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I've been searching for a new laptop and I've discovered this piece of gold: Acer Aspire 3 A315-41 with new Ryzen 5 2500U apu, 8 gigs of ram, 256gb SSD, 15'6 inch screen with a TN panel all for 390 euros(~450$). Usually where i live (I'm from Lithuania (Europe)) prices are extremely inflated but not this time and that's why it seems a little bit fishy to me. What have you heard about this acer model? Is it worth taking a look?

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Aspire 3 has OKish build quality, OKish input devices, mediocre TN panel, mediocre battery life, outdated ports selection, OKish cooling. You pay what you get

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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24 minutes ago, Instrange said:

I've been searching for a new laptop and I've discovered this piece of gold: Acer Aspire 3 A315-41 with new Ryzen 5 2500U apu, 8 gigs of ram, 256gb SSD, 15'6 inch screen with a TN panel all for 390 euros(~450$). Usually where i live (I'm from Lithuania (Europe)) prices are extremely inflated but not this time and that's why it seems a little bit fishy to me. What have you heard about this acer model? Is it worth taking a look?

I seconf what ZM Fong says. Acer is decidedly "meh", but if it fits your needs, and you can live with the screen....why not?

NOTE: I no longer frequent this site. If you really need help, PM/DM me and my e.mail will alert me. 

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57 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Aspire 3 has OKish build quality, OKish input devices, mediocre TN panel, mediocre battery life, outdated ports selection, OKish cooling. You pay what you get

Which laptop is better? ASUS VivoBook K570UD or ASUS FX504GD? 

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1 hour ago, Instrange said:

Which laptop is better? ASUS VivoBook K570UD or ASUS FX504GD? 

Neither

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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9 hours ago, Instrange said:

why?

Major issues

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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