Acer Nitro 16 AN16-41 Review: Affordable gaming laptop with RTX 4050 and long run times

[Redaktion]

A Ryzen 5 7535HS, GeForce RTX 4050, USB 4, and a bright 16:10 display (16-inch, WUXGA, 165 Hz, G-Sync) are the highlights of the relatively inexpensive (€1,250) Nitro 16. Under the right conditions, the already very good battery run times of the predecessor further surpassed. This review evaluates the performance and other characteristics of this alternate configuration.

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[wanttoknow]

Thanks for the review!

[NikoB]

A screen with poor color accuracy - the author could not even calibrate it in hardware with dE below 2! Deprecated fhd resolution...

I would like to understand - where did USB40 come from? According to the specs on the 7535HS, it does NOT have USB40 ports built into the SoC, unlike the Zen4 Phoenix:
www.amd.com/en/product/12946

The laptop is extremely disgustingly optimized - the ddr5 4800 memory runs at 65% of the theoretical limit for 4800. Despite the increased heat, the laptop is noisy in the office load and surfing. And this problem is again poor optimization of Zen3+ in Idle mode - the laptop consumes 20W instead of 5-10.

The speakers produce mediocre sound.

Well, to top it all off, a terrible keyboard, as always with Acer with a damaged numpad, where instead of the normal "Insert" there is a truncated button, and on its half there is an right arrow button,  which immediately destroys fast blind typing and navigation through the numpad, as well as numerical/group operations.

Given the outdated processor almost 2 year age and the most primitive discrete gpu, the laptop is definitely not worth the money.

It would be worth it if there was at least 32Gb RAM/4TB SSD from the factory. But this is not the case, and the $300 mark-up is clearly too high.

The red price for it is $950-1000 today. But who is this laptop made for, Acer? As a universal one, it is not suitable - a bad keyboard with a damaged numpad (and also a narrowed Esc row, F1..F12, as always). And for games 4050 is a waste of money.

Someone can buy a laptop at sales in the fall for $750-800, or maybe not...

[John.q]

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Well, to top it all off, a terrible keyboard, as always with Acer with a damaged numpad, where instead of the normal "Insert" there is a truncated button, and on its half there is an right arrow button,  which immediately destroys fast blind typing and navigation through the numpad, as well as numerical/group operations.

Given the outdated processor almost 2 year age and the most primitive discrete gpu, the laptop is definitely not worth the money.

It would be worth it if there was at least 32Gb RAM/4TB SSD from the factory. But this is not the case, and the $300 mark-up is clearly too high.

The red price for it is $950-1000 today. But who is this laptop made for, Acer? As a universal one, it is not suitable - a bad keyboard with a damaged numpad (and also a narrowed Esc row, F1..F12, as always). And for games 4050 is a waste of money.

Someone can buy a laptop at sales in the fall for $750-800, or maybe not...

Problem is there aren't much alternatives...
Some manufucters ditched numpad completely (i couldn't EVER accept that on my keyboard), others are mixing old and new components just because they had it in the factory (old Intel/AMD cpus and new Nvdia gpus).... We'll never get a very good laptop because no one care enough to make one, they just care about making money. So let's just put weird leds everywhere, with full customizable rgb keys that sure will appeal 13 yo... Who cares that speakers are worse than a decade ago or that the display is really bad....

[NikoB]

We'll never get a very good laptop because no one care enough to make one, they just care about making money.

The accelerating debilitation of the planet's population is to blame. The dumber the bulk of consumers, the easier it is to make a margin out of thin air on them, and not to achieve this through conscientious work and the quality of goods. Everything, including education systems even in developed countries, is focused on creating the ideal stupid consumer with controlled pattern thinking, and not a critical thinker with all-round knowledge. Such citizens are dangerous for corporations and of course for the powerful kleptocracy.