to Acer, which I arranged immediately.The next morning the battery had run down and the laptop was off.I plugged it in, switched it on, and everything has been fine since!Just a glitch, annoying, but not fatal. I could have just returned it to Acer anyway, but the process was cancelled by agreement, and that suits me because I would have had to go through the set up processes again.If it goes wrong again, Acer already know about it.An interesting lesson, Computers are complex and are quite capable of having a hiccup. Shut down and restart often works - even in these circumstances!

UPDATE: I was eventually able to install several flavours of Linux on this laptop just not Linux Mint as I originally intended. Instead I have the even better Zorin16 on it and it works beautifully. Better than Windows by a mile and free. This just reinforces the 5 stars I originally gave it.End of update.I'm an IT pro with several high spec laptops all using Windows 7 and 10. I brought this because I hate Windows 10 and wanted to use this as my first adventure into the better, faster and free LINUX operating system. Unfortunately after many attempts and a lot of research the Acer would not allow LINUX to be installed!Instead I installed LINUX on an older but higher spec HP at the *first attempt!*As for using this machine with Windows 10 - its good, well made, good screen and fast for an Intel i5. Only thing I really really don't like is the power button replacing the delete key on the keyboard instead of being a seperate button. As a coder I use the delete key often alas this is how many manufacturers are doing it not just Acer.I haven't tested the battery life as I'm usually plugged in.By pre Covid prices it is a bit expersive but based on today it is good value for money.As for ease of use - don't like the power button but otherwise its fine.All-in-all though, a good laptop.

The media could not be loaded.  I bought this knowing it was a refurb hence the lower price but I didn't expect it to crash so often ! At first I thought the reason it was turning off and restarting without warning was because it was updating, frustrating as it would have been good to have some warning but then it started to freeze and then restart, final straw was the fan working over time then it shut off and went back to the start screen. I did call amazon who were helpful in that they suggested I take it to be repaired myself, think it's better to just pay full price for a new one. The fingerprint reader wouldn't recognise my finger print and I was disappointed with the battery life. It was easy enough to set up so as a computer it's great, just need a more reliable device.

I've had the computer for a while, I can honestly say that it is a vast improvement on my old one, in every department. It's so nice not to gave to keep it plugged in, as the battery easily lasts all day. To be honest, I don't use the computer that much, so the battery lasts forever! It boots up so quickly, the screen is big enough for all my needs and once you're online, I'm finding that any downloads I've made have been SO much quicker than on the old machine. It's got all the ports you could need and I love how light it is, never had a computer I can walk around with it in my hand before. I will be buying another one for a friend in a few months time, that's how much trust, faith and enjoyment I have in and am getting from this machine.

This is much faster and more powerful than my previous Acer 5. The i5 processor multi tasks well. The webcam is much better than I expected, after seeing some other laptops. Keyboard and touchpad are very responsive and easy to configure. The Acer Aspire 5 fan runs very quietly and only occasionally needs to operate in medium power mode.The screen is excellent for everything I've used, including pictures and videos. Speakers have improved since the previous version too. Overall it's a good 'all rounder' and more than adequate for most applications. Definitely recommend it as a well equipped, good value laptop.

Great laptop but needs a light to easily see when caps lock is on. Also the setting should be that the functions keys work without pressing “fn” key. Or an easy toggle to make they change.I had to go into bios to fix. Otherwise great.

Brilliant Laptop.Work well, very fast, easy to set upOnly cons are the lack of usb ports and no Micro or SD card slot - that was fixed with a USB card reader though.