acer Aspire 3 A315-24P-R2SC Slim Laptop | 15.6" Full HD IPS Display | AMD Ryzen 5 7520U Quad-Core Processor | AMD Radeon Graphics | 8GB LPDDR5 | 256GB NVMe SSD | Wi-Fi 5 | Windows 11 Home

The Acer Aspire 15 has been a super great laptop. It's probably one of the best tech purchases I have ever made and I'm an IT guy. I paid about $350 USD for this one and am very happy with the purchase. The last time I was searching for a Laptop I returned 5 laptops before I was satisfied so I'm pretty picky. This was for my wife but I use it at night when I'm not in my office sometimes. Storage & Upgrades: Although it only comes with 128gb SSD & 4gb RAM it's no big deal for about $100 you can upgrade to 20gb RAM and 2tb HDD + 128gb SSD. I love that you can run dual drives. 1 SSD + 1 HDD. I added a 2TB HDD for Data Storage for $50, it came with the bracket in the box, and it didn't void the warranty, like on my LG Gram. The 128gb SSD is functioning as a Boot Drive. I also added a 16gb module for about $50 and now have 20gb RAM. The upgrades were pretty straightforward and you can use normal small screwdrivers. Performance: It boots up super fast, maybe 10 seconds to reach the sign in screen and 2 seconds to log in. Web pages and programs load quickly. We use it for Web browsing, Word, PowerPoint & Excel. I'm not doing video editing or high performance gaming on this but it runs almost as fast as my i5 LG Gram that cost $1500 with all SSD drives. It doesn't get too warm but we do have it on a fan stand, but I don't usually plug it in because for some reason the USB keeps powering the fan after it powers down, and I can't find a BIOS setting to turn this off. I notice that it gets a little warm when sitting directly on a table. I usually can't hear the fan at all. Sometimes you can hear it kick on when you open up 15 tabs and a bunch of apps. Screen: The screen is really nice too. It's 1080 Full HD so you don't see the pixels like on a normal 15" Standard HD screen. I think it's average brightness but we use it indoors so it's plenty bright for our needs. Keyboard: I love the Keyboard, it's much better than the keyboard on my LG Gram, and just as good as the best keyboards I have tested in BestBuy from Lenovo. It's wonderful to type on. It's backlit as well so that's nice plus. And I love the Number Pad, even though the number pad is a little skinner than the other keys. Fingerprint ID: It's super fast and I didn't know how much I would love it! Speakers: The speakers are fine. They are loud enough to watch YouTube videos and the news but it won't compete with a home stereo system. Ports: It has plenty of full size ports: 3 USB, 1 USB C, 1 Full HDMI a headphone jack and even a RJ-45 Ethernet Port! I hate dongles so it's nice that you don't need one for this laptop. I would have liked to see a MicroSD reader but my wife doesn't SD Cards it so it's no big deal for her. Window 11: It comes with Windows 11s but is very easy to switch to standard Windows 11. I was a little concerned about this and it almost made me not go for this laptop. But it's no big deal, as soon as you try to install something "non Microsoft" like Google Chrome it says something like, "If you want to install non-Microsoft software, you have to switch to full Windows 11 mode. Are you sure? You will loose all the exclusive Microsoft Security with Windows 11s Mode." But you just click, "Yes" and it switches, it may require a reboot but I can't remember. Battery: The battery is average. We usually leave it plugged in on the desk but the few times that we have used it without a battery we used it for a few hours and it remained at 70% battery. Windows 11 doesn't estimate the time remaining so I really don't know for sure how long it would last. I'd guess it would go from 100% to 10% in about 5-6 hours for Netflix, YouTube or web browsing or MS Office apps. Again, I really love this laptop. I keep telling my wife how impressed I am with the performance, storage upgrade options, keyboard, screen, etc. She doesn't really care that much as long as it works fast and does what she wants so I decided I had to tell all of you Amazon people that this is a great laptop for 95% of normal people who just want something that works well and is a good price. I highly recommend the acer aspire 15 and would buy it again, no regrets!

I got the Acer Aspire 5 A515-46-R3UB when it was on sale for less than three hundred and fifty. I couldn't be happier with the value of this purchase. This laptop has excellent build quality, a quiet backlit keyboard, speedy processor, tons of ports, lovely 15.6" monitor, and more. It has been reviewed to death so there's not a whole lot more to say that hasn't already been put out there. Suffice to say that for a budget laptop, it rocks. It's not perfect. You can't really do any serious gaming on it if that's your thing. The speakers are decent but don't get very loud. Battery life is just okay. And, uh, ...that's about it. It really is a good laptop. For web browsing, office work, videos, and general use, it is great. I wish there were more than 4MG RAM and a 128GB SSD included, but for the price and way I use it, it works! I recently got another lappy from a no name brand that was $350 and isn't on the same level as the Acer. I'm very happy I got it. ~ Kort

I'm far from a computer expert. I bought this computer for work because my job requires me to use a couple of different specific software programs. I needed a computer with a lot of storage, a fairly large screen, a numerical keypad, and most importantly, a cheap price tag. This computer has all of those things. I don't do any gaming or anything really sophisticated on it. Just work and some internet browsing. It boots up quickly and has been running smoothly so far. My biggest complaint is that it came with a lot of Microsoft bloatware that I hadn't experienced on my other laptops and by default it uses your Microsoft OneDrive for storage instead of the computer's SSD. The first time I logged onto the computer it asked me to either sign up for a Microsoft account or login to an existing one. My job requires me to take a lot of photos, so I was saving my photos to the computer without realizing it was uploading to my cloud storage account. That was an annoyance because I had to figure out how to switch that off. I unintentionally used up all of my cloud storage space because I didn't realize the system was set up that way. Once I figured out how to fix it, I was good to go. Also, the computer essentially comes in a "safe mode" which limits a lot of what you can do. It is designed for you to only use apps from the Microsoft app store and not download any software from any other source. It can be turned off, but it is another annoyance. I feel like they were trying to make it like their version of a Chromebook, but that makes it just as annoying as a Chromebook. Overall, it is a great computer once you get past all the Microsoft stuff.

This laptop was unfortunate enough to be bought by a gamer, and yet it's still standing, rage quit fueled keyboard smashes and all. I'm surprised how much abuse this thing has taken but come out completely unscathed. It's a really nice little computer, it just gets a little whiny when you try to put Sims 4 (with tons of expansion packs on it) but it runs Goat Simulator, Untitled Goose Game, Robocraft, Undertale, Doki Doki Literature Club, etc. without any issues. I have not tried World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Valorant, Overwatch, or Minecraft on this, so you'll have to test it out yourself. I have no complaints about this laptop, it's now somehow my school computer AND a bit of a gaming laptop. I've taken it everywhere, even to the hospital. The speakers are great, it doesn't heat up quickly or that bad, the fan doesn't overwork itself, the memory is nice and spacious, it's very fast when loading anything, especially while booting up, and I'm even writing this review on it. The keyboard is nice and thin but not too thin. It's definitely worth the money, even more imo. There is a built-in camera, and it's not that bad. Oh, and the audio quality is apparently *chef's kiss* according to the boys on discord. It runs discord beautifully, btw. Screensharing is easy with this computer. I couldn't get OBS to run very smoothly on this laptop, so I'll have to troubleshoot that. Otherwise, this is probably THE perfect laptop. 98/10, genuinely. This computer has become a vital part of my life, it's basically another one of my internal organs at this point. I'd buy several of these. Why several? I don't know, it's just that good of a computer, I guess. *shrug*

Overall: Great VALUE. Easy to Upgrade. Simple, & Quick. Very Happy Pros: Quick. Easy. Cheap. Performant. Cons: None yet (only 3-4 days in) - Not a touchscreen as others have commented Details: Very happy with this great deal. It's not meant to be a gaming laptop and it's not. But if you read a few reviews its TOP notch value. I bought and immediately: 1) Disabled Windows S mode which is FREE to do and takes < 5 minutes after googling and 2) Upgraded memory to the below to add an additional 16 GB. This was takes about 15-25 minutes end 2 end including watching a YouTube video on how to do. 16GB may have been too much and an additional 4 or 8 on top of the soldered in 4 GB probably would have been enough. Purchased DDR4 RAM: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YNF3KY4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Overall, highly recommend for a quick, cheap, and performant laptop! I don't expect it to last forever, or game, or crunch heavy data - but I'm not using it for those things. If you want to navigate the web with many tabs open, watch Netflix, write documents, or crunch simple / medium spreadsheets you'll be fine with this. Again, only a few days in so unsure how quality will last. But happy for now!

It's a budget laptop. But, it's a GOOD budget laptop. It's a 5 star BUDGET laptop. It's a 3 star laptop overall, but in the ~300 range, these are hard to beat. So it's 5 stars in this range I used to buy expensive computers. The hassle of upgrading them every 2 years isn't worth it to me anymore. Now I buy cheap computers and use them for 3 years or so. The ACER this replaced was still very usable after ~2 years, but I dropped it and that was that. It wasn't slowing down to a crawl, battery was starting to get a bit weak but they all do. Was a time I turned my nose up at ACER products. Either I'm lucky with the last 2 purchases or they've come a long way. I've had this one about a year now. I bought it used (very good condition) through Amazon and I could tell it had been used, but used very little. Even came with a soft ACER case (probably a $25 item) and it's well worth the $289 I paid for it.

Wow, I bought this as a budget computer for travel, as I was not comfortable traveling with my main laptop, ASUS Tuf with a Ryzen 7 and lots of software. So I bought this ACER Aspire, knowing it was a little light on SSD and RAM. For daily use, email and web, it is perfect. I ask a little more as I do Vector art, video editing and graphics, so added an additional SSD and 8 gigs of RAM. This machine is super easy to upgrade! OK, so it has a Ryzen 3. This CPU is comparable to Intel 7 of a couple 2020 according to bench marks. What it lacks in cores it makes up for in speed. Same applies to onboard graphics. It's not a gaming machine, the graphics for anyone else are outstanding. Battery life is excellent, I run the Acer Care software and limit the battery charging to 80% to save it. I get 5 hours on 80 %. Glad I bought it!!

I'm a longtime Acer user and I bought this Acer laptop because I liked that it had a second hard drive bay and I wanted to install the hard drive from my old Acer laptop in the bay so I could run my Linux OS rather than the windoze virus. Pros: The Machine looked nice and was relatively inexpensive. Cons: 1) The stumblebums at Acer have changed their BIOS so that all you can boot out of the box is the windoze virus pre-installed on the laptop. 2) The fan is incredibly loud and runs continuously! I contacted their support people, first by chat and then by phone, they were useless, so I tried to talk to someone higher up in their hierarchy, which was also useless. I finally managed to lodge a complaint about this problem after demanding to file a complaint several times and got a case #, of which I doubt I'll ever hear anything back on, and if I do, it'll probably be some garbage that doesn't answer my question. I also researched workarounds online, but there weren't many viable looking options, as it looks like a few people who'd managed to sneak around the windows virus EUFI by jumping through several hoops to rewrite the windows virus boot info had problems with the touchpad and slow performance afterwards. Rather than spending an afternoon trying to work around something that used to be easily accomplished in the older versions of the Acer BIOS, I decided to return the useless machine and buy a punching bag and an Acer logo sticker to put on it so I can take out my frustration. Bottom Line: If you're an enlightened Linux user, DO NOT BUY ACER!!! If you want a nice quiet machine, DO NOT BUY THIS LOUD AND CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING FAN LAPTOP!!! If they send me an apology and fix this BIOS disaster that they've created (probably to coddle up to the evil Microsoft virus company) I may decide to change my mind, and will let you know in an update to this post. Thanks for reading this review, I hope it helps.