Acer Aspire V 17 VN7-793G-709A Review

The Acer Aspire V 17 VN7-793G-709A is a high-end gaming/multimedia 17 inch laptop, also known as the Nitro Black Edition Gaming. As its name suggest, this machine is built and designed to offer the ultimate entertainment experience, making for a solid desktop replacement with enough oomph to handle the latest games, together with the most demanding applications like video editing software, due to its state of the art hardware components. The combination of a 17 inch screen, decent price and upper mid-end/high end hardware solutions makes for the Acer Aspire V 17 VN7-793G-709A to be a highly sought after machine for certain consumers, so let’s take a look at the tech details, in order to help you with your next purchase.

 
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Specs

Processor: 7th Generation Intel Core i7-7700HQ

Memory: 16GB DDR4 2400MHz Dual Channel

Storage: 256GB SSD plus 1TB HDD

Screen: 17.3″

OS: Windows 10 Home

Benefits

-the high end hardware platform, especially the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, makes the Acer Aspire V 17 VN7-793G-709A to play in the “jack of all trades” category, which means the laptop is powerful enough to play any modern game at the highest settings, but also to handle 4K content for VR (virtual reality) apps
-the build quality is flawless and everything runs buttery smooth
-the design is sober and rather minimalist for a gaming laptop, i.e. it doesn’t scream “look at me” like similar products on the market
-the display is excellent, the speakers are good, the battery adequate and, best of all, the laptop runs fairly cool even in CPU/GPU demanding applications

Downsides

-performance comes at a cost, in this case weight, as the Acer Aspire V 17 VN7-793G-709A can feel a tad on the heavy side on occasion
-battery life is not great, but that’s to be expected from a desktop replacement laptop
-the keyboard is not suited for prolific writers due to its low travel keys

Verdict

The Acer Aspire V 17 VN7-793G-709A is one of the better laptops on the market if you’re looking for a reasonably priced 17 inches gaming/multimedia laptop, with solid build quality and lots of features. The hardware platform can handle basically anything you throw at it, and due to its sober aesthetics, this laptop can be described as a fairly practical machine to use both at home and, why not, at your office. The screen is excellent and the modern hardware specs make for a very interesting (portable) gaming system.

 
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