Acer Aspire Vero AV15-51 15.6 Inch Laptop - (Intel Core i5-1155G7, 16GB, 512GB SSD, Full HD Display, Windows 11, Grey, 30 Percent PCR Chassis)

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It features a roomy if somewhat dim display and a comfortable if somewhat quirky keyboard wrapped up in a youthful, eco-friendly design. And like Acer’s better budget and mid-range plastic laptops, the casing flex is not excessive — just a little if you press down fairly hard on the keyboard. inch laptop like Aspire Vero ought to have room to accommodate a bigger battery for a longer runtime. Sustainable packaging - the Aspire Vero's packaging swaps plastic bags for paper sleeves and is made from 90%+ recycled paper, as well as being 100% recyclable again. Kick drums sound like someone lightly tapping on a piece of cardboard, but the sound otherwise is not too bad, with enough mid-range to avoid the thin audio you want to avoid.

However, as the Vero uses a standard cooling setup, you will hear that higher pitch sound of a smaller diameter fan working hard. The Acer Aspire Vero does not have a deep dish meaty keyboard, or one of those contentious ultra-shallow ones. It’s got a 1080p OLED display that delivers stunning contrast, and in most other areas its specification matches the Acer Aspire Vero.If you’d like an affordable everyday notebook with some extra environmental nous, then the Vero’s Core i5 model is a contender – it’s well-balanced and effective. Of course, the somewhat non-unique nature of its lofty claims hasn’t stopped Acer from branding the Vero as an eco-minded laptop up and down. The new Intel Core i7-1195G7 processor inside the Vero represents the top of the line of Intel’s Tiger Lake mobile processor range. It’s not as annoying as these programs sometimes are — I wasn’t bombarded with annoying Norton popups and Acer Jumpstart ads — but I did still have to uninstall a bunch of junk.

Mike Jennings has been a tech journalist for more than thirteen years, and he covers a wide range of topics, from gaming laptops and graphics cards to consumer software, business machines and high-end desktops. Almost a year later, Acer has refreshed its sustainability-focused laptop in some significant if not always obvious ways. Every laptop in this comparison makes use of integrated graphics—either Intel's newer Iris Xe silicon or AMD's Radeon integrated GPU.

There's a distinct lack of bass, but that's typical for affordable laptops, and the chassis doesn't vibrate as it sometimes does on the cheapest laptops and Chromebooks.

It’s a chip you don’t often see in the wild — many of the big players of the portable laptop market, such as the Lenovo Yoga 9i, max out at a Core i7-1185G7, which is a step below.

The i5-1155G7 in the cheaper model isn’t much different, with the same core count but slower speeds. PCR plastic - the Aspire Vero's body is made from 40% Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) plastic, which reduces CO2 emissions by over 30% compared to 'virgin' plastic. Sure — that’s good and also true of plenty of other Acer laptops, including the Swift 3 and the Nitro 5. And there were other dings here and there — the lid on my unit was bent oddly in the middle such that it didn’t fully close all the way, I occasionally heard some internal rattle when I was typing, and leaning on the palm rests sometimes depressed the touchpad. The trackpad is roomy and even includes a fingerprint scanner to let you log in without typing your password via Windows Hello.