Battery Life, Pricing, and Conclusion

Battery Life

As you might expect for a machine geared towards gaming, the battery life on the Aspire V Nitro isn't outstanding. In our web browsing benchmark, the Aspire managed to survive for 3 hours and 10 minutes. While obviously not as long as the ultrabook computers we have been looking at as of late, over 3 hours is a at least a decent result for a laptop of these specifications.

Pricing

The version of the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro Black Edition that we looked at here (VN7-591G-70RT) is availble on Amazon.com for $899 at the time of writing.  This doesn't fall into the realm of budget notebooks but for the game performance and general component selection it offers, the pricing is aggressive.

Conclusion

For under $900, the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro Black Edition seems to be a great option for someone looking for a notebook that is capable of playing games, but won't break the bank. If you're only concerned about gaming on the integrated 1080p panel, or an external display of the same resolution, the Aspire V Nitro will be able to handle just about any game with resonable image quality settings.

The build quality of the Aspire V Nitro is impressive for the price range, and it feels like a machine that seems like it will keep going for serveral years.

While looking at buying one of these notebooks, we would highly reccommend choosing a SKU that includes an SSD or adding your own M.2 SSD after the fact in order to make your day-to-day experience of general productivity and browsing a more enjoyable.

Overall, the Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro Black Edition is a great midrange gaming laptop, and brings tough compeition to sub-$1000 laptop market.

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